Provincial family resource networks – service provider search

Service description: Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) mentoring programs are community and school-based programs for youth (ages 14-18), LGBTQ2S+ children to build executive function skills and improve their social-emotional skills and resiliency.

Service description: Trained Home Visitors provide families with information and support that helps them improve their parenting skills and provide a safe, nurturing environment for their children. Home Visitors also link families to a network of community services and resources they can use to provide their children with a good start in life. Participation in Home Visitation programs is voluntary. Program services are based on family needs.

Service description: Variety of programs to facilitate and promote a child/youth’s spiritual, emotional, physical, cognitive, social and emotional development to assist them in reaching their developmental potential. Programs provide ‘brain-building’ opportunities to children/youth to build positive supportive relationships with their parents, peers and other adults and to learn executive functioning skills such as emotional self-regulation, decision making and planning ahead.

Service description: Early Childhood Development Programs consist of a wide variety of programming that are attended by the child and adult caregiver. The education focus is on the parent/caregiver. The child has access to developmentally appropriate activities and their presence reduces barriers for the parent/caregiver to attend. The programs provide the adult with opportunities to learn from role models and benefit from the information being shared and the formal and natural supports being developed.

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

Service description: HIPPY is a home-based parenting and early childhood enrichment program that aligns with the Social Emotional Learning model. Focuses on providing multi-barrier low income parents living in high needs areas of the city with the knowledge and skills to be their child’s first teacher and support their school readiness.

Service description: The Cross Cultural Parenting Post Conflict (CCPPC) program aims to offer targeted services for immigrant and New Canadian families with children of ages 0-17 years. The objective of CCPPC is to offer supports and services that promote the development and strengthening of caregivers’ parenting skills and knowledge to enhance their capacity to create safe, responsive and nurturing environments and support healthy child development.

Service description: The Home Visitation program delivers targeted and intensive Home Visitation services to build the capacity of parents (Immigrant and New Canadian,) with children residing in Calgary. The program focuses on supporting parents with children under one year of age, however, the program provides support for all parents with children 0-6 years of age.

Service description: Immigrant Girls, Boys and More program aims to promote child development and well-being among young individuals in Calgary by providing targeted supports that address the risk factors that youth ages 14+ face related to gender and family based violence. This is a multi-component program that includes individual and group counselling and support, teen transition support, and curriculum-based groups.

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

Service description: The Rapid Access Counselling program is a single session counselling service where families can access service when experiencing vulnerabilities without facing a lengthy waitlist. This 75-minute goal based and solution focused counselling service can be accessed by children, parents/caregivers and families as often as they need.

Service description: Trained Home Visitors provide families with information and support that helps them improve their parenting skills and provide a safe, nurturing environment for their children. Home Visitors also link families to a network of community services and resources they can use to provide their children with a good start in life. Participation in Home Visitation programs is voluntary. Program services are based on family needs.

Service description: Parenting and caregiver capacity building programs such as Circle of Security, Gearing Up for Kindergarten, Emotion Coaching, developmental screening, Drop-in Program, Self-Care for Parents, and sessions for separated and divorced parents.

Service description: Family and Early Childhood Development programs offers individual support to families as well as targeted group sessions and workshops including Circle of Security and Triple P.

Service description: Caregiver education and parenting capacity building sessions and programs including Triple P, Terrific Toddlers.

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

Service description: The Alex Pre/Postnatal Program is for at-risk youth. The program seeks to improve maternal and infant health, development, and well-being; strengthen parenting capacity; and prevent infants from being taken into care.

Service description: Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) mentoring programs are community and school-based programs for youth (ages 14-18), LGBTQ2S+ children to build executive function skills and improve their social-emotional skills and resiliency.

Service description: Trained Home Visitors provide families with information and support that helps them improve their parenting skills and provide a safe, nurturing environment for their children. Home Visitors also link families to a network of community services and resources they can use to provide their children with a good start in life. Participation in home visitation programs is voluntary. Program services are based on family needs.

Service description: Family Champions works with families with children ages 0 to 18 years. Using workshops and interactive learning activities, parents and caregivers learn about different issues and strategies to support the healthy growth and development of their children.

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

Service description: Functional Family Therapy©(FFT) is an intensive, home-based, evidence-based model that works with the entire family aimed at improving family cohesion and supportiveness, and reducing toxic stress among all family members.

Service description: Infant/Parent Mental Health Support is a site-based program designed to improve the quality of parent-child interaction, parental reflective functioning, levels of secure attachment between parent and child – which in turn reduce the amount of mental health challenges experienced by children, safety risks in the home, and behavioural challenges.

Service description: Fathers Moving Forward is a strength-based caregiver support program for young fathers. The program’s goal is to support the healthy social and emotional development of children by increasing protective factors, specifically knowledge of parenting and child development, parental resilience, and access to support in times of need.

Service description: The Rapid Access Counselling program is a single session counselling service where families can access service when experiencing vulnerabilities without facing a lengthy waitlist. This 75-minute goal based and solution focused counselling service can be accessed by children, parents/caregivers and families as often as they need.

Service description: Youth programming that builds resiliency and skill development. Includes the Healthy Relationships program, drop-in programs, social-emotional learning, teen wellness, LGBTQ2S+ programming and 'The Skin You're In' program.

Service description: Trained Home Visitors provide families with information and support that helps them improve their parenting skills and provide a safe, nurturing environment for their children. Home Visitors also link families to a network of community services and resources they can use to provide their children with a good start in life. Participation in Home Visitation programs is voluntary. Program services are based on family needs.

Service description: A variety of programs are offered to strengthen caregivers parenting skills and knowledge, build resiliency, and create safe, responsive and nurturing environments which support healthy child development. Parent capacity building and education programs such as Triple P (0 - 18 years).

