How We Got Started

TVI came together to champion shared solutions to the program delivery challenges faced by community organizations in one of BC’s fastest growing regions. With unprecedented development underway throughout the region, now is the time to create a legacy of community programs and services able to keep pace with such rapid population growth.

It Takes a Village

TVI took root when the Sooke School District and Island Health started a conversation with community partners, recognizing that the health and wellbeing of children, youth, and families are best supported through an all-hands-on-deck approach – a Village. The urgency of our mission has only been underscored by the global pandemic and its impact on children, youth, and families. Read our Terms of Reference here.

 

 

Having an opportunity to proactively respond in partnership with schools and with a collective voice, has never been more important. Our children, youth and families are best served when we can work together and coordinate our efforts. Demands are high, needs are great. “It takes a village” now more than ever.

Dalyce Dixon, Executive Director, BGC South Vancouver Island

I am so pleased to be working with The Village Initiative to reinforce the message of implementing evidence-based strategies that will create a legacy of enhanced health and well-being for Sooke and West Shore communities.

Dave Saunders, President, Saunders Family Foundation

Community policing is at the heart of what we do. Community policing is about taking an integrative approach to providing safety services to the citizens of the West Shore.

Superintendent Todd Preston, West Shore RCMP

Communities don’t flourish in insolation. When we are engaged, inclusive and working together to support the health and wellbeing of children, youth, and families – that is how we flourish.

Ravi Parmar, Chairperson, Sooke School District Board of Education

Communities don’t flourish in insolation. When we are engaged, inclusive and working together to support the health and wellbeing of children, youth, and families – that is how we flourish.

Ravi Parmar, Chairperson, Sooke School District Board of Education

Meet The Village Initiative Community