Provincial Family Resource Networks – service provider search

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.