Service description: A variety of programs designed to promote children’s social, physical, emotional, cognitive and spiritual well-being. Every program will actively engage infants, children and their parents/caregivers by providing a range of activities that build and/or support the mastery of skills in all developmental domains.

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

Service description: Program provides culturally safe early development programming for Indigenous children 0-6 years and their parents, grandparents, and other significant caregivers. This universal 8 week program based on the Seven Sacred Teachings is followed by yearlong targeted culturally informed child development programming.

Service description: Culturally safe and trauma informed child and youth development programming for Indigenous children and youth 7-18 years and their parents, grandparents, and other significant caregivers. This program was developed in consultation with Indigenous Elders and Traditional Knowledge Holders.

Service description: The Indigenous cultural programs offered are grounded in the Cree Natural Law, Wahkotiwin, and The Aboriginal Healing Foundation’s (AHF) Healing Program Framework (2006), three necessary elements for promising interventions for Indigenous people: a) integration of an Indigenous world view in planning, design, and implementation, b) culturally safe healing environment, including opportunities for land-based work, and, c) helpers who are competent to heal.

Service description: Programs are culturally-based, trauma-informed and prioritizes family preservation. The team works with cultural safety to build positive relationships, set intervention goals, and support the individual or family to improve their overall well-being.

Service description: Trained Home Visitors provide families with information and support that helps them improve their parenting skills and provide a safe, nurturing environment for their children. Consultation with Elders, ceremonies and other cultural knowledge keepers, and cultural practices significant to family functioning and child rearing are integrated into Home Visitation services Home Visitors also link families to a network of community services and resources they can use to provide their children with a good start in life. Participation in Home Visitation programs is voluntary. Program services are based on family needs and provided at no cost to participants.

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

Service description: The Rapid Access Counselling program is a single session counselling service where families can access service when experiencing vulnerabilities without facing a lengthy waitlist. This 75-minute goal based and solution focused counselling service can be accessed by children, parents/caregivers and families as often as they need.

Service description: The programs and services at the Youth Resource Centre will include programming for youth that supports and focuses on building protective factors and prevents the development of risk factors and vulnerabilities. Programs include, Lead UP!, Flex Your Head, Project Backpack, Raise the Grade, and Keystone.

Service description: Claresholm Outreach operates a resource and referral office where vulnerable families are assisted in navigating service systems and accessing resources and help in times of need.

Service description: Caregiver Capacity & Parent Education encompasses a continuum of parenting and development promoting programs such as Alphabet Soup, Animal Tales, BASIS, Books for Babies, Building Blocks, Mentoring, LAPS, Pillowslip Stories, and Time for Rhymes.

Service description: Counselling services for families and caregivers that supports the development of protective factors while reducing risk factors.

Service description: A variety of programs and services for families with children 0-12 years that promotes a child's social, physical, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual well-being as well as parenting, family support programs for families with children 0-18 years, and community outreach support.

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

Service description: Trained Home Visitors provide families with information and support to help improve their parenting skills and provide a safe, nurturing environment for their children. Home Visitors also link families to a network of community services and resources they can use to provide their children with a good start in life. Participation in Home Visitation programs is voluntary. Program services are based on family needs.

Service description: The Stoney Family Resource Network (SFRN) promotes the physical, psychological-emotional and spiritual wellbeing of all infants, children and youth, and their families in the community of Morley and surrounding areas. Through a variety of prevention and early intervention programs, SFRN provides opportunities for healthy families through service delivery and access to resources.

Service description: Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) mentoring programs are community and school-based programs for youth (ages 14-18), LGBTQ2S+ children to build executive function skills and improve their social-emotional skills and resiliency.

Service description: Youth Therapist serves youth ages 14+ years who require intensive therapeutic counseling to address social, emotional and behavioural issues which may be the result of trauma. The goals for therapy will support improved mental health, building of skills such as emotional regulation and coping skills to recover from trauma, and teach youth how to strengthen interpersonal relationships and improve their problem solving capacity.

Service description: The In-Home Family Support Program will provide ‘targeted’ and ‘intensive’ in-home services to families of children 7-17 years old using the Families First Model. This evidence-based program will increase parent/caregiver knowledge and skill in the use of positive, developmentally appropriate parenting practices that will have a positive impact on child and youth social and emotional development and well-being.

Service description: Trained Home Visitors provide families with information and support that helps them improve their parenting skills and provide a safe, nurturing environment for their children. Home Visitors also link families to a network of community services and resources they can use to provide their children with a good start in life. Participation in Home Visitation programs is voluntary. Program services are based on family needs.

Service description: Variety of parenting and child development programs to build parenting capacity. This includes structured programs offered as 6 week, weekly, 2 hour sessions at various times of the week throughout the year with 10-12 sessions per year. Drop in and 1:1 parent education will be ongoing.

Service description: Variety of programs to facilitate and promote a child/youth’s spiritual, emotional, physical, cognitive, social and emotional development to assist them in reaching their developmental potential. Programs provide ‘brain-building’ opportunities to children/youth to build positive supportive relationships with their parents, peers and other adults and to learn executive functioning skills such as emotional self-regulation, decision making and planning ahead.

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

Service description: The Rapid Access Counselling program is a single session counselling service where families can access service when experiencing vulnerabilities without facing a lengthy waitlist. This 75-minute goal based and solution focused counselling service can be accessed by children, parents/caregivers and families as often as they need.

Service description: Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) mentoring programs are community and school-based programs for youth (ages 14-18), LGBTQ2S+ children to build executive function skills and improve their social-emotional skills and resiliency.

Service description: Functional Family Therapy©(FFT) is an intensive, home-based, evidence-based model that works with the entire family aimed at improving family cohesion and supportiveness, and reducing toxic stress among all family members.

