Sea to Sky Community Services (SSCS) is asking residents, partners, and community leaders across the corridor to weigh in on its annual feedback survey before it closes on June 30.
The 16 question survey takes about five minutes to complete and is part of SSCS’s yearly effort to gather insight from the people and organizations it works with. The responses will directly shape the agency’s program planning and service delivery going forward.
In its call for feedback, SSCS pointed to a number of pressures facing communities throughout the Sea to Sky Corridor, including rapid population growth, rising costs and inflation, growing isolation, and increasing demand for support services. The organization says understanding how these issues are playing out locally will help it keep its programs relevant, accessible, and community-driven.
SSCS, based in Squamish, runs dozens of social service programs across the corridor, spanning child development, family and parenting support, youth services, adult programs, seniors’ services, housing services, and poverty law advocacy. The agency also operates the Pemberton Food Bank and Foundry Sea to Sky, a youth mental health and wellness service.
One long running offering is the Healthy Pregnancy Outreach Program, a free weekly drop-in that has supported expecting and new parents for three decades. As reported by The Squamish Reporter in May, the program draws between 20 and 30 families each Wednesday for a free lunch, a visit from a public health nurse, and a guest speaker, along with donated baby clothing, formula, and diapers. Staff said the program is a key source of social connection for parents who move to the area without an established support network, though rising costs and stagnant federal funding have forced cuts to its hours in recent years.
Feedback gathered from the survey will help shape programs, like pregnancy outreach, by informing SSCS on what’s working, what’s strained, and what’s missing across this broad range of services that SSCS offers.
Residents and community members can complete the survey here before the June 30 deadline.
