Provincial Family Resource Networks – service provider search

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.