We improve resilience and well-being of families and their children who are experiencing transition, including separation and divorce.

Facilitating Change for Families

Bringing children to the forefront with the Youth Voices Initiative

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Blog

Findings and thoughts on family justice innovation, from the lab team

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November, 7, 2024

How Can Unbundling / Legal Coaching Support Clients in Mediation?

September, 25, 2024

B.C. Supreme Court confirms children’s right to have their voice heard in family dispute

September, 7, 2024

FJIL is seeking new Board members

We Are Grateful

The BC Family Justice Innovation Lab is grateful for our generous funders:

Vancouver Foundation

Giving Well

(through the Vancouver Foundation)

The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation / Innoweave
Law Foundation of BC

And for our backbone organization, the BC Courthouse Library Society.

What We Do

We are a group of lawyers, social workers and designers that are focused on improving the lives of families in BC

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Current Initiatives

Youth Voices Initiative

The Lab created a new initiative to support the well-being of youth whose families have experienced separation and divorce. Research shows that the divorce process can be very damaging for children as their well-being is closely linked to the level of conflict between their parents and other factors. In the family justice system we rarely […]

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Family Unbundled Legal Services

“Unbundling” refers to a situation where a lawyer provides limited scope services to a client, rather than providing full scope legal services… Limited scope legal services refers to a situation where a lawyer performs discrete tasks for a client, and the client handles other matters that, in a full service retainer, would form part of […]

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