The Council on Accreditation (COA) granted Langley Community Services Society (LCSS) a 4 year accreditation based on LCSS’ exceptional work and service delivery.  Previously LCSS was accredited for a select number of programs through CARF.  In an effort to provide more accountability to both clients and the community LCSS decided to move to the more encompassing, and exhaustive, accreditation process offered by COA.

COA has accredited 7 of LCSS’ programs: Family Place North, Family Place South, Child Care Resource & Referral, Community Counselling, Parent Outreach & Education, Family Connections, and Substance Use Services.

The Council on Accreditation (COA) is an international, independent, non-profit, human service accrediting organization.  Founded in 1977 by the Child Welfare League of America and Family Service America (now the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities), their mission is to partner with human service organizations worldwide to improve service delivery outcomes by developing, applying, and promoting accreditation standards.

COA currently accredits more than 2,200 organizations and programs serving more than 7 million individuals and families world-wide.

Langley Community Services Society assists more than 10,000 individuals and families on an annual basis to enhance their lives through the provision of programs, services and information.  LCSS is a community-based, multi-service, non-profit organization that was incorporated in 1971.  The agency has more than 40 years’ experience delivering family and community social services to Langley (Township and City) and the surrounding communities.

Langley Community Services Society is greatly appreciative of the financial support we received from Telus.  Through their “Give Where We Live” campaign, Telus employees selected LCSS as a beneficiary of their payroll deduction donations.  Telus Corporation then matched their employees’ contributions dollar for dollar.  Thank you!

BCAA and United Way joined together to generously give Langley Community Services Society 12 car seats.  The car seats have been used in 2 ways.  Six of the seats were distributed to families who participate in either our Family Place program, our CCRR program or our Early Learning program.  The remaining 5 car seats are being used by counsellors in our Family Connections program.  These counsellors work with children of all ages and sometimes that work involves driving them to appointments.

The recipients of the car seats have enthusiastically expressed their appreciation to BCAA and United Way for the gift of the car seat.  As anyone who has purchased a car seat knows, they are essential and expensive.  We were delighted to be able to help a few of our clients with this necessary expense.  Thank you to BCAA and United Way for supporting the staff and clients at Langley Community Services Society.