DISTRICT OF COQUITLAM.

V3K 1&8 : ; | MAYOR 3.L. TONN

October 17th, 1974

The Honourable A. B. "Macdonald, Attorney General of British Columbia, Parliament Buildings, . VICTORIA, B.C.

: ‘Dear Sir: - “The Goquitlam Family. Court Committee, in co-operation with comrnunity advisors, last winter completed a brief which led to the establishment of the. Kincaid Treatment Resource for children. The Committee now wishes to, direct its | interest and efforts towards a new

project. .

The Committee is therefore writing ‘to request that you give sponsorship to. a speaker that one of Our members met recently. Last ‘June, when Ms. Mary Kendall was‘in ‘Stockholm, the Swedish Institute arranged a study tour for her, and she had the opportunity to visita family treatment village near Stockholm. This unique and interesting facility has many advantages to recornmend it over the. traditional : treatment institution for children. The Committee feels that it would be .. worthwhile to study the possibilities of working towards ‘such a facility here in the Lower Mainland. We feel this type of program is very much ‘in line with the current government direction of treating the child in the community and in close conjunction with the family. oo

Ms. Kendall learned that ‘the Director of the Institution ‘5 Mr. ; Bengt Borjesin, with whom she spoke during her visit, was planning to make a trip to Michigan sometime during the coming yéar, and when questioned, expressed an interest in coming to British Columbia to meet with interested people here in order to discuss the method of setting up and running sucn an institution. : :

Mr. Borjesin, a psychologist, wno speaks English, worked for

a number of years for Dr. Gustav Jonsson, one of Sweden's outstanding psychiatrists, during the period when the Village was the more conventional child treatment centre, founded on the cottage concept. The physical structure was therefore available when the new Family program began

in .1972.