Provincial Family Resource Networks – service provider search

Service description: Information and referral and coordination of services for Albertans.

Service description: Big Brothers Big Sisters mentoring programs are community- and school-based programs that facilitate a natural supports relationship between a young person and a caring adult or Teen mentor. Our programs are 1:1, following best practices for effective mentoring.

Service description: Healthy Families is a home visitation program providing support to parents with newborns and children aged 0-6 who are in a variety of at-risk circumstances. These circumstances can include low income, parents without family or community support, history of abuse/neglect, and parents who find it difficult to cope with day-to-day family challenges. Home Visitors visit families in their homes 1-2 times/week to strengthen existing parenting abilities and promote the development of new competencies so that parents have the knowledge and skills needed to be positive, confident parents and provide their children with experiences and opportunities that promote child learning and development.

Service description: The viewpoints program promotes youth emotional, physical, cognitive, social and emotional development to assist them in reaching their full potential. Youth have opportunities to engage in positive social activities where they learn skills that strengthen their social emotional well-being, and community connections. Youth learn skills to build positive supportive relationships with their parents, peers and other adults, to exercise their autonomy in safe, supportive contexts and to learn executive functioning skills such as emotional self-regulation, decision making and planning ahead.

Service description: Programs provide parent/caregivers holistic strategies to strengthen their protective factors with opportunities to learn from role models and benefit from the information and resources being shared. The Programs focus on building resilience, improving family relationships, and supporting mental health by increasing parenting knowledge, confidence, skills, and support networks. These programs will assist parents to support and teach their children/youth.

Service description: Information and referral and coordination of services for Albertans.

Service description: The Family Wellness Program is a voluntary, community-based, solution focused, client-centered family support service designed to assist families with children (focuses on age 7 – 17) in building healthy, resilient, self-reliant family units. The program helps families overcome challenges and build the skills necessary to ensure a safe, healthy, and resilient home.

Service description: The Athabasca Family Centre provides a welcoming space for caregivers to interact with their children and other caregivers and children. The centre is open to all families with children 0 -18 years of age and has flexible hours to allow for daytime, evening, and weekend programming to increase access. Programs are offered in the main centre in Athabasca in-person and online and in the outlying communities of Boyle, Rochester, Grassland, and Wandering River.

Service description: Home Visitation is a free and voluntary evidence-based program that works in partnership with caregivers who are prenatal and/or who have children under aged six. The focus is to support caregivers to enhance parenting skills and provide a safe, nurturing, and responsive environment for their children through exploration and building of caregiver skills, child-development, hands-on activities, referrals etc. Services are provided in home and are tailored to meet the needs of each unique family.

Service description: The Indigenous Parenting Program provides culturally oriented workshops and activities respecting traditional Cree and Metis people’s parenting practices. Together in group settings, families learn the cultural teachings surrounding child development from birth and beyond from a variety of Elders and Knowledge Keepers, while creating positive social connections.

Service description: This spoke offers programs aimed at building caregiver capacity. There are programs teaching parents about child development and what is needed for healthy social/emotional wellness for children; for families with children 7-12 years there are workshops and one-on-one supports. For families with youth there is a parent support program and youth/parent programs to develop positive communication skill

Service description: Information and referral and coordination of services for Albertans.

Service description: Providing parents & caregivers with information and strategies related to infant, child and youth developmental stages. Programs and services will focus on brain development, ensuring children and Youth meet their developmental milestones, and provide a safe, secure environment where children can thrive, succeed, and build resiliency. Our services support parents to lay a strong foundation for their child’s future success, through increased knowledge and awareness of physical health and wellbeing, communication skills, emotional maturity, social competence, language, and critical thinking.

Service description: The kiyôhkatowin Program (home visitation) works with parents and caregivers to support individual and family resiliency and wellbeing where they: • Promote and support parent-child attachment • Provide enhanced understanding of child development and developmental milestones • Provide educations and development of parenting skills

Service description: The wahkomiwew (being connected to people) works with families, children and youth to support their resiliency and wellbeing where they: • Intensive support for families dealing with issues such as addictions, mental health, involvement with Children’s Services, housing • One to one support and mentoring for youth ages 14-18 • Provide opportunities for connections to ceremony and traditional teachings

Service description: Provides a range of services and supports to help increase parent and caregiver knowledge. Services are offered to parents and caregivers with children 0-18 years of age.

Service description: Parents/caregivers will be provided with services and resources that will assist them in developing skills and confidence for a healthy, responsive family. Parent Education Services will be flexible and accommodating, this includes: one on one, group settings or online. Self-referrals and professional referrals accepted. Child/youth development and well-being programs will support intellectual growth, critical thinking skills and connection to community. Programming will be available year round with some evenings and weekends.

Service description: Information and referral and coordination of services for Albertans.

Service description: Bridges in-home intensive family support program focuses on supporting families with children and youth 0 – 18 years that identify multiple risk factors. It supports families to meet their basic needs; enhance their family’s health and well-being; strengthen their parenting and child/youth development knowledge; and build supportive networks and connections to community resources and services.

Service description: Home Visitation Programs provide in-home parent education and family support services to expectant parents and those with children newborn to 6 years of age. Home Visitation serves families who face challenges that may place their children at risk and keep them from developing their full potential.

