Provincial Family Resource Networks – service provider search

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

Service description: Big Brothers Big Sisters mentoring programs are community- and school-based programs that facilitate a natural supports relationship between a young person and a caring adult or Teen mentor. Our programs are 1:1, following best practices for effective mentoring.

Service description: Skilled Family Workers, experienced with young parents with complex issues, deliver support services to parents aged 12-22 where risk factors or specific need for one-on-one support are present. This program has three core components: in-home support, group-based learning, and community connection. SYP Workers support young parents with their own development as well as their child’s and adjust their strategies to meet the young parents where they are at.

Service description: The Family Life Education program delivers a variety of evidence-based and evidence-informed parenting curriculum to adults across Calgary. These courses are designed to help parents build important life skills and family literacy by strengthening fundamental competencies related to positive parenting, effective communication skills, improved personal and interpersonal skills, decision-making and problem-solving skills, creative and critical thinking, reflection, self-awareness, and family resilience.

Service description: Skilled and experienced Home Visitors provide home-based services to expectant parents and children newborn to age six, where risk factors or specific need for one-on-one support are present. Services are usually provided in the family home (and is also available remotely), typically on a once-weekly basis, with more frequent visits occurring where more intensive support is needed, and frequency tapering off as level of intensity reduces and as the family meets their goals and transitions towards service closure.

Service description: Resilient Families is a program that provides in-home support to help preserve and strengthen families. Our Facilitators work together with families to help them reach their goals and address the challenges they are facing. We help to teach parenting skills and build on family resiliency so that parents are able to parent their children more effectively and independently

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