Service description: Successful Young Parents is a multi-component program that serves young parents through a variety of intervention strategies that combine group support and activities with individualized support, including: one-on-one parent coaching and capacity-building; couple relationship and co-parenting group sessions; parent classes focused on self-regulation, healthy attachment, parenting skills and family resilience and building networks of connection and natural support in the community.

Service description: The Family Life Education spoke service offers a choice of 11 different multi-session parenting courses and 18 single-session parent capacity-building workshops that can be delivered on site at the HUB Centres as well as at community locations across the city.

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

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

Service description: Program provides flexible, in-home support services to families and their children (aged 7-18 years) in their own homes and communities. The Resilient Families Facilitators develop goals with the family to help them achieve success in their parenting, communication, conflict resolution and overall familial wellness.

Service description: This program will support newcomer parents and caregivers to help their children reach developmental milestones through parent-education (parents only), child-development programming, and parent-child interactive programming.

Service description: The Rapid Access Counselling program is a single session counselling service where families can access service when experiencing vulnerabilities without facing a lengthy waitlist. This 75-minute goal based and solution focused counselling service can be accessed by children, parents/caregivers and families as often as they need.

Service description: Early childhood programming, capacity building and educational workshops for parents and caregivers of infants and children from 0-6 years. Services consist of a range of services and planned activities focused on child development, early literacy, brain development, attachment and capacity building for parents including Circle of Security, Triple P Intensive Intervention.

Service description: The Children's Life Skills Program teaches life skills focusing on self-esteem, social skills, communication, and decision making to promote healthy personal development and essential life skills.

Service description: Skills for Life program focuses on skill development and enhancement through an experiential learning model. Twelve progressive sessions focus on youth empowerment, relationships, personal control, and healthy behaviours.

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

Service description: The Rapid Access Counselling program is a single session counselling service where families can access service when experiencing vulnerabilities without facing a lengthy waitlist. This 75-minute goal based and solution focused counselling service can be accessed by children, parents/caregivers and families as often as they need.

Service description: Trained Home Visitors provide families with information and support that helps them improve their parenting skills and provide a safe, nurturing environment for their children. Home Visitors also link families to a network of community services and resources they can use to provide their children with a good start in life. Participation in Home Visitation programs is voluntary. Program services are based on family needs.

Service description: SPEFSA Hub Outreach is a partner of the Provincial Francophonie Resource Network offering information and referrals and parent education activities including Triple P, Faber/Mazlish Workshops, fathers parenting classes, Mother Goose Program, and child and youth development promoting activities for Francophone families in Southern Alberta.

Service description: Siksika Family Services Corporation provides community-based prevention and early intervention programming to support healthy child, youth, family and community connections, knowledge sharing and support positive, culturally-based activities, parenting and family interactions. The programs promote healthy lifestyle choices, culture and language resiliency and culturally based mentorship and cross generation support. Cultural knowledge and community wellbeing are foundations of the Blackfoot Parenting Model and promoting child/youth development and behaviour aligned with self, family and community health and wellbeing.

Service description: Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) mentoring programs are community and school-based programs for youth (ages 14-18), LGBTQ2S+ children to build executive function skills and improve their social-emotional skills and resiliency.

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

Service description: The Family Life Education spoke service offers a choice of 11 different multi-session parenting courses and 18 single-session parent capacity-building workshops that will be deliver at the Hub location as in community locations across the city (libraries, community centres, other family serving agencies, family shelters, residential addictions programs, Calgary Corrections, etc.).

Service description: Successful Young Parents is a multi-component program that serves young parents through a variety of intervention strategies that combine group support and activities with individualized support, including: one-on-one parent coaching and capacity-building; couple relationship and co-parenting group sessions; parent classes focused on self-regulation, healthy attachment, parenting skills and family resilience and building networks of connection and natural support in the community.

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

Service description: Program provides flexible, in-home support services to families and their children in their own homes and communities. The Resilient Families Facilitators develop goals with the family to help them achieve success in their parenting, communication, conflict resolution and overall familial wellness.

Service description: The Rapid Access Counselling program is a single session counselling service where families can access service when experiencing vulnerabilities without facing a lengthy waitlist. This 75-minute goal based and solution focused counselling service can be accessed by children, parents/caregivers and families as often as they need.

Service description: Offers a variety of targeted caregiver capacity building programs including Triple P Standard, Circle of Security, psycho-educational sessions, and Nurturing Parents program etc. Focus is on caregivers with children aged 7-18 years.

Service description: The Early Childhood Development program offers a diverse array of child-parent groups including play/interaction groups, Parent Child Mother Goose, Triple P, Circle of Security etc.

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

Service description: Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) mentoring programs are community and school-based programs for youth (ages 14-18), LGBTQ2S+ children to build executive function skills and improve their social-emotional skills and resiliency.

Service description: The Home Visitation program delivers targeted and intensive Home Visitation services to build the capacity of parents (Immigrant, New Canadian, Indigenous, and Canadian) with children residing in Calgary. The program focuses on supporting parents with children under one year of age, however, the program provides support for all parents with children 0-6 years of age.

Service description: The Rapid Access Counselling program is a single session counselling service where families can access service when experiencing vulnerabilities without facing a lengthy waitlist. This 75-minute goal based and solution focused counselling service can be accessed by children, parents/caregivers and families as often as they need.

Service description: Trained Home Visitors provide caregivers with information and support that helps them improve parenting skills and provide a safe, nurturing environment for their children. Home Visitors also link families to a network of community services and resources they can use to provide their children with a good start in life. Participation in Home Visitation programs is voluntary. Program services are based on family needs.

Service description: Caregiver capacity building program for parents and their children aged 7-18 years. Programming includes Triple P Standard, Circle of Security, psycho-educational sessions, and parenting connection programs.