Service description: Based on a comprehensive curriculum (Foundational Curriculum), Parents as Teachers focuses on the early years, prenatal to kindergarten, to help parents understand what to expect during each stage and phase of their child’s development. Parents as Teachers’ certified parent educators offer parents practical ways to encourage learning, manage challenging behaviours, and promote strong parent-child relationships. The program’s core components consist of personal home visits by the parent educators, parent group meetings, developmental screening, and linkages to community resources.

Service description: Group and individual programming for children and youth ages 7-18 to focus on skill-building and social connections to assist in intellectual and emotional growth and development of identity.

Service description: Youth Connections offers programs and support for children and youth, who lack caregiver support, to manage life’s challenges through increased life skill development and to encourage the building of supportive and responsive relationships with family members, peers, the community and/or cultural heritage

Service description: Parent/Caregiver Education offers programs and support that promote the parent-child relationship, safe nurturing home environments and encourage positive parenting practices. Services support parents/caregivers to understand what children and youth need most in order to thrive and succeed, as well as increasing parental confidence and competence in their role as caregivers.

Service description: Information and referral and coordination of services for Albertans.

Service description: Community-driven programming to promote healthy relationships in a safe inclusive environment on Buffalo Lake Metis Settlement. Programs designed to meet the developmental and cultural needs of children, youth, and families; topics include caregiver capacity, youth support, socio-emotional well-being. Protocol, language, and Elder teachings may be embedded throughout the continuum of services.

Service description: Information and referral and coordination of services for Albertans.

Service description: Home Instructions for Parents for Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) program aims to offer targeted services for immigrant, Indigenous and low-income parents focused on supporting caregiver capacity. The objective of HIPPY is to offer supports and services that promote the development and strengthening of caregivers’ parenting skills and knowledge to enhance their capacity to create safe, responsive and nurturing environments and support healthy child development. As a result, it also fosters growth and development and is provided to actively engage children through a broad range of activities that strengthen, build, or support the mastery of developmental skills, social and emotional development of children and assist them in reaching their full potential.

Service description: The Cross Cultural Parenting Post Conflict (CCPPC) program aims to offer targeted services for immigrant and new Canadian families with children of ages 0-17 years under the “caregiver capacity building support” core service delivery domain. The objective of CCPPC is to offer supports and services that promote the development and strengthening of caregivers’ parenting skills and knowledge to enhance their capacity to create safe, responsive and nurturing environments and support healthy child development. Through CCPPC, immigrant families including those with children and youth with disabilities are able to engage in the community because they experience healthy family functioning.

Service description: Immigrant Girls, Boys and More program promotes child development and well-being among young individuals in Calgary by providing targeted supports that address the risk factors that youth 14+ face related to gender and family-based violence. Immigrant Girls, Boys, and More aims to increase and strengthen social connections and support by building individual capacity, increasing positive social ties, and improving emotional well-being and social competence.

Service description: The Home Visitation program delivers targeted home visitation services to build the capacity of parents (immigrant and new Canadian,) with children residing in Calgary. The program focuses on supporting parents with children under one year of age however, the program provides support for all parents with children 0-6 years of age. The program offers caregiver education and family support services to increase knowledge of parenting and child development and enhance parental resilience.

Service description: Rapid Access Counselling (RAC) provides families with a supportive, change-focused conversation at the right time. RAC can help with a challenge you're facing right now through a 75-minute focused counselling appointment. This service is tailored to support caregivers and children with a focus on supporting caregiver capacity and promoting resilience within the family. We see individuals, families, or couples for solution-focused support on a wide range of counselling needs

Service description: Information and referral and coordination of services for Albertans.

Service description: Home Visitation is an early intervention strategy designed to foster healthy child development based on the goals and needs of the family and within the context of the family home. Home visitation programs provide in-home parenting education and family support services to expectant parents and those with children newborn to six years of age.

Service description: Targeted and Intensive support to help families manage complex challenges and develop collaborative plans with community support networks.

Service description: Support and education for families with children 0 -18 years experiencing difficulties or requiring assistance.

Service description: Programs that connect families with social supports and parenting information for children aged 0-13 years of age, to reduce the stress of isolation.

Service description: Programming supports youth and their families to identify and access needed services including mentoring for youth, parent support groups and specialized learning opportunities for teen parents.

Service description: Information and referral and coordination of services for Albertans.

Service description: Healthy Families is a home visitation program providing support to parents with newborns and children aged 0-6 who are in a variety of at-risk circumstances. These circumstances can include low income, parents without family or community support, history of abuse/neglect, and parents who find it difficult to cope with day-to-day family challenges. Home Visitors visit families in their homes 1-2 times/week to strengthen existing parenting abilities and promote the development of new competencies so that parents have the knowledge and skills needed to be positive, confident parents and provide their children with experiences and opportunities that promote child learning and development.

Service description: Programs & services which support learning, skill development and personal wellbeing for caregivers- optimizing their strengths and enhancing knowledge, promote a child’s wellbeing and assist them to reach their developmental potential – strengthening and supporting the mastery of skills in all developmental domains, and promote positive connections between children, youth, families and communities- developing natural supports and nurturing environments.

Service description: This spoke service will provide child and youth development supports through family enhancement sessions, and child and youth development workshops. In addition, this spoke service will provide caregiver education sessions through group and individual delivery methods.

Service description: Information and referral and coordination of services for Albertans.

Service description: The Alex Pre/Postnatal program for at-risk youth up to age 24, seeks to improve maternal and infant health, development, and well-being; strengthen parenting capacity; and prevent/decrease infants from being taken into care. The program is part of the larger Alex Youth Health Centre, which provides comprehensive mental and physical health care with wrap-around services and outreach support.

