Our
Mission

BC Complex Kids Society amplifies family voices to advance equity, strengthen support and uphold rights through policy advocacy, while creating space for community connection and peer knowledge sharing for families raising children and youth with medical complexity—helping shift their experience from surviving to thriving.

We aim to create meaningful support for our community through resource sharing and facilitating gathering spaces. 

We aim to advocate for our children and families’ complex needs within the communities they inhabit and the disability and healthcare systems they rely on.

We aim to engage in research initiatives that enhance the care, support and quality of life for our children and families.

Back in 2017, our founder, Brenda, started a Facebook group with the humble objective of finding other families like her own. Over the years, this group has grown to more than a thousand family members from across the province. This Facebook group became a space to share encouragement, resources, stories, and even supplies with each other. It became readily apparent that families were being supported inequitably and inadequately throughout BC, and advocacy efforts naturally unfolded to bring our concerns, gaps in care, and lack of support to policymakers. In 2021, BC Complex Kids Society became a registered non-profit to further our mission for our complex kids and their families.