Investing in our future.
Supporting families, children, and youth.
OUR MISSION:
Bravelight Youth Services Inc. has been providing outreach and residential placement services for youth in the care of the Ministry of Children and Family Development since 2011. We put an emphasis on providing a therapeutic culture within our homes and general programming framework. Our intention at BYS is to provide safe, secure, and supportive services for children and youth. We understand that there is no “one size fits all” solution for our children, youth, and their families. We value each person we work with as an individual with unique needs, talents, challenges, and personalities. Our aim is to help them develop the tools needed to transition and thrive in today’s complex world. Our mission is to build a brighter future for all our youth, and through them, for all of us.
OUR PHILOSOPHY:
At Bravelight, we believe that nurturing the relationships between the caregivers and our clients is the pillar on which can build our most effective results. Mentorship and the modeling of healthy productive lifestyles is very important in the Bravelight structure. We believe that youth can find a type of self-determination within the boundaries expressed by the guardians and/or social workers. At the same time, we work to provide the necessary scaffolding to help support our youth through potential setbacks. Bravelight seeks to empower children and youth to achieve their full potential both practically and emotionally so that they can be productive members of their families, communities, and society as a whole. We use a trauma informed, strength-based approach, and are equipped with many caregiver directed problem solving techniques. If it is the wish of the guardians and social workers, an importance is put on healthy reintegration of our clients into the family setting that they came from. Regardless of destination, we encourage and support children and youth in areas of self-development, self-awareness, and personal growth.
BYS - Code of Ethics
Education of Persons Regarding the Code of Ethics
BYS abides by a Code of Ethics in all its operations and practices. It is the shared professional responsibility of all BYS personnel to understand and act in accordance with this Code, and to support and promote activities, behaviors, attitudes, and practices that reflect the Code. It is also the responsibility of all personnel to inform and educate clients/participants and others in the community about the Code and its terms, when appropriate.
Bravelight Code of Ethics
• We maintain the best interests of our clients as the primary professional obligation.
• We put personal safety and freedom from harm first in our decisions regarding what constitutes the best interests of our clients.
• We respect the intrinsic worth of all persons we serve in our professional relationships with them.
• We act in ways that acknowledge both diversity and oppression and promote the reduction of systemic and institutional barriers to the wellbeing of our clients.
• We conduct our professional duties and obligations with integrity and objectivity.
• We ensure that our professional, personal, and occupational interests do not affect our relationships with clients, our judgement, or our competence.
• We protect the confidentiality of all professionally acquired information. We disclose such information only when required or allowed by law to do so, or when clients have consented disclosure.
• We promote services, programs, and the agency in ways that are consistent with this Code of Ethics, with agency policy, and with standards of practice outlined by the various accreditation and registration boards that govern our professions.
• We promote excellence and maintain competence in the delivery of services and in our professions.
• We advocate for change in the best interests of our clients and for the overall benefit of society.
This code is adapted from the Code of Ethics for the Board of Registration for Social Workers in British Columbia and has been revised.