Service description: Big Brothers Big Sisters mentoring programs are community- and school-based programs that facilitate a natural supports relationship between a young person and a caring adult or Teen mentor. Our programs are 1:1, following best practices for effective mentoring.

Service description: This Spoke Program offers free home visitation to parents and caregivers of children 0-6 years old, to build skills and problem-solving strategies that will enable effective and safe home environments. Offers coaching and parenting suggestions for families of young children who are experiencing risk factors or have experienced adverse events.

Service description: This Spoke Program offers free workshops for parents and caregivers tackling common issues and topics that come up for families with children of all ages. Topics may include anxiety in children, healthy sleep routines, parenting styles, challenging behaviours and coping skills and many more. Activities to build connection and healthy relationships along with support/education groups are also offered.

Service description: Functional Family Therapy © (FFT) is an intensive, evidence-based therapy model that works with the child/youth and their entire family aimed at improving family cohesion, increasing the family’s protective factors and reducing risk factors. We have two teams, one for children/youth ages 0-11 and one for ages 11-18, which is run in collaboration with Kindred.

Service description: CUPS’ Play Therapy & Infant/Parent Mental Health program assists low-income families with children aged 0-6 who may be experiencing social, emotional, or behavioural challenges. Play Therapy supports work with parents and children to identify strengths and challenges, set goals, and learn about tools and strategies to manage social-emotional challenges.

Service description: Rapid Access Counselling (RAC) provides families with a supportive, change-focused conversation at the right time. RAC can help with a challenge you're facing right now through a 75-minute focused counselling appointment. This service is tailored to support caregivers and children with a focus on supporting caregiver capacity and promoting resilience within the family. We see individuals, families, or couples for solution-focused support on a wide range of counselling needs.

Service description: Information and referral and coordination of services for Albertans.

Service description: Through relational care / trauma informed care / harm reduction best practice service delivery, we provide critical mentoring, literacy interventions, life skills competencies and wellness support. We are engaged in wellness support by assisting and mentoring youth navigating life in generational poverty, physical and mental health challenges, the resulting layered trauma of complex and significant adversity. We mentor and support youth in building capacity through their lived experiences in below-poverty-line marginalizing realities including: hunger, absence of healthy adult modelling/supervision, instability at home and family violence, homelessness in all its manifestations, disassociation from school/academics, LGBTQ+ advocacy, justice/legal matters, racism and bullying, sexual health issues, cultural identity gaps, the lure of drugs and alcohol as a means of self-medicating, and other street methods of survival. Six day/week Critical mentoring, Life skills, and Literacy Interventions, ministry funded (partially), are but a portion of myriad programs and services provided by our highly skilled and competent team. All programs funded and non- funded are offered at no cost to any youth who walk through our door.

Service description: Through culturally connected, harm reduction and trauma informed approaches to outreach and crisis intervention, our Cultural Navigator, Registered Social Worker and Addictions Worker collaborate with each other and the entire iHuman team to wrap around the core needs of our youth and caregivers, offering tools and teachings to support their capacity in finding identity, self-worth, purpose and belonging through self-identified gaps and goals. Youth are connected to and engaged in supports that help identify and develop sustainable resources, tools and self-confidences that encourage and empower their personal growth and caregiving capacity.

Service description: The Parent Education program offers workshops and groups that support caregiver capacity building, recognizing that parents/caregivers are their child’s first and most important teacher. Parents/caregivers will learn how to identify and address risk factors, and promote protective factors, including fostering their child’s brain development and architecture based on what we know about brain science. 1:1 services will be offered as needed by the family.

Service description: The Home Visitation program promotes healthy relationships, positive mental health and well-being. The building of individual and family resilience is embedded throughout the program and supports families to understand their experiences and parenting skills, and to focus on strengthening their knowledge and capacity in order to support healthy attachment as well as brain and child development in the early years.

Service description: Norwood’s Parent Respite Program focuses equally on supporting vulnerable children and their parents/caregivers. This free program is for families experiencing extreme moments of adversity. Its intent is to reduce harm, abuse, and neglect of children, and build parenting skills and capacity. It provides parents with free, short-term planned and unplanned, relief from care of their child. The ultimate aim of Parent Respite is to support optimal child development and well-being and build caregiver capacity by providing a service that promotes positive connections between children and caregivers.

Service description: Information and referral and coordination of services for Albertans.

Service description: BGC Cochrane and Area offers youth prevention programming within the town of Cochrane and surrounding western rocky view county. Our programs are offered in our space, The CLUB, Cochrane’s only teen dedicated space, as well as 14 area middle and high schools, and rural community centres.

Service description: Our Home Visitors are highly skilled to support your parenting goals and understanding your child’s needs. If you are pregnant or have children up to 6 years of age, we will help you achieve your parenting goals right in your own home! YOU CAN EXPECT TO: • meet regularly in your home, by phone or virtually • set goals • learn more about your child’s development • receive guidance for parenting & child development • make connections with your community • gain problem-solving skills

Service description: The Caregiver Capacity and Support program provides evidence based and informed education and skill building opportunities for parents/caregivers. A range of programs are offered for parents/caregivers with children ages 0-18, focused on enhancing caregiver capacity to create a safe, responsive, and nurturing environment and encourage positive parenting practices. This increases parental confidence, competence and supports healthy child and youth development.

