Thompson / Revelstoke
Ashcroft, Barriere, Clearwater, Kamloops, Lillooet & Merritt
Welcome Thompson / Revelstoke Community Members
Welcome to our page for the communities we serve. We are very pleased to have our new website up and running and are hoping over time to populate the community pages with important information for all of our caregivers. Each area we support is very unique and so it is important to us to ensure we are meeting the needs of each community. Your feedback is very important to us!
Latest Regional News
Business Side of Fostering - Fall Workshops!
Posted Sep 18, 2026
Do you want to understand your role, responsibilities and rights (from a business perspective)? Then this 4 hour course is for you! Read More
Learning Challenges and School Advocacy - A 2 Part Series
Posted Sep 18, 2026
Did you know that 10 -17 % of children aged 4-14 have a neurodevelopmental disability? Neurodiverse children and youth experience the world significantly differently than others and thus, the traditional parenting and teaching approaches do not work for these kiddos. Read More
Check out the upcoming CLN virtual workshops!
Posted Sep 17, 2026
The Caregiver Learning Network (CLN) develops accessible virtual learning opportunities to Foster Caregivers, Kinship Care Providers and Contracted Agency Caregivers. CLN enhances caregiver knowledge, skills and abilities, and helps to foster a healthy caregiving network. Read More
Meet Your Network Facilitators
Hi my name is Kari Bepple and I am the Program Coordinator for the Support To Family Care Network; I have worked out of the Kamloops area since June 2003 covering: Ashcroft, Barriere, Clearwater, Kamloops, Lillooet, Merritt, and Revelstoke, as well as supporting staff in the Cariboo, East and West Kootenay areas. It is an honor and a privilege to work with Foster Parents throughout these communities as well as working with social workers from MCFD, Delegated Aboriginal Agencies and First Nations bands and other community partners.
Fostering has changed over the last several years since I started fostering in the late 90’s. I spent lots of time volunteering on local and regional boards of the BCFFPA and appreciated the work that everyone did to help support foster parents. I always tell folks I can’t foster right now so I do the next best thing – I help educate, train and support new foster parents as well as the ones that have had quite a long career whose mentorship and friendship I have appreciated over the years. There isn’t anything harder or more rewarding than fostering! Foster parents are positively changing the lives of the children and youth they work with on a daily basis.
Kari Bepple
Hi my name is Renata Bonthoux and I am a Network Facilitator with the Support To Family Care Network. I began working at Interior Community Services in the spring of 2008. The majority of my experience in this field has been crisis focused youth work in a variety of programs which include: Youth Living, the Youth Safe House/Youth Shelter, and Youth Street Outreach supporting individuals between the ages of 13 – 24 before joining the Support to Family Care Team in November of 2015. I have also spent time with the Interior Indian Friendship Center’s Early Childhood Programs and the Phoenix Centre’s Osprey Youth Treatment Program.
Quite often in my work with youth they talk about the Foster Parents who have impacted their lives and I am excited to support the amazing individuals who care so deeply for some of our most vulnerable children and youth.
Renata Bonthoux
Hello, my name is Jessica Galbraith and I am a Network Facilitator with the Support to Family Care Network Program. I am proud to have served ICS for many years in a variety of front line services, including Supervised and Supported Visitation, various staffed resources and Kamloops Youth Shelter. I have directly cared for and supported at-risk youth and folks with diverse abilities over the years in my career. I am passionate about supporting my community and keeping our most vulnerable sector safe. I have always found this work to be challenging and highly rewarding. I practice from a client centered focus and strengths based perspective.
In this next chapter I look forward to building positive connections, supporting and walking alongside all of our skilled caregivers as we strive towards creating a healthier community.
Jessica Galbraith
