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Provincial Family Resource Network

Provincial Family Resource Networks – Current as of June 8, 2020

Classification: Protected A

North Region

Location Hub or Spoke / Name of Agency

Preferred contact during COVID

Name of Program/Service

Description of services during COVID-19 Remote service delivery method(s)

High Level Communities served: High Level, Mackenzie County, Rainbow Lake

Hub: High Level Toy Lending Library Society

780-926-4668

Spoke: High Level Toy Lending Library Society

Mackenzie Family Resource Network, Home Visitation

Home visitation promotes positive parent-child relationships, improve parenting knowledge and skills, foster healthy child development, help families access the network of formal and informal services and supports available in their own communities, promote family wellness and help build strong communities.

Phone and video conferencing.

Spoke: High Level Toy Lending Library Society

Parent Education and Child Development Program (All Ages)

Programming about positive parenting and how to interact with your children.


Spoke: WJS Canada

Family Resilience Program

This program provides targeted and intensive supports for families with children 7-18 years of age. The in-home family support is to increase the family’s skills and abilities to manage day-to-day parental stressors and to enhance each family’s ability to care for their children. The program focuses on various areas but is not limited to: communication skills, sibling rivalry, conflict resolution, parental styles, child behavioral issues, co-parenting, parent-teen mediation, positive strategies with difficult behaviors, enhancing family connection and referrals to other resources or supports.


Peace River Communities served: Berwyn, Birch Hills County, Clear Hills, Fairview, Fairview No. 136, Grimshaw,

Hub: Town of Peace River

780-624-0770

Spoke: WJS Canada

Family Resiliency Program (Diversion)

This program provides targeted and intensive supports for families with children 7-18 years of age. The in-home family support is to increase the family’s skills and abilities to manage day-to-day parental stressors and to enhance each family’s ability to care for their children. The program

Phone and video conferencing








Hines Creek, Little Buffalo, Manning, Nampa, Northern Lights County, Northern Sunrise County, Peace No. 135, Peace River

focuses on various areas but is not limited to: communication skills, sibling rivalry, conflict resolution, parental styles, child behavioral issues, co-parenting, parent-teen mediation, positive strategies with difficult behaviors, enhancing family connection and referrals to other resources or supports.

Spoke: Town of Peace River

Home Visitation Home Visitation program is a voluntary, free program, available for families with children 0 to 6 years of age. This program will strengthen and support families and caregivers by building relationships, teaching problem-solving skills, encouraging positive parent-child relationships and supporting early child growth and development.

Phone, video conferencing, and online options

Spoke: WJS Canada


Program provides targeted and intensive supports for families with children 7-18. Home visits are an essential component of service delivery of the Family Resilience Program. Our Early Intervention Workers deliver services where needed according to family members’ preferences.


Grande Prairie Communities served: Beaverlodge, Grande Prairie, Grande Prairie County No. 1, Hythe, Rycroft, Saddle Hills County, Sexsmith, Spirit River, Spirit River No. 133, Wembley

Hub: Grande Prairie Family Education Society

780-830-0843

Spoke: Grande Prairie Family Education Society

Home Visitation Program

Family/caregiver support services. Providing developmental screens over FaceTime. Providing wellness and self-care information and activities to families. Case conference support via conference calls. Developmental activities and resources for families. Providing parental supports like positive parenting strategies. The ability to drop off essentials to families in need (diapers, formula based on donations). Continuing to set and review family goals and service plans.

Phone call check ins and virtual check ins using FaceTime.

Spoke: Grande Prairie Family Education Society

Parent Education Family/caregiver support services. Providing wellness and self-care information and activities to families. Providing parental supports

Phone call check ins and virtual check ins using FaceTime.








like positive parenting strategies. Continuing to set and review family’s goals and service plans.

Spoke: Native Counselling Services of Alberta (NCSA)

Diversion Services Grounded in an Indigenous worldview, provides supports to families with children and youth aged 7-17. Support to navigate systems and access services, address issues of historic trauma, mentorship, telephone access to Elders and ceremonial support to strengthen connections to family, community and culture.

Telephone, video conferencing, social media, and curbside supports

Spoke: Pregnant and Parenting Teens

Home Visitation Providing family and caregiver support services via Home visitation for pregnant and parenting teens. Services are provided for children ages 0-6 and their families.

Services will be offered by email, video conferencing, and other online options.

Spoke: YMCA of Northern Alberta

Grande Prairie Family Capacity Building

Providing intensive and targeted services to assist families with children to address familial challenges, stabilize home environments and build resilient family units.

Services will be offered by phone, video conferencing, and other online options.

High Prairie Communities served: Big Lakes County, Desmarais, Donnelly, Falher, Girouxville, High Prairie, Lesser Slave River No.124, McLennan, Opportunity No. 17, Slave Lake, Smoky River No. 130

Hub: High Prairie and District Children’s Resource Council

780-523-2715

Spoke: WJS Canada











Spoke: High Prairie and District Children’s Resource Council


Family/caregiver support services. Providing wellness and self-care information and activities to families. Providing parental supports like positive parenting strategies. Continuing to set and review family’s goals and service plans

Telephone, video conferencing, social media

Spoke: WJS Canada


Program provides targeted and intensive supports for families with children 7-18. Home visits are an essential component of service delivery of the Family Resilience Program.

Services will be offered by phone.