Service description: Caregiver capacity building programs including Triple P, Parent Education workshops, Exploring Feelings, Early Childhood Development including Mother Goose and developmental screening.

Service description: Youth programming that builds confidence and self esteem including goIT, Discovering Me, and Life Skills.

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

Service description: Caregiver Capacity Building services offered in Chestermere. Programs are universal, community-based, culturally relevant programs and services for caregivers with children ages 0-6 years of age, and occasionally for parents and caregivers with children ages 7-13 years of age. Programs focus on caregiver supports and educational opportunities to build the well-being and resiliency of caregivers and children by providing foundational skills, and supports when they are needed most.

Service description: Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) mentoring programs are community and school-based programs for youth (ages 14-18), LGBTQ2S+ children to build executive function skills and improve their social-emotional skills and resiliency.

Service description: The Family Life Education spoke service offers a choice of 11 different multi-session parenting courses and 18 single-session parent capacity-building workshops that can be delivered on site at the HUB Centre as well as at community locations across the city.

Service description: Program provides flexible, in-home support services to families and their children (aged 7-18 years) in their own homes and communities. The Resilient Families Facilitators develop goals with the family to help them achieve success in their parenting, communication, conflict resolution and overall familial wellness.

Service description: Friendship Group is a social skill training program that offers children the opportunity to learn and practice skills such as: being able to join in and get along with others easily; communicating effectively with peers; playing with others in a cooperative and fair manner; and managing conflicts peacefully. Serves children 5-8yrs and 8-11yrs.

Service description: The Rapid Access Counselling program is a single session counselling service where families can access service when experiencing vulnerabilities without facing a lengthy waitlist. This 75-minute goal based and solution focused counselling service can be accessed by children, parents/caregivers and families as often as they need.

Service description: Trained Home Visitors provide families with information and support that helps them improve their parenting skills and provide a safe, nurturing environment for their children. Home Visitors also link families to a network of community services and resources they can use to provide their children with a good start in life. Participation in Home Visitation programs is voluntary. Program services are based on family needs.

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

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Service description: The Indigenous cultural programs offered are grounded in the Cree Natural Law, Wahkotiwin, and The Aboriginal Healing Foundation’s (AHF) Healing Program Framework (2006), three necessary elements for promising interventions for Indigenous people: a) integration of an Indigenous world view in planning, design, and implementation, b) culturally safe healing environment, including opportunities for land-based work, and, c) helpers who are competent to heal.

Service description: Programs are culturally-based, trauma-informed and prioritizes family preservation. The team works with cultural safety to build positive relationships, set intervention goals, and support the individual or family to improve their overall well-being.

Service description: Trained Home Visitors provide families with information and support that helps them improve their parenting skills and provide a safe, nurturing environment for their children. Consultation with Elders, ceremonies and other cultural knowledge keepers ,and cultural practices significant to family functioning and child rearing are integrated into Home Visitation services Home Visitors also link families to a network of community services and resources they can use to provide their children with a good start in life. Participation in Home Visitation programs is voluntary. Program services are based on family needs and provided at no cost to participants.

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

Service description: The Rapid Access Counselling program is a single session counselling service where families can access service when experiencing vulnerabilities without facing a lengthy waitlist. This 75-minute goal based and solution focused counselling service can be accessed by children, parents/caregivers and families as often as they need.

Service description: Trained Home Visitors provide families with information and support that helps them improve their parenting skills and provide a safe, nurturing environment for their children. Home Visitors also link families to a network of community services and resources they can use to provide their children with a good start in life. Participation in Home Visitation is voluntary. Program services are based on family needs and provided at no cost to participants.

Service description: Support and education for families with children 0 -18 years experiencing difficulties or requiring assistance.

Service description: Intensive support to help families manage complex challenges and develop collaborative plans with community support networks.

Service description: Programming for families with children age 0-6 years which includes the use of developmental screening tools including the ASQ/ASQSE and Protective Factors Survey.

Service description: Rural Outreach services will support rural families to access spoke services that will increase family resiliency, reduce wait lists, decrease isolation and provide emotional support. By taking the services to families, barriers are removed and resources can be more easily accessed during times of need.

Service description: Virtual programming that connects families with social supports and parenting information for children age 0-13 years to reduce the stress of isolation.

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

Service description: This program provides a valuable learning opportunity as well as a support system for young teen parents to enhance their parenting skills.

Service description: This program provides support to parents of teenagers in order to add strategies to their parenting tool box.

Service description: This program creates long term connections resulting in increased natural supports for youth requiring additional supports.

Service description: Support for youth and their families that require support to manage multiple challenges in accessing needed community resources.

Service description: Trained Home Visitors provide caregivers with information and support that helps them improve their parenting skills and provide a safe, nurturing environment for their children. Home Visitors also link families to a network of community services and resources they can use to provide their children with a good start in life. Participation in Home Visitation is voluntary. Program services are based on family needs and provided at no cost to participants.

Service description: Family Support will serve families with children and youth aged 0 – 18 years. Programming is intended to build parental/caregiver resiliency and is focused on the family unit to promote family wellness. Programs are flexible and goal oriented to fit each family’s specific needs with a focus on strengthening protective factors and reducing risk factors for all members of the family.

Service description: Parent Education will serve families with children and youth aged 0-18 years. Parent education curriculums used are empirically supported and evidence based. Further examples of programming include Connect, Kids Have Stress Too, Triple P, Circle of Security and Active Parenting.

Service description: Child and Youth Development will serve families with youth aged 7 – 18 years. Program examples are social skills groups, life skills groups, anger management groups, coping skills groups and youth leadership development.

