Foundry Terrace
Drop In Hours
Wednesday: 10:30am – 5:30pm
Land Acknowledgement
Foundry Terrace and TDCSS acknowledge, with gratitude, that it resides on the traditional territory of the Ts’msyen (Tsimshian) peoples.
Welcome to Foundry Terrace!
Foundry Terrace is here to support the health and wellness needs of youth and their families. All Foundry services are free and confidential.
Foundry Terrace is operated by Terrace District Community Services Society (TDCSS). At Foundry centres, multiple service providers and organizations work together to provide a variety of services to youth ages 12-24 and their families.
Foundry Terrace operates as a safe, inclusive space for all young people, including Indigenous, POC, LGBTQ+, and Trans youth.
Foundry Terrace is part of Foundry’s network of centres across BC. Want to learn more?
Thanks to all the partner organizations that contribute to Foundry Terrace!
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Careers
Foundry Terrace Clinical Lead
The Terrace Foundry concurrent disorders clinician position provides intake, assessment, treatment and crisis intervention to young people and families attending Foundry Terrace. The Clinician will establish supportive and trusting relationships that promote mental health and wellness and reduce client risk within a stepped care model and in a walk-in basis. Foundry Terrace is an integrated youth and young adult service delivery model comprising primary health, mental health, substance use, social services and peer support.
Employment Support Assistant
The Foundry Terrace Employment and Education Support Worker works within a multi-disciplinary team, alongside an Employment and Education Specialist, in meeting the needs of youth participants in all aspects of employment, education, and career planning. This person also builds and maintains connections with local employers and educational institutions and promotes Foundry services in the community.
Youth Peer Support Worker
Peer Support Workers are people who identify as having lived/living experience of mental health, substance use, or other social challenges. They utilize their experience as their expertise, along with peer support training, and help other young people discover that they are their own expert as well. A peer support worker recognizes you as an expert in your own life and will work collaboratively with you on your goals.
The goal of peer support is to provide emotional support, acceptance, validation, and empathy regardless of circumstances. The focus is to ensure the person feels supported in their recovery and healing and are not isolated.
Family Peer Support Worker
The Family Peer Support Worker is someone with their own living or lived experience of supporting youth with mental health, substance use, or other social challenges. The Family Peer Support Worker primarily offers parents and caregivers of youth with mental health, substance use, or other social challenges assistance with service navigation, education and resource information, while providing individualized peer-based practical, emotional and social supports. Delivering services in alignment with Foundry’s service model, the Family Peer Support Worker promotes holistic family health and well-being by fostering the development of respectful, collaborative relationships with family members, youth and service providers.
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