Service description: Our FRN offers a variety of programs to increase the physical, mental, and social emotional development of children, birth to age six. Our experienced team offers an enriching environment within each program, providing a safe and fun place for children to socialize, play and increase fine motor skills, while parents/ caregivers learn about child developmental, access resources and supports to ensure their children are reaching identified milestones.

Service description: Information and referral and coordination of services for Albertans.

Service description: Trained Home Visitation Practitioners provide caregivers with information and support that helps them improve and enhance their parenting skills and provide a safe, nurturing environment for their children. Practitioners link families to a network of community services and resources that can help strengthen a family’s well-being. Participation in home visitation is voluntary and services are based on individual family needs.

Service description: Family facilitation includes elements of parent education as well as child and youth development programming. All parent education programs offered by the FRN provide support for parents wanting to learn about their child’s development in a variety of areas and enhancing their parenting knowledge and skills to support their family.

Service description: To serve children, youth and families that are experiencing significant adversity and would benefit from one-on-one support services in their home.

Service description: Counselling provided to caregivers and their children. Services provided to help manage their mental health, increase their knowledge of supports, and increase their overall well-being.

Service description: Information and referral and coordination of services for Albertans.

Service description: Awo Taan Healing Lodge provides culturally safe early development programming for Indigenous children 0-6 years and their parents, grandparents, and other significant caregivers. Families also receive individual supports based on identified need. Culturally Informed Youth Well-Being Program aims to provide culturally safe child and youth development programming for Indigenous families by focusing on their strengths to increase their resiliency.

Service description: Tawaw Family Resource Network East Cultural Support Services connect children, youth and families to culturally relevant programming, services and supports. Elder support, ceremony and Indigenous ways of knowing and being are integrated into program offerings, and invite participants to develop resilience through community connection. Services are participant-informed, and so program activities and supports are adjusted based on need.

Service description: Tawaw Family Resource Network East Indigenous Early Intervention Supports provides one-on-one parenting support grounded in traditional parenting teachings. Group and one-on-one youth life skills support are offered, alongside child-parent play activities. Childcare is available during programming to support parental engagement.

Service description: Tawaw Family Resource Network East Indigenous Home Visitation – Miywasin Nohkom, facilitates a family-centered approach to develop parent/caregiver capacity and awareness of child development, while strengthening family connection to community.

Service description: Rapid Access Counselling (RAC) provides families with a supportive, change-focused conversation at the right time. RAC can help with a challenge you're facing right now through a 75-minute focused counselling appointment. This service is tailored to support caregivers and children with a focus on supporting caregiver capacity and promoting resilience within the family. We see individuals, families, or couples for solution-focused support on a wide range of counselling needs

Service description: Information and referral and coordination of services for Albertans.

Service description: Community-driven programming to promote healthy relationships in a safe inclusive environment on Paddle Prairie Metis Settlement. Programs designed to meet the developmental and cultural needs of children, youth and families; topics include caregiver capacity, youth support, socio-emotional well-being. Protocol, language, and Elder teachings may be embedded throughout the continuum of services.

Service description: Information and referral and coordination of services for Albertans.

Service description: Home visitors provide supports and services to families in Alberta that require assistance with their children aged 0-6. This is an early prevention and intervention program that helps parents come up with strategies to eliminate unwanted behaviours and patterns. The home visitor offers resources and is fully equipped with all the tools to help families improve their parenting skills and ensure that they are in a safe and nurturing environment.

Service description: Using the medicine wheel to guide our practice this spoke provides program delivery, outreach work, and one on one support. Outreach work consists of resource navigation for youth and consults for partners in the community.

Service description: In-Home Familial based early-preventative Indigenous Supports. Providing effective and culturally appropriate connections to Individuals within Familial Units. Promoting areas of resilience, self-advocacy, connection, and greater opportunity towards risk prevention. While directly and indirectly, addressing the complex issues, challenges and systemic barriers affecting Individuals within Familial Units and the greater Indigenous community. Indigenous based cultural supports, which provide necessary sensitives, understandings and connections towards the obtainment and overall delivery of strength-based supports. In particular, individuals within Familial Units diminish areas of insecurity through receiving services based in advocacy, basic need resources obtainment, external and internal based referrals, informal counselling supports, among other forms; promoting an overall agency goal towards Familial Unit well-being, safety, betterment and strengthened Indigenous connections.

Service description: The Red Road family support spoke offers parents and caregivers’ assistance in bonding (understanding the importance of bonding with their baby and how it can be done in a cultural context), and child development ages and stages education. The program utilizes ceremonies including moss bag making, naming, sharing circles, moccasins, and baby star blankets to tie lessons together and works to enhance parenting skills, child engagement and cultural connections.

Service description: Family outreach services provide crisis intervention and service navigation support to Indigenous families in need. Outreach services aid families in accessing counselling, referral to basic needs supports, apply for identification or housing, manage challenges with their children such as navigating an in-care status or behavioural issues, understand their water rights or educational supports, and works to help families achieve stabilization.

Service description: Information and referral and coordination of services for Albertans.

Service description: The Relentless Connectors initiative aims to reduce the need for formal intervention by Children’s Services by meeting the emerging needs of families dealing with multiple risk factors before they reach the crisis threshold for intervention. It aims to do so by improving the quality, range, relevance, availability, and accessibility of community support services for families. This program will also support those exiting Children’s Services involvement

Service description: Using the medicine wheel to guide our practice this spoke provides program delivery, outreach work, and one on one support. Outreach work consists of resource navigation for youth and consults for partners in the community.

