Building on this foundation, LMO has continued to expand its impact through child and youth mental health and wellness services, supported housing and homelessness prevention initiatives, and community inclusion services in partnership with Community Living BC. In 2020, LMO opened Kikékyelc: A Place of Belonging, a 31-unit culturally safe supported housing complex designed to improve outcomes for Indigenous youth transitioning from care. This innovative project reflects LMO’s commitment to addressing systemic barriers and creating opportunities for youth to thrive.

Today, LMO is advancing plans for a transformative 30-unit Métis family housing development that will include an on-site, trauma-informed childcare centre serving up to 112 Indigenous children and an urban Indigenous cultural center. By combining safe, affordable housing with culturally informed family support services, this initiative aims to strengthen family stability, reduce the need for child apprehensions, and promote positive parenting and child well-being. It represents another important step in LMO’s ongoing efforts to reimagine child welfare through prevention, family preservation, and culturally safe supports.

Throughout its remarkable growth and evolution, LMO’s dedicated team of 70 employees has remained guided by a shared vision: that all Métis children, youth, and families live with love, honour, dignity, and respect, knowing they belong to a strong and proud People with a unique heritage, culture, and identity. Further, our growth highlights our commitment to the principles of reconciliation where the responsibility for the safety and wellbeing of our Métis children and families is restored to our responsibility. It is our hope to welcome all Métis children, youth and families to our cultural hub, where they will be supported and exposed to a multiple array of services to that will strengthen and enhance their sense of connection and belonging to their unique cultural heritage, identity and community. For so long our People have been forgotten and/or unseen. As a Métis-specific service provider, LMO provides a holistic approach to service delivery where our cultural values, traditions and resilient spirit is woven into every service we offer.

The purpose of this Society is to:

1.  Advocate for Métis children, youth and families so that they can live with love, honour, dignity and respect knowing they belong to a strong, proud People with a unique heritage and cultural identity;

2. Work respectfully with all levels of government and to promote strong, healthy Métis children, youth and families;

3. Offer family programming and child safety services that are embedded in and delivered with love, compassion and respect;

4. Construct, hold, manage and maintain culturally safe and affordable housing options for low income or moderated income clients who are receiving or who have received services from the provincial child welfare system;

5. Ensure our services are consistent with Métis traditions, values and ways of caring for and honouring one another;

6. Cultivate and nurture a sense of belonging to one’s Métis community and cultural identity; and

7. Promote and demonstrate reconciliation in Métis child and family services

8. Construct, hold, manage and operate culturally safe and affordable childcare spaces for clients who are receiving or who have received services from the provincial child welfare system and/or the Society.