Service description: Early Childhood Development will serve families with children aged 0-6 years. Child activities will be directly related to: Fine Motor Skills, Gross Motor Skills, Communication Skills, Problem Solving Skills and Personal-Social Skills. Programs will include staff supervised Parent/Child Play; Developmental Screening Sessions with Ages and Stages Questionnaires; and Supported Play Sessions where collaborative partners (Occupational Therapists, Speech Pathologists) attend to assist parents with questions and strategies for improved developmental outcomes.

Service description: Rural Outreach services will support rural families to access spoke services that will increase family resiliency, reduce wait lists, decrease isolation and provide emotional support. By taking the services to families, barriers are removed and resources can be more easily accessed during times of need.

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

Service description: The Intensive Family Intervention Program provides therapeutic support to families, children and youth. Utilizing flexible delivery, a masters level clinician works with families to identify needs, set goals, connect them to resources, and deliver effective family therapy. 

Service description: Family Support will serve families with children and youth aged 0 – 18 years. Programming is intended to build parental/caregiver resiliency and is focused on the family unit to promote family wellness.  Programs are flexible and goal oriented to fit each family’s specific needs with a focus on strengthening protective factors and reducing risk factors for all members of the family.

Service description: Trained Home Visitors provide families with information and support that helps them improve their parenting skills and provide a safe, nurturing environment for their children. Home Visitors also link families to a network of community services and resources they can use to provide their children with a good start in life. Participation in Home Visitation is voluntary. Program services are based on family needs and provided at no cost to participants.

Service description: Parent Education will serve families with children and youth aged 0-18 years. Parent education curriculums used are empirically supported and evidence based.  Further examples of programming include Connect, Kids Have Stress Too, Triple P, Circle of Security and Active Parenting.

Service description: Child and Youth Development will serve families with youth aged 7 – 18 years. Program examples are social skills groups, life skills groups, anger management groups, coping skills groups and youth leadership development.

Service description: Early Childhood Development will serve families with children aged 0-6 years. Child activities will be directly related to: Fine Motor Skills, Gross Motor Skills, Communication Skills, Problem Solving Skills and Personal-Social Skills. Programs will include staff supervised Parent/Child Play; Developmental Screening Sessions with Ages and Stages Questionnaires; and Supported Play Sessions where collaborative partners (Occupational Therapists, Speech Pathologists) attend to assist parents with questions and strategies for improved developmental outcomes.

Service description: Rural Outreach services will support rural families to access spoke services that will increase family resiliency, reduce wait lists, decrease isolation and provide emotional support. By taking the services to families, barriers are removed and resources can be more easily accessed during times of need.

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

Service description: Family Support will serve families with children and youth aged 0 – 18 years. Programming is intended to build parental/caregiver resiliency and is focused on the family unit to promote family wellness.  Programs are flexible and goal oriented to fit each family’s specific needs with a focus on strengthening protective factors and reducing risk factors for all members of the family.

Service description: Trained Home Visitors provide families with information and support that helps them improve their parenting skills and provide a safe, nurturing environment for their children. Home Visitors also link families to a network of community services and resources they can use to provide their children with a good start in life. Participation in Home Visitation is voluntary. Program services are based on family needs and provided at no cost to participants.

Service description: Parent Education will serve families with children and youth aged 0-18 years. Parent education curriculums used are empirically supported and evidence based.  Further examples of programming include Connect, Kids Have Stress Too, Triple P, Circle of Security and Active Parenting.

Service description: Child and Youth Development will serve families with youth aged 7 – 18 years. Program examples are social skills groups, life skills groups, anger management groups, coping skills groups and youth leadership development.

Service description: Early Childhood Development will serve families with children aged 0-6 years. Child activities will be directly related to: Fine Motor Skills, Gross Motor Skills, Communication Skills, Problem Solving Skills and Personal-Social Skills. Programs will include staff supervised Parent/Child Play; Developmental Screening Sessions with Ages and Stages Questionnaires; and Supported Play Sessions where collaborative partners (Occupational Therapists, Speech Pathologists) attend to assist parents with questions and strategies for improved developmental outcomes.

Service description: Rural Outreach services will support rural families to access spoke services that will increase family resiliency, reduce wait lists, decrease isolation and provide emotional support. By taking the services to families, barriers are removed and resources can be more easily accessed during times of need.

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

Service description: Trained Home Visitors provide families with information and support that helps them improve their parenting skills and provide a safe, nurturing environment for their children. Home Visitors also link families to a network of community services and resources they can use to provide their children with a good start in life. Participation in Home Visitation is voluntary. Program services are based on family needs and provided at no cost to participants.

Service description: Support for families with complex needs to develop collaborative plans with community support networks which build or sustain stability and provides access to sufficient resources to meet basic needs.

Service description: Programming includes  parenting tools and curriculums such as Triple P Positive Parenting, Kids Have Stress Too and Emotion Coaching;  Ages & Stages Questionnaires, Ages & Stages Questionnaires Social Emotional and Child & Youth Resiliency Measures.

Service description: Rural Outreach services will support rural families to access spoke services that will increase family resiliency, reduce wait lists, decrease isolation and provide emotional support. By taking the services to families, barriers are removed and resources can be more easily accessed during times of need.

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

Service description: The Triple P – Positive Parenting Program is an internationally-recognized program that gives parents the skills they need to build strong family relationships, manage misbehaviour and prevent problems from happening in the first place. Accredited Supports to the Community can provide an individualized Triple P Program to meet families needs in their homes.

Service description: Trained Home Visitors provide caregivers with information and support that helps them improve their parenting skills and provide a safe, nurturing environment for their children. Home Visitors also link families to a network of community services and resources they can use to provide their children with a good start in life. Participation in Home Visitation is voluntary. Program services are based on family needs and provided at no cost to participants.

Service description: The Youth Services program supports families with youth aged 14 - 18 years, including information regarding a variety of parenting strategies, dealing with parent/teen conflict, and reduces the stress of isolation through making connections to supports within the community. Supports will be provided directly to youth where it is not possible to support the entire family unit.

