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 - New Canadian, Immigrant and Refugee Supporting

  • Program type: Caregiver capacity building supports

  • Service description: ASSIST Multicultural Parent Education Program aims to increase parents and caregivers’ capacity and knowledge to foster children’s wellbeing and resiliency. Culturally and linguistically appropriate parenting education programs are offered to parents and caregivers of children aged 0 to 18 years old. These programs also help to build socio-cultural connections and support systems for newcomers and refugee families we serve.

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  • Phone: 780-429-3111

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  • Address: 9649 105A Ave, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T5H 0M3

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

  • 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.

  • Role: Spoke

  • Phone: 780-479-5283

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  • Address: 8718 118 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T5B 0T1

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  • Program type: Caregiver capacity building supports

  • Service description: We provide culturally matched holistic family support. Our staff work with a diverse clientele to address their complex circumstances and adversity to build caregiver capacity. The aim is to enhance their resilience skills and establish meaningful social connections, so they can provide a healthy child and youth nurturance milieu as parents. Our programs aim to reduce the risk factors by boosting protective factors

  • Role: Spoke

  • Phone: 780-900-2777

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  • Address: 2-786, 10545 108 Street, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T5H 2Z8

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

  • Service description: Focused on holistic and healthy child development and caregiver-child attachment, the Culturally Responsive Early Childhood Development program is delivered in a manner that celebrates the first culture and language of parents. Each offering is co-designed with brokers from the community to ensure cultural relevance and to build on the cultural wealth of parents.

  • Role: Spoke

  • Phone: 780-423-1973

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  • Address: 9538 107 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T5H 0T7

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  • Program type: Home Visitation

  • Service description: This program will be delivered in the first languages, cultural contexts and life realties families within six cultural minority communities: Arabic-speaking, Eritrean, Ethiopian, French-speaking African, South Asian and Spanish-speaking. Due to the complex circumstances, multiple risk factors, and significant adversity facing cultural minority families with high cultural and linguistic distance from the broader society, this is specifically designed to overcome barriers to these challenges

  • Role: Spoke

  • Phone: 780-423-1973

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  • Address: 9538 107 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T5H 0T7

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  • Program type: Caregiver capacity building supports

  • Service description: Culturally-Matched Holistic Family Support where cultural brokers work with the whole family across a wide range of complex needs to build caregiver capacity and establish social connections to build resilience and nurture healthy child and youth development and resilience. This program aims to meet the needs and strengthen protective factors among families with significant cultural and linguistic distance from broader society agencies, who are facing complex circumstances, multiple risk factors, and significant adversity. They may require services in first language, and deep orientation to the cultures and context of Alberta.

  • Role: Spoke

  • Phone: 780-423-1973

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  • Address: 9538 107 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T5H 0T7

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

  • Service description: Through participation in educational, recreation and social activities with the volunteer mentor, a mentoring relationship provides a child with support, friendship, guidance, and a constructive role model. Mentoring comes in the form of in-school and community based. BGCBigs neighbourhood club programs offer site-based, out of school time program options in several neighbourhood club sites and schools, five of which are All in For Youth schools.

  • Role: Spoke

  • Phone: 780-424-8181

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  • Address: 10135 89 Street, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T5H 1P6

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