Provincial Family Resource Networks – service provider search

Service description: Information and referral and coordination of services for Albertans.

Service description: Supports and services are provided to assist families with basic needs, including navigating the system of natural and community supports, building parental/caregiver resiliency by focusing on the family unit and fostering familial wellness, providing culturally relevant and appropriate resources, programming, and support, and supporting families where they live by providing mobile, flexible supports and services.

Service description: This program provides culturally relevant and appropriate resources to caregivers related to the stages of child development (including developmental delays), parenting skills and other knowledge to foster healthy family wellness. The program works to remove barriers and clarify possible preconceived notions and myths about services and receiving support and seeks to support families where they live by providing mobile, flexible supports and services.

Service description: Parent education programs offer caregivers tools and strategies to address behavioural problems and raise their child in an environment that is safe, loving and predictable. A counselling component is also provided that offers parents current supports, resources and perspective on the impact of traumatic and adverse experiences (i.e. domestic violence, childhood abuse,).

Service description: South Region Parents as Teachers (SRPAT) delivers personalized, custom support to parents, caregivers, and families with children prenatal to age six utilizing the comprehensive, evidence-based Parents as Teachers (PAT) home visitation model. Certified home visitors share research-based information and utilize strength-based practices with families to provide caregivers with the information, encouragement and support families need to help their children develop optimally during the crucial early years of life. Personal visits strengthen protective factors and address three areas of emphasis: Parent-Child Interactions, Development-Centered Parenting, and Family Well-Being using the PAT Foundational Curriculum, PAT Foundational Curriculum 2 (3-K Curriculum), Partnering with Teen Parents and Interactions Across Abilities Curriculums in culturally sensitive ways.

Service description: Based on the diversity and unique needs of youth, these programs offers a variety of services. These include: youth who identify as sexually or gender diverse, youth who experience anxiety, youth who experience grief and loss and youth who experience trauma