About Us
Mission Statement
The Mount Pleasant Family Centre
is a place for families with young children
to drop-in and make new friends, learn new skills,
and receive support in
times of need.
The Mount Pleasant Family Centre (MPFC) is a 'Home away from home'.
It's not a day-care but a resource
centre for both adult caregivers and their children.
The Centre's core
program is a family drop-in offered twice daily, four days per week. The
fifth day is used for structured programs. Adult visitors may socialize or
take part in a number of structured activities, while their children make
use of the supervised play areas on the second floor and outdoors.
During
the year, there are an average of more than 100 visits per day (40 adults
with 60 children). Support and programs are provided by our staff
members (click here to see our current
staff list) and a number of volunteers.
The Mount Pleasant Family Centre Society (MPFC) is a Non
Profit Organization. All
of the money received through government grants, donations, fundraising and
membership goes into running the programs we offer.
As a registered non-profit society the family centre has a constitution
which states our purpose, and bylaws that outline the rules for doing
business and how decisions are made.
Each year the Family Centre holds an Annual General
Meeting (AGM) where all members can hear about what the centre has done in
the past year and what our plans are for the future. Members are entitled to
vote on changes and direction of the organization. This is also the time
when we vote in our volunteer Board of Directors who represent the
membership as a whole and make decisions on behalf of the members
collectively. Our Board is typically made up of parents who attend the
Family Centre, and members of the community.
(Click here to see our current Board of
Directors.)
Funding for Mount Pleasant Family Centre is
currently provided by :
* Public Health Canada (PHAC)
*
BC Ministry of Children & Family Development
* BC Gaming
* Vancouver Coastal Health (Smart Fund)
* 
* Open Doors to Learning
* Memberships read more...
* Fundraising Activities
* Donations read more...
