The SFRS Prenatal Education and Outreach Program provides pregnancy education, support, and outreach to our community for the ever-growing local family population. Our Prenatal Program offers the prenatal needs of expecting families in our community with locally accessible group prenatal classes with a low/sliding scale fee and free individual outreach support.

The prenatal classes and outreach services, as well as the social connections developed in the Prenatal Program, will provide families the opportunity to gain perinatal and postnatal education, increase awareness of community resources, and build a shared sense of community identity. This program supports outreach clients in need with prenatal and postnatal supplies and equipment such as cribs, car seats, baby bedding, baby and mom hygiene products, nutritional support, and prenatal vitamins.

This program works collaboratively with both Sooke Midwifery and Public Health supporting clients from those services that have identified need for this Sooke Family Resource Society support. The service can be accessed by referral from a service provider or through self-referral by an individual.

As the Sooke community is growing with young families, we have seen an increase in the need for this service. This critical family support is available in the Sooke community through this SFRS Prenatal Program and is the only social service, locally available, prenatal education and outreach program in the greater Sooke area.