Service description: The Middle Years program supports families with children aged 7 - 13 years, including information regarding a variety of parenting strategies, ongoing child growth and development and reduces the stress of isolation through making connections to supports within the community. Programming will also be available to support children in this age group directly, that would compliment supports being offered to their parents/caregivers.

Service description: The Early Years program supports families with children aged 0 - 6 years, including developmental screening, information regarding a variety of parenting strategies, and reduces the stress of isolation through making connections to supports within the community.

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

Service description: Trained Home Visitors provide families with information and support that helps them improve their parenting skills and provide a safe, nurturing environment for their children. Home Visitors also link families to a network of community services and resources they can use to provide their children with a good start in life. Participation in Home Visitation is voluntary. Program services are based on family needs and provided at no cost to participants.

Service description: Support to form new social connections for New Canadian families where English is their second language.

Service description: Family Support will serve families with children and youth aged 0 – 18 years. Programming is intended to build parental/caregiver resiliency and is focused on the family unit to promote family wellness.  Programs are flexible and goal oriented to fit each family’s specific needs with a focus on strengthening protective factors and reducing risk factors for all members of the family.

Service description: Parent Education will serve families with children and youth aged 0-18 years. Parent education curriculums used are empirically supported and evidence based.  Further examples of programming include Connect, Kids Have Stress Too, Triple P, Circle of Security and Active Parenting.

Service description: Early Childhood Development will serve families with children aged 0-6 years. Child activities will be directly related to: Fine Motor Skills, Gross Motor Skills, Communication Skills, Problem Solving Skills and Personal-Social Skills. Programs will include staff supervised Parent/Child Play; Developmental Screening Sessions with Ages and Stages Questionnaires; and Supported Play Sessions where collaborative partners (Occupational Therapists, Speech Pathologists) attend to assist parents with questions and strategies for improved developmental outcomes.

Service description: Child and Youth Development will serve families with youth aged 7 – 18 years. Program examples are social skills groups, life skills groups, anger management groups, coping skills groups and youth leadership development.

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

Service description: The Helping Me Grow Cultural Learning Centre provides culturally rooted programming for children 0 - 6 years and their families.

Service description: Four Directions provides culturally rooted prevention and early intervention programs and services that support and educate Indigenous and non-Indigenous children, families, and individuals.

Service description: Family Support will serve families with children and youth aged 0 – 18 years. Programming is intended to build parental/caregiver resiliency and is focused on the family unit to promote family wellness.  Programs are flexible and goal oriented to fit each family’s specific needs with a focus on strengthening protective factors and reducing risk factors for all members of the family.

Service description: Trained Home Visitors provide families with information and support that helps them improve their parenting skills and provide a safe, nurturing environment for their children. Home Visitors also link families to a network of community services and resources they can use to provide their children with a good start in life. Participation in Home Visitation is voluntary. Program services are based on family needs and provided at no cost to participants.

Service description: Parent Education will serve families with children and youth aged 0-18 years. Parent education curriculums used are empirically supported and evidence based.  Further examples of programming include Connect, Kids Have Stress Too, Triple P, Circle of Security and Active Parenting.

Service description: Child and Youth Development will serve families with youth aged 7 – 18 years. Program examples are social skills groups, life skills groups, anger management groups, coping skills groups and youth leadership development.

Service description: Early Childhood Development will serve families with children aged 0-6 years. Child activities will be directly related to: Fine Motor Skills, Gross Motor Skills, Communication Skills, Problem Solving Skills and Personal-Social Skills. Programs will include staff supervised Parent/Child Play; Developmental Screening Sessions with Ages and Stages Questionnaires; and Supported Play Sessions where collaborative partners (Occupational Therapists, Speech Pathologists) attend to assist parents with questions and strategies for improved developmental outcomes.

Service description: Rural Outreach services will support rural families to access spoke services that will increase family resiliency, reduce wait lists, decrease isolation and provide emotional support. By taking the services to families, barriers are removed and resources can be more easily accessed during times of need.

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

Service description: Traditional parenting provides support to families with children 0 - 6 years old through hands on culturally rooted education and supports for parents.

Service description: Family Support will serve families with children and youth aged 0 – 18 years. Programming is intended to build parental/caregiver resiliency and is focused on the family unit to promote family wellness.  Programs are flexible and goal oriented to fit each family’s specific needs with a focus on strengthening protective factors and reducing risk factors for all members of the family.

Service description: Trained Home Visitors provide families with information and support that helps them improve their parenting skills and provide a safe, nurturing environment for their children. Home Visitors also link families to a network of community services and resources they can use to provide their children with a good start in life. Participation in Home Visitation is voluntary. Program services are based on family needs and provided at no cost to participants.

Service description: Parent Education will serve families with children and youth aged 0-18 years. Parent education curriculums used are empirically supported and evidence based. Further examples of programming include Connect, Kids Have Stress Too, Triple P, Circle of Security and Active Parenting.

Service description: Child and Youth Development will serve families with youth aged 7 – 18 years. Program examples are social skills groups, life skills groups, anger management groups, coping skills groups and youth leadership development.

Service description: Early Childhood Development will serve families with children aged 0-6 years. Child activities will be directly related to: Fine Motor Skills, Gross Motor Skills, Communication Skills, Problem Solving Skills and Personal-Social Skills. Programs will include staff supervised Parent/Child Play; Developmental Screening Sessions with Ages and Stages Questionnaires; and Supported Play Sessions where collaborative partners (Occupational Therapists, Speech Pathologists) attend to assist parents with questions and strategies for improved developmental outcomes.

Service description: Rural Outreach services will support rural families to access spoke services that will increase family resiliency, reduce wait lists, decrease isolation and provide emotional support. By taking the services to families, barriers are removed and resources can be more easily accessed during times of need.

