Bifrost Program
The Bifrost Program is designed to provide adolescents and their families with an intensive, home-based, short-term intervention. The Bifrost Program provides the opportunity for family members to explore alternative methods of relating to one another and to enhance their problem-solving skills in a supportive environment. [Family is defined broadly to include birth, step or adoptive parents, extended family members, foster parents, or resource care staff.
The program runs for three and a half months. The typical hours of service are from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Monday to Friday, although there is some flexibility based on the needs of the family. The program runs entirely in the youth’s home community with the exception of the Maples Connect Parenting Group, which operates out of the Maples site in Burnaby.
The program has three main components:
- Family therapy where the youth and their parents will meet to explore and resolve conflict or problem solve issues affecting the family;
- Connect Parenting group where parents meet with the parents of other youth enrolled in the program to learn how to apply an attachment- based framework to their parenting practice;
- Ongoing support for the youth in four broadly defined life spaces: Education, Vocation, Recreation, and Social/Family life.
The general goal of the program is to increase each family's capacity for constructive problem-solving and for supporting its members in moving toward life goals. This is done within the context of each youth's environment with an emphasis on maintaining and enhancing existing relationships.
Access to the Bifrost Program is limited to families living in the Lower Mainland and the Central Okanagan. Admission enquiries to this latter program should be directed to the Kelowna Child and Youth Mental Health Office.
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