Provincial Family Resource Networks – service provider search

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.