Provincial Family Resource Networks – service provider search

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