Service description: Home visitation is a voluntary, long-term program, which provides services to pregnant women, first-time parenting families, or families in need of additional support in the Edmonton area. Home visitors work closely with families on a 1:1 basis providing in home support and coaching around child development and parenting skills.

Service description: Offers child development (0 to 12 years of age) and parent education programs with cultural and non-cultural content for children, youth, and families to attend in a fun learning environment. Social programming for all ages is also offered. There are also programs focusing on engaging with and supporting men, those who identify as men, and dads in the community through guided peer support.

Service description: Information and referral and coordination of services for Albertans.

Service description: ASSIST Multicultural Parent Education Program aims to increase parents and caregivers’ capacity and knowledge to foster children’s wellbeing and resiliency. Culturally and linguistically appropriate parenting education programs are offered to parents and caregivers of children aged 0 to 18 years old. These programs also help to build socio-cultural connections and support systems for newcomers and refugee families we serve.

Service description: Through relational care / trauma informed care / harm reduction best practice service delivery, we provide critical mentoring, literacy interventions, life skills competencies and wellness support. We are engaged in wellness support by assisting and mentoring youth navigating life in generational poverty, physical and mental health challenges, the resulting layered trauma of complex and significant adversity. We mentor and support youth in building capacity through their lived experiences in below-poverty-line marginalizing realities including: hunger, absence of healthy adult modelling/supervision, instability at home and family violence, homelessness in all its manifestations, disassociation from school/academics, LGBTQ+ advocacy, justice/legal matters, racism and bullying, sexual health issues, cultural identity gaps, the lure of drugs and alcohol as a means of self-medicating, and other street methods of survival. Six day/week Critical mentoring, Life skills, and Literacy Interventions, ministry funded (partially), are but a portion of myriad programs and services provided by our highly skilled and competent team. All programs funded and non- funded are offered at no cost to any youth who walk through our door.

Service description: We provide culturally matched holistic family support. Our staff work with a diverse clientele to address their complex circumstances and adversity to build caregiver capacity. The aim is to enhance their resilience skills and establish meaningful social connections, so they can provide a healthy child and youth nurturance milieu as parents. Our programs aim to reduce the risk factors by boosting protective factors

Service description: Focused on holistic and healthy child development and caregiver-child attachment, the Culturally Responsive Early Childhood Development program is delivered in a manner that celebrates the first culture and language of parents. Each offering is co-designed with brokers from the community to ensure cultural relevance and to build on the cultural wealth of parents.

Service description: This program will be delivered in the first languages, cultural contexts and life realties families within six cultural minority communities: Arabic-speaking, Eritrean, Ethiopian, French-speaking African, South Asian and Spanish-speaking. Due to the complex circumstances, multiple risk factors, and significant adversity facing cultural minority families with high cultural and linguistic distance from the broader society, this is specifically designed to overcome barriers to these challenges

Service description: Culturally-Matched Holistic Family Support where cultural brokers work with the whole family across a wide range of complex needs to build caregiver capacity and establish social connections to build resilience and nurture healthy child and youth development and resilience. This program aims to meet the needs and strengthen protective factors among families with significant cultural and linguistic distance from broader society agencies, who are facing complex circumstances, multiple risk factors, and significant adversity. They may require services in first language, and deep orientation to the cultures and context of Alberta.

Service description: Through participation in educational, recreation and social activities with the volunteer mentor, a mentoring relationship provides a child with support, friendship, guidance, and a constructive role model. Mentoring comes in the form of in-school and community based. BGCBigs neighbourhood club programs offer site-based, out of school time program options in several neighbourhood club sites and schools, five of which are All in For Youth schools.

Service description: Information and referral and coordination of services for Albertans.

Service description: Community-driven programming to promote healthy relationships in a safe inclusive environment on Elizabeth Metis Settlement. Programs designed to meet the developmental and cultural needs of children, youth and families; topics include caregiver capacity, youth support, socio-emotional well-being. Protocol, language, and Elder teachings may be embedded throughout the continuum of services.

Service description: Information and referral and coordination of services for Albertans.

Service description: Community-driven programming to promote healthy relationships in a safe inclusive environment on Fishing Lake Metis Settlement. Programs designed to meet the developmental and cultural needs of children, youth and families; topics include caregiver capacity, youth support, socio-emotional well-being. Protocol, language, and Elder teachings may be embedded throughout the continuum of services.

Service description: Information and referral and coordination of services for Albertans.

Service description: The Hub Family Resource Centre (the Hub) offers fun child development and social support programs for you and your child to engage in together. These programs are a great way to meet other caregivers and children and get connected to your community! The Hub Family Resource Centre also offers online and in-person screenings for children ages 0-5 years to help you better understand and support your child’s development.

Service description: Providing intensive and targeted services to assist families with children to address challenges, stabilize home environments, and build resilient family units.

Service description: Home Visitation programs offer parents with children ages 0-6, and parents- to-be, support as they navigate the early childhood years. The program provides families with information, education and support on child development and parent-child interaction. The goal is empowering parents to raise resilient children who are healthy, safe, and secure.

Service description: Caregiver Education for parents/caregivers of children ages 0 – 18 years is offered individually and in group programs. The Hub offers various parenting programs including Triple P Positive Parenting for families experiencing everyday parenting challenges such as toddler tantrums or teen alcohol use. Programs are also available for families experiencing separation and divorce, and for parents looking to understand how to create healthy attachments with their children

Service description: Information and referral and coordination of services for Albertans.