Whitecourt Communities served: Alberta Beach, Birch Cove, Castle Island, Fox Creek, Greenview No. 16, Lac Ste. Anne County, Mayerthorpe, Nakamun Park, Onoway, Ross Haven, Sandy Beach, Silver Sands, South View, Sunrise Beach, Sunset Point, Swan Hills, Val Quentin, Valleyview, West Cove, Whitecourt, Woodlands County, Yellowstone

Hub: Healthy Families Healthy Futures

780-307-2444

Spoke: Healthy Families Healthy Futures

Healthy Families Home Visitation

Providing parenting support: age appropriate activities, referral and connections to resources and natural supports parenting tips.

Services will be offered by phone, email and video conferencing.

Spoke: Swan Hills FCSS

Caregiver Education and Child/Youth Development

Programming about positive parenting and how to interact with your children.

Services will be offered by phone, email, video conferencing, and other online options.

Spoke: Town of Whitecourt

Diversion Services The Diversion program is a Family Support Program that provides a continuum of services in the home and in the community with the aim to effectively support, strengthen and preserve families through a client centered approach that encompasses the existing strengths and resiliency of families.

Virtual/phone check-ins and support, virtual groups both youth and parent education, drop-off of family kits

Spoke: Town of Fox Creek


Family and caregiver support services. Home Visitation and Parent Education.

Currently offering more generalized supports to clients via email, phone, social media, text, and online platforms like Zoom.

Fort McMurray Communities served: Fort Mackay, Improvement District No. 24

Hub: The HUB Family Resource Centre

780-743-9225

Spoke: The HUB Family Resource Centre

Caregiver Education, Child Development, and Social Connections

Providing information about child and youth related developmental stages; providing parents with parenting strategies; supporting family and network supports in time of social distancing.

Services will be offered by phone, email, video conferencing, and other online platforms.








Wood Buffalo, Wood Buffalo

Spoke: WJS Canada




Athabasca Communities served: Athabasca, Boyle, Calling Lake, Caslan, Lac la Biche, Grassland, Plamondon, Rochester

Hub: Athabasca County Family and Community Support Services

780-675-2623

Spoke: Athabasca County FCSS

Family Wellness Program

Providing intensive and targeted services to assist families with children to address familial challenges, stabilize home environment and build resilient family units.

Services will be provided by phone and email.

Spoke: Lac La Biche Canadian Native Friendship Centre

Indigenous Parenting Providing parenting support: age appropriate activities, referral and connections to resources and natural supports parenting tips.

Services will be offered by phone, email and other online options.

Spoke: Athabasca County FCSS

Family Centre Providing information about child and youth related developmental stages; providing parents with parenting strategies, supporting family and network supports in time of social distancing.

Services will be provided online.



Providing parenting support: age appropriate activities, referral and connections to resources and natural supports parenting tips.

Services will be provided by phone, email and other online options.

Spoke: Lac La Biche County FCSS

It Takes a Village Providing information about child and youth related developmental stages; providing parents with parenting strategies, supporting family and network supports in time of social distancing.

Services will be provided by phone.








Bonnyville Communities served: Bonnyville, Bonnyville Beach, Bonnyville No. 87, Cold Lake, Elk Point, Glendon, Horseshoe Bay, Improvement District No. 349, Pelican Narrows, St. Paul, St. Paul County No. 19, Vilna

Hub: Town of Bonnyville

780-826-2120

Spoke: Town of St. Paul FCSS

Caregiver Capacity Building and Child Development

Providing information about child and youth related developmental stages; providing parents with parenting strategies, supporting family and network supports in time of social distancing.

Services will be provided by phone and video conferencing.

Spoke: Native Counselling Services of Alberta

Kiyohkatowin – Home Visitation

Grounded in an Indigenous worldview will mentor pre-natal women, parents and caregivers in their home/community by supporting 0-6 children’s growth and development through deliberate and culturally appropriate caregiving.

Services will be provided by telephone, video conferencing, social media, and curbside supports


Wahkomiwew Grounded in an Indigenous worldview, provides supports to families with children and youth aged 7-17. Support to navigate systems and access services, address issues of historic trauma, mentorship, telephone access to Elders and ceremonial support to strengthen connections to family, community and culture.

Services will be provided by telephone, video conferencing, social media, and curbside supports

Spoke: City of Cold Lake

Caregiver Education Program Family Support Program Child Development Program

Providing information about child and youth related developmental stages; providing parents with parenting strategies; supporting families with age appropriate activities for ages 0-18, referral and connections to resources and natural supports within the community during time of social distancing.

Services will be offered by phone and email.

Westlock Communities served: Barrhead, Barrhead County No. 11, Clyde, Larkspur, Smoky Lake, Smoky Lake County, Thorhild County, Waskatenau, Westlock

Hub: Healthy Families Healthy Futures

780-307-2444

Spoke: Barrhead and District FCSS

Family Connections Centre

Providing information about child and youth related developmental stages; providing parents with parenting strategies; supporting family and network supports in time of social distancing.

Services will be provided by phone, email, video conferencing and other online options.


Westlock Family Connections

Early Childhood, Child, and Youth Development programming including Triple P Parenting and developmental screening.

Services will be provided by phone, email, video








conferencing and webinar.

Spoke: Thorhild County

Thorhild Family Resource Centre

Providing information about child and youth related developmental stages; providing parents with parenting strategies; supporting family and network supports in time of social distancing; referral to other agencies.


Spoke: WJS Canada




Vegreville Communities served: Andrew, Bruderheim, Chipman, Improvement District No. 13 Elk Island, Innisfree, Lamont, Lamont County, Minburn County No. 27, Mundare, Myrnam, Two Hills, Two Hills County No. 21, Vegreville, Willingdon

Hub