Provincial Family Resource Networks – service provider search

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