Service description: The Strengthening Homefires Cultural and Social Work Support Program is a prevention and early intervention program that uses Indigenous ways of knowing and holistic views to strengthen and build resiliency of a family unit to create a legacy of healing through education and support. The supports and services provided will strengthen Indigenous parents, youth and families’ understanding of traditions, customs and practices; grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing, increasing positive outcomes related to child safety and well-being. Participants will gain the knowledge and skills to build resilience through understanding the effects of indigenous history and intergenerational trauma regarding parenting and interactions with family and community and increase their capacity to access community resources in times of need.

Service description: By supporting vulnerable children and youth between the ages of 6-18 they will attain long term stability by increasing connections, supports and reducing barriers. A variety of evidence-informed and strength-based programs, supported referrals, and in home supports will be provided to the community and families we serve. We work with people of all backgrounds including but not limited to indigenous, sexually and gender diverse, and culturally diverse children, youth, and families.

Service description: Play - Early Childhood Development programming is offered throughout the Fort Saskatchewan and Sturgeon Region Family Resource Network area. It is an opportunity for caregivers and their children to play together and learn more about child development in a supportive and enriching environment.

Service description: Home Visitation is an in-home support provided to prenatal caregivers as well as caregivers of children 0-6 years of age within the Fort Saskatchewan and Sturgeon Region Family Resource Network. The support may include Health for Two pre-natal support in a community location. The intent is to nurture the caregiver-child relationship and provide support for child development.

Service description: Family Education and Support includes one to one in home supports and group supports in community for families with children aged 0 – 18 years. Support is intended to build resilience and increase knowledge and skills about parenting and child development.

Service description: Information and referral and coordination of services for Albertans.

Service description: Community-driven programming to promote healthy relationships in a safe inclusive environment on Gift Lake Metis Settlement. Programs designed to meet the developmental and cultural needs of children, youth and families; topics include caregiver capacity, youth support, socio-emotional well-being. Protocol, language, and Elder teachings may be embedded throughout the continuum of services.

Service description: Information and referral and coordination of services for Albertans.

Service description: Home Visitation provides in-home parenting education and family support services to expectant parents and those with children newborn to 6 years of age. The focus of these visits may include working with the family’s strengths, values, and goals to build on parenting skills and child development knowledge, while supporting positive parent-child interaction and other aspects of positive family functioning

Service description: Parenting Programs, support groups and workshops, as well as parent/child groups aimed to increase knowledge of parenting and positive parenting strategies to increase positive interactions between caregivers and children and youth.

Service description: The wahkomiwew (being connected to people) works with families, children and youth to support their resiliency and wellbeing where they: • Intensive support for families dealing with issues such as addictions, mental health, involvement with Children’s Services, housing • One to one support and mentoring for youth ages 14-18 • Provide opportunities for connections to ceremony and traditional teachings

Service description: The Centre for Young Parents is a local non-profit and registered charity that supports pregnant and parenting young families (under 20 at the time of pregnancy and until the child reaches age 6) in Grande Prairie and the surrounding area. Centre for Young Parents empowers young parents by providing information and support to: • Facilitate judgement free decision-making regarding choices on pregnancy and parenting • Offer multi-level prenatal and postnatal care options • Maximize opportunities for learning, education or training • Gain knowledge of and access to community resources • Promote and strengthen healthy family connections • Encourage the development of individual strengths and self-determination

Service description: Family Connect - Family Supports program is an early intervention program that provides support to families with children aged 7 to 18 in the City of Grande Prairie and surrounding rural communities. Parents are supported to create a nurturing and safe family environment, build resiliency within themselves and their children, build new social connections and learn about positive parenting and child development. The goal is empowering parents to raise resilient children who are healthy, safe, and secure.

Service description: Information and referral and coordination of services for Albertans.

Service description: The PE program creates opportunities for caregivers to learn, play and connect throughout their parenting journey to support optimal child development, caregiving capacity and connection to community and supports..

Service description: The Home Visitation program works with caregivers & expecting caregivers to support and nurture their child's development. Families work with HV in their homes to build on their strengths and develop new skills. Supporting Prenatal Families & Families with children 0-6 years of age.

Service description: Information and referral and coordination of services for Albertans.

Service description: Building caregiver/parental capacity and knowledge of healthy child/youth development and behaviour, healthy attachment and relationships, positive parenting practice and family life skills.

Service description: Home Visitation promotes positive parent-child relationships, improve parenting knowledge and skills, foster healthy child development, help families access the network of formal and informal services and supports available in their own communities, promote family wellness, and help build strong communities.

Service description: Providing Support for families with children ages 7-18 years of age. This program is to increase the family’s skills and abilities to manage day-to-day parental stressors and to enhance each family’s ability to care for their children. The in-home family support is most often supported in the family’s homes; however, it can also be delivered to families in their community, at a coffee shop or the library, and over the phone at the family’s request.

Service description: Information and referral and coordination of services for Albertans.

Service description: Programs and services promote positive connections between young people, their families and their communities and promote the physical, emotional, cognitive and spiritual wellbeing of young people. Programs and services develop natural supports that create responsive and nurturing environments for young people so they have the opportunity to reach their developmental potential. Programs may be offered both in-person and/or virtually.

