Family natural SUPPORTS
An FNS approach aims to help youth decrease conflict within the family, provides counselling support, strengthens and repairs family and natural supports relationships, which would assist them in increasing their overall quality of life.
An FNS approach believes that strengthening family and natural supports relationships may be what young people need to progress in their lives and to avoid youth deciding to leave home. If professionals can work with families and youth earlier in their lives, this can increase the chances of reducing family conflict or improving relationships, which will lead to more positive results for youth.
Upstream recognizes that relationships are important to a person’s well-being, which in turn may affect how a person is able to succeed. Therefore, we are committed to a Family and Natural Supports (FNS) approach that focuses on the needs of the client to provide supports for young people and their family/natural supports whom want to improve their relationships.
FNS work recognizes that families may not know about the family resources or supports available in their community, and therefore helping them access resources is important to improving family stability.