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

Service description: Individual and family counselling for adults, couples and youth experiencing depression, anxiety, trauma, PTSD or challenges with conflict resolution and/or emotional regulation.

Service description: Trained Home Visitors provide families with information and support that helps them improve their parenting skills and provide a safe, nurturing environment for their children. Home Visitors also link families to a network of community services and resources they can use to provide their children with a good start in life. Participation in Home Visitation is voluntary. Program services are based on family needs and provided at no cost to participants.

Service description: Provides parent education and support for families with children 0 - 18 years that are experiencing challenges with parenting strategies, stress and isolation, and accessing resources and connections in their community.

Service description: Coordinates and facilitates FRN evidence-based programs for children/youth aged 7 to 18 years and their families to provide inclusive programming that supports strengthening protective factors, reducing the impact of risk factors, providing social support, coping and problem solving skills, builds resiliency, and supporting positive child and youth development.  Programs will include Peer Mentoring, Leaders in Training, Stressbusters, Cultural/Gender diversity and Indigenous experience, Let’s Talk About…., Healthy Relationships workshops, Family Connect Nights, and information and referral supports for families.

Service description: Early childhood developmental programming.

Service description: Rural Outreach services will support rural families to access spoke services that will increase family resiliency, reduce wait lists, decrease isolation and provide emotional support. By taking the services to families, barriers are removed and resources can be more easily accessed during times of need.

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

Service description: Trained Home Visitors provide families with information and support that helps them improve their parenting skills and provide a safe, nurturing environment for their children. Home Visitors also link families to a network of community services and resources they can use to provide their children with a good start in life. Participation in Home Visitation is voluntary. Program services are based on family needs and provided at no cost to participants.

Service description: Support for families with complex needs to develop collaborative plans with community support networks which build or sustain stability and provide access to sufficient resources to meet basic needs.

Service description: Provides parent education and support for families with children 0 - 18 years in order to build their capabilities and confidence in parenting. The supports will aim to increase the foundation of life-long resiliency in infants, children, and youth, as well as their families.

Service description: Programs and services will include a continuum of services for families with children 0 - 18 years. Supports will include a focus on brain development, ensuring children and youth reach developmental milestones and experience positive executive functioning and emotional regulation, while supporting a safe and secure environment within the family and community.

Service description: Rural Outreach services will support rural families to access spoke services that will increase family resiliency, reduce wait lists, decrease isolation and provide emotional support. By taking the services to families, barriers are removed and resources can be more easily accessed during times of need.

Service description: This program will assist families with children 0 - 18 years, who are experiencing challenges with their parenting role to develop natural, culturally relevant supports and to create responsive and nurturing environments for their family.

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

Service description: Rural Outreach Services will support rural families to access spoke services that will increase family resiliency, reduce wait lists, decrease isolation and provide emotional support. By taking the services to families, barriers are removed and resources can be more easily accessed during times of need.

Service description: The Enrichment Home Visitation Program provides in-home parenting education and family support services to families whose children are 7-18 years of age. Home Visitors will ensure access to the program by facilitating in individual homes and community spaces, as well as addressing and reducing any barriers to participation within the Family Resource Network Area 6, including the City of Wetaskiwin, County of Wetaskiwin, Town of Ponoka, and County of Ponoka. The purpose of the program is to reduce risks and build protective factors that impact and improve personal and family functioning, develop a safe, nurturing environment for children, and increase healthy child development.

Service description: Indigenous Culture Services supports children, youth, and families to become actively involved in a cultural life by increasing the number of Indigenous experiences offered. Families will have access to culturally rooted programs and services, ensuring all individuals have the opportunity to learn and practice culture. The program collaborates with Indigenous people, Elders, and Knowledge Keepers, using the principles of Circle Process, Truth and Reconciliation, Relational Accountability, and Ceremony. Programming will reflect the holistic nature of Indigenous worldviews which considers the context and connection of children, family, and community well-being.

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

Service description: Family Support will serve families with children and youth aged 0 – 18 years. Programming is intended to build parental/caregiver resiliency and is focused on the family unit to promote family wellness.  Programs are flexible and goal oriented to fit each family’s specific needs with a focus on strengthening protective factors and reducing risk factors for all members of the family.

Service description: Trained Home Visitors provide families with information and support that helps them improve their parenting skills and provide a safe, nurturing environment for their children. Home Visitors also link families to a network of community services and resources they can use to provide their children with a good start in life. Participation in Home Visitation is voluntary. Program services are based on family needs and provided at no cost to participants.

Service description: Parent Education will serve families with children and youth aged 0-18 years. Parent education curriculums used are empirically supported and evidence based. Further examples of programming include Connect, Kids Have Stress Too, Triple P, Circle of Security and Active Parenting.

Service description: Child and Youth Development will serve families with youth aged 7-18 years. Program examples are social skills groups, life skills groups, anger management groups, coping skills groups and youth leadership development.

Service description: Early Childhood Development will serve families with children aged 0-6 years. Child activities will be directly related to: Fine Motor Skills, Gross Motor Skills, Communication Skills, Problem Solving Skills and Personal-Social Skills. Programs will include staff supervised Parent/Child Play; Developmental Screening Sessions with Ages and Stages Questionnaires; and Supported Play Sessions where collaborative partners (Occupational Therapists, Speech Pathologists) attend to assist parents with questions and strategies for improved developmental outcomes.

Service description: Rural Outreach services will support rural families to access spoke services that will increase family resiliency, reduce wait lists, decrease isolation and provide emotional support. By taking the services to families, barriers are removed and resources can be more easily accessed during times of need.

Service description: Traditional parenting provides support to families with children 0 - 6 years old through hands on culturally rooted education and supports for parents.