Service description: Claresholm Outreach operates a resource and referral office where vulnerable families and youth are assisted in navigating service systems and accessing resources and help in times of need.

Service description: We provide Caregiver Capacity and Parent Education through accessible, non-judgmental, and flexible programs from families, children, youth and parents/caregivers with children aged 0-18 years. We also provide our program Building Blocks In-home Visitation Services.

Service description: A variety of programs and services for families with children 0-12 years that promotes a child's social, physical, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual well-being as well as parenting, family support programs for families with children 0-18 years, and community outreach support.

Service description: Counselling services for children and youth that support the development of protective factors while reducing risk factors.

Service description: Trained Home Visitors provide families with information and support to help improve their parenting skills and provide a safe, nurturing environment for their children. Home Visitors also link families to a network of community services and resources they can use to provide their children with a good start in life. Participation in Home Visitation programs is voluntary. Program services are based on family needs.

Service description: Information and referral and coordination of services for Albertans.

Service description: Family facilitation includes elements of parent education as well as child and youth development programming. All parent education programs offered by the FRN provide support for parents wanting to learn about their child’s development in a variety of areas and enhancing their parenting knowledge and skills to support their family. The Early Childhood Development component is a service that strives to support and enhance both infant/child wellbeing as well as infant/child development. Child development activities included in this program will be directly related to the following developmental domains: Fine Motor Skills, Gross Motor Skills, Communication Skills, Problem Solving Skills and Personal-Social Skills. Developmental Support Plans will be used as a service plan for families who require a specialized referral but must wait for services. The Child and Youth Development component is a service that strives to support and enhance both child/youth wellbeing as well as child/youth development. Some well-being domains are addressed concurrently with child development activities, while others are addressed within evidenced-based parent education curriculums that McMan Central delivers.

Service description: To serve children, youth and families that are experiencing significant adversity and would benefit from one-on-one support services in their home.

Service description: Home Visitation is an early intervention program designed to support families in providing a nurturing, stimulating and safe environment for their children from prenatal until the child turns seven. Services focus on supporting the parent(s) as well as supporting parent/child interaction and child development.

Service description: Information and Referral

Service description: The Family Support Program will provide a continuum of services in the home and in the community with the aim to effectively support, strengthen and preserve families through a client centered approach

Service description: Home Visitation will Provide support and education to the new family as soon as possible before or after birth.

Service description: Provide simple everyday strategies and activities to help a child reach appropriate developmental goals in a culturally appropriate and strength-based way. Provide an opportunity for caregivers and staff members to collaborate on a child’s development. Helps parents and/or caregivers understand the type of experiences their child needs, to meet their next developmental milestone.

Service description: The Diversion program is a family support program that offers individual family supports that are culturally appropriate in the home or community facilitating parenting supports (Triple P and Circle of Security parenting programs) and assists families in strengthening family functioning, problem solving skills and stress reduction in the home. The program works with families with children 7+ building on existing strengths to build resiliency and family well-being.

Service description: The Mamowichihitowin Community Wellness Program provides ongoing, long-term therapeutic services to individuals and families struggling with intergenerational trauma, sexual abuse, domestic violence, and family violence. We also provide a bi-weekly, regional women’s group virtually to women involved in the program.

Service description: Jasper Home Visitation program provides in home parenting education and family support services to expectant parents and those with children newborn to 6 years of age. It is a free, voluntary program providing confidential ongoing support that helps create the best possible start for children.

Service description: Jasper FRN staff will provide education, training and skill building for parents and caregivers that promote a healthy parent-child relationship, safe nurturing home environments and positive parenting practices. Families are also supported to access relevant supports, navigate complex systems and build connections in an effort to build individual and family resilience.

Service description: We have programs and services designed to support caregivers of children and youth 0-17 by providing the skills, knowledge, resources, and materials needed to build their capacity to be effective and supportive caregivers to their children. Our programs also provide opportunity for caregivers, children and youth to make social connections which in turn provide essential natural supports and strong mental health benefits. Our group and drop-in programming is designed to help caregivers develop a supportive and collaborative network.

Service description: Information and referral and coordination of services for Albertans.

Service description: Community-driven programming to promote healthy relationships in a safe inclusive environment on Kikino Metis Settlement. Programs designed to meet the developmental and cultural needs of children, youth, and families; topics include caregiver capacity, youth support, socio-emotional well-being. Protocol, language, and elder teachings may be embedded throughout the continuum of services.

Service description: Information and referral and coordination of services for Albertans.

Service description: Family facilitation includes elements of parent education as well as child and youth development programming. All parent education programs offered by the FRN provide support for parents wanting to learn about their child’s development in a variety of areas and enhancing their parenting knowledge and skills to support their family. The Early Childhood Development component is a service that strives to support and enhance both infant/child wellbeing as well as infant/child development. Child development activities included in this program will be directly related to the following developmental domains: Fine Motor Skills, Gross Motor Skills, Communication Skills, Problem Solving Skills and Personal-Social Skills. Developmental Support Plans will be used as a service plan for families who require a specialized referral but must wait for services. The Child and Youth Development component is a service that strives to support and enhance both child/youth wellbeing as well as child/youth development. Some well-being domains are addressed concurrently with child development activities, while others are addressed within evidenced-based parent education curriculums that McMan Central delivers.

Service description: To serve children, youth and families that are experiencing significant adversity and would benefit from one-on-one support services in their home.

