Family Resource Networks (FRNs) provide supports and services to help Alberta families reach their fullest potential. A variety of services are available across the province for children and youth ages 0 to 18, and their families. Services include:

  • Child and youth development and well-being supports

    Provides age-appropriate programs geared towards promoting healthy development. Program participants of all ages are actively engaged in opportunities to build, strengthen, and master skills through a variety of programming and experiences. Services may include parent and child programs, youth leadership and outreach programs, as well as childhood developmental screenings and assessments.

  • Caregiver capacity building supports

    Includes parenting groups, seminars, classes or one- to- one support to help caregivers develop their parenting knowledge and the skills to provide safe, responsive, and nurturing environments.

  • Social connections and supports

    Includes services that promote positive connections between infants, children, youth, parents, families, caregivers and communities. Services connect participants to both natural and formal support by offering group sessions or one-to-one services to help families navigate community-based resources.

  • Home visitation supports

    Provides in-home parent education and family support services to expectant parents and those with children newborn to 6 years of age. Services are intended to support families who are facing challenges that may place their children at risk and keep them from developing to their full potential. These services focus on the well-being of families and help build healthy, strong communities. The agencies who are a part of the FRNs work to make sure infants, children and youth are safe and resilient, while supporting parents and caregivers.

Services provided through FRNs are available to all Albertans, free of charge, regardless of where they live.

There are 70 FRNs across the province. Each Network is located on the map below. For more detailed information regarding services offered by each FRN, please click on any Network.

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Edmonton - Indigenous Supporting (1)

  • Program type: Home Visitation

  • 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.

  • Role: Spoke

  • Phone: 780-477-6648

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  • Address: 12046 77 Street, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T5B 4G9

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  • Program type: Child and youth development and well-being supports

  • 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.

  • Role: Spoke

  • Phone: 780-481-3451

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  • Address: 11648 85 Street, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T5B 3E5

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  • Program type: Social connections and supports

  • 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.

  • Role: Spoke

  • Phone: 780-452-6100

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  • Address: 10437 123 Street NW, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T5N 1N8

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  • Program type: Child and youth development and well-being supports

  • 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.

  • Role: Spoke

  • Phone: 780-471-3221

  • Web: Visit website

  • Address: 332 - 10045 156 Street, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T5P 2P7

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  • Program type: Social connections and supports

  • 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.

  • Role: Spoke

  • Phone: 780-471-3221

  • Web: Visit website

  • Address: 332 - 10045 156 Street, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T5P 2P7

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