Service description: Programs are varied and aim to facilitate and promote a child/youth’s spiritual, emotional, physical, cognitive, social and emotional development to assist them in reaching their developmental potential. Programs provide ‘brain-building’ opportunities to children/youth to build positive supportive relationships with their parents, peers and other adults and to learn executive functioning skills such as emotional self-regulation, decision making and planning ahead.

Service description: Programs are varied and aim to facilitate and promote a child/youth’s spiritual, emotional, physical, cognitive, social and emotional development to assist them in reaching their developmental potential. Programs provide ‘brain-building’ opportunities to children/youth to build positive supportive relationships with their parents, peers and other adults and to learn executive functioning skills such as emotional self-regulation, decision making and planning ahead.

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

Service description: Parent Education programming serve families with children and youth aged 0-18 years. Parent/caregiver education is intended to help families gain knowledge about parenting and their child's development.

Service description: Trained Home Visitors provide families with information and support that helps them improve their parenting skills and provide a safe, nurturing environment for their children.  Home Visitors also link families to a network of community services and resources they can use to provide their children with a good start in life. Participation in Home Visitation is voluntary. Program services are based on family needs and provided at no cost to participants.

Service description: This program focuses on supporting vulnerable children and their parents/caregivers. This program is for families experiencing extreme moments of adversity. The intent is to build parenting skills and capacity and provides parents with free, short-term planned and unplanned, child care

Service description: Trained Home Visitors provide caregivers with information and support that helps them improve their parenting skills and provide a safe, nurturing environment for their children.  Home Visitors also link families to a network of community services and resources they can use to provide their children with a good start in life.  Participation in Home Visitation is voluntary.  Program services are based on family needs and provided at no cost to participants.

Service description: Programs are varied and aim to facilitate and promote a youth’s spiritual, emotional, physical, cognitive, social and emotional development to assist them in reaching their developmental potential. Programs provide ‘brain-building’ opportunities to youth to build positive supportive relationships with their parents, peers and other adults and to learn executive functioning skills such as emotional self-regulation, decision making and planning ahead.

Service description: Using Indigenous Ways of Knowing and specific staff and resources, parent education and family support programming will serve families with children and youth aged 0-18 years. Parent/caregiver education and family support is intended to help families gain knowledge about parenting and their child’s development.

Service description: Parent Education programming serve families with children and youth aged 0-18 years. Parent/caregiver education is intended to help families gain knowledge about parenting and their child’s development.

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

Service description: This program supports caregivers to build healthy attachments, healthy relationships, and healthy families in order to improve overall family functioning. Families will learn to improve communication and advocacy skills to create safe, responsive, and nurturing environments.

Service description: Cultural based teachings and ceremony are able to assist caregivers and baby to understand the importance of bonding and how it is done culturally.

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

Service description: Trained Home Visitors provide families with information and support that helps them improve their parenting skills and provide a safe, nurturing environment for their children.  Home Visitors also link families to a network of community services and resources they can use to provide their children with a good start in life. Participation in Home Visitation is voluntary. Program services are based on family needs and provided at no cost to participants.

Service description: The Family Resource Centre offers a wide range of cultural programming for children and their families to support healthy child development. This program supports families with children of all ages-ranges to be better supported. Caregivers will have access to all Bent Arrow’s programs, such as Traditional Parenting, Family Night, and Elders Breakfast. The Family Resource Centre will offer childcare, meals, and bus tickets to our families attending the Centre.

Service description: Programs are varied and aim to facilitate and promote a youth’s spiritual, emotional, physical, cognitive, social and emotional development to assist them in reaching their developmental potential. Programs provide ‘brain-building’ opportunities to youth to build positive supportive relationships with their parents, peers and other adults and to learn executive functioning skills such as emotional self-regulation, decision making and planning ahead.

Service description: The Relentless Connectors initiative aims to reduce the need for formal intervention by Children’s Services by meeting the emerging needs of families dealing with multiple risk factors before they reach the crisis threshold for intervention. This program is available through Hub referral.

Service description: Dad Engagement and Support will offer Home Visitation to fathers in need. Trained Home Visitors provide families with information and support that helps them improve their parenting skills and provide a safe, nurturing environment for their children.  Home Visitors also link families to a network of community services and resources they can use to provide their children with a good start in life.  Participation in Home Visitation is voluntary.  Program services are based on family needs and provided at no cost to participants.

Service description: Various parenting programs are offered for each age cohort through groups or workshops. In addition, one-on-one support and referral to program participants is provided to ensure that families have access to needed services and community resources to address their needs.

Service description: Programs are varied and aim to facilitate and promote a child/youth’s spiritual, emotional, physical, cognitive, social and emotional development to assist them in reaching their developmental potential. Programs provide ‘brain-building’ opportunities to children/youth to build positive supportive relationships with their parents, peers and other adults and to learn executive functioning skills such as emotional self-regulation, decision making and planning ahead.

Service description: Programs are varied and aim to facilitate and promote a child/youth’s spiritual, emotional, physical, cognitive, social and emotional development to assist them in reaching their developmental potential. Programs provide ‘brain-building’ opportunities to children/youth to build positive supportive relationships with their parents, peers and other adults and to learn executive functioning skills such as emotional self-regulation, decision making and planning ahead.

Service description: Cultural Programs that aim to facilitate and promote a child/youth’s spiritual, emotional, physical, cognitive, social and emotional development to assist them in reaching their developmental potential. Programs provide ‘brain-building’ opportunities to children/youth to build positive supportive relationships with their parents, peers and other adults and to learn executive functioning skills such as emotional self-regulation, decision making and planning ahead. Culturally attuned family support program that supports caregivers to build healthy attachments, healthy relationships, and healthy families in order to improve overall family functioning. Families will learn to improve communication and advocacy skills to create safe, responsive, and nurturing environments.

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