Service description: Home Visitation is an early intervention program designed to support families in providing a nurturing, stimulating and safe environment for their children from prenatal until the child turns seven. Services focus on supporting the parent(s) as well as supporting parent/child interaction and child development.

Service description: Information and referral and coordination of services for Albertans.

Service description: We provide recreation, education, life skills and social emotional wellness programming for children and youth. Our programs are presented live and virtually with an emphasis on participants developing skills in support of future health and wellness.

Service description: Home Visitation is a voluntary, free program for city of Leduc families with children 0-6. Home Visitors, parents, children and other family members connect ongoing in the family’s home. The focus of these visits may include working with the family’s strengths, values and goals to build on parenting skills and child development knowledge, while supporting positive parent-child interaction and other aspects of positive family functioning.

Service description: Offers a variety of opportunities for caregivers, parents and families to attend workshops and events that support healthy attachment, education, child development, resiliency building and community connection. This program is geared for families who have children and youth ages 0 to 18 years old. We aim to provide education that supports the development of the child/youth, connect caregivers with community referrals and to help families who are facing challenges meet their goals.

Service description: Using Indigenous Ways of Knowing and specific staff and resources, parent education and family support programming will serve families with children and youth aged 0-18 years. Parent/caregiver education and family support is intended to help families gain knowledge about parenting and their child’s development.

Service description: Information and referral and coordination of services for Albertans.

Service description: The Strengthening Homefires Cultural and Social Work Support Program is a prevention and early intervention program that uses Indigenous ways of knowing and holistic views to strengthen and build resiliency of a family unit to create a legacy of healing through education and support. The supports and services provided will strengthen Indigenous parents, youth and families’ understanding of traditions, customs and practices; grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing, increasing positive outcomes related to child safety and well-being. Participants will gain the knowledge and skills to build resilience through understanding the effects of indigenous history and intergenerational trauma regarding parenting and interactions with family and community and increase their capacity to access community resources in times of need.

Service description: Leduc County Home Visitation provides identified parents with targeted, long term, trauma informed, relationship based, in-home support that focuses on child development from pre-natal up to age 6. Parents and caregivers are supported to develop their parenting skills, build resiliencies and increase protective factors, thereby improving developmental outcomes for families.

Service description: Our Family Support program offers one-on-one support to families with children outside the scope of Home Visitation. Utilizing best practice approaches derived from the same principles of practice as Home Visitation, the program focuses on child development for children ages 7-18 and provides in-home, one-to-one support to support parents and caregivers to develop their parenting skills, build resiliencies and increase protective factors thereby improving developmental outcomes for families.

Service description: Parent Education workshop sessions are created and delivered based on information about the science of brain development, stress responses, attachment theory, healthy child growth and development, play-based learning and parenting strategies. Workshops may be offered in partnership with other programs and agencies to best meet the needs of families.

Service description: Information and referral and coordination of services for Albertans.

Service description: The Families First Program is a home visitation early intervention program for families with children prenatal to 6 years of age (the focus of the program is the 0-3 years range) that supports the health and well-being of children and families and reduces the risk of child abuse and neglect. Families First Program facilitates the development of “protective factors” to assist parents identified as at-risk to find resources and develop skills to parent effectively.

Service description: This spoke service offers a variety of parenting supports which include formal one on one parent consultations, informal supportive conversations with relevant referrals to community resources, parent and child play groups, child and youth programs, formal group educational programs and seminars including but not limited to Triple P, Active Parenting, monthly support groups.

Service description: Family Success Coaches build supportive, encouraging and strength based relationships with caregivers (with children 0 – 18 yrs.) and other family members to address barriers and risks, support families to access community resources (e.g. housing, mental health, Immigrant services, school services, youth programming etc.), increase parenting skills and knowledge of child development and increase social/cultural connections.

Service description: Families Thriving Together is a counselling program based on family system approach. It is a 3 tier program in which caregiver and children address attachment and trauma issues. This program is culturally, socially, financially and spiritually based to meet the needs of the family.

Service description: This program assists families in navigating community resources, reducing barriers to accessing support, identifying steps to assist families in achieving their goals and advocating alongside as needed.

Service description: The Family Preservation Program includes a Family Preservation Worker and Youth Workers who provide multi-faceted programming opportunities to aid in the development of skills and resiliency in caregivers, youth, and families. Youth Workers work directly with youth to build life skills with outcomes measured using the Casey Life Skills Assessment Tool. The Family Preservation Worker works in collaboration with the Youth Workers and FRN partners to provide family programming opportunities including parent/teen mediation; caregiver/youth/family groups; family activities; community connection and referral; cultural groups, including connection to local Elders; private mentorship sessions; and outreach support, when appropriate.

Service description: South Region Parents as Teachers (SRPAT) delivers personalized, custom support to parents, caregivers, and families with children prenatal to age six utilizing the comprehensive, evidence-based Parents as Teachers (PAT) home visitation model. Certified home visitors share research-based information and utilize strength-based practices with families to provide caregivers with the information, encouragement and support families need to help their children develop optimally during the crucial early years of life. Personal visits strengthen protective factors and address three areas of emphasis: Parent-Child Interactions, Development-Centered Parenting, and Family Well-Being using the PAT Foundational Curriculum, PAT Foundational Curriculum 2 (3-K Curriculum), Partnering with Teen Parents and Interactions Across Abilities Curriculums in culturally sensitive ways.

Service description: Information and referral and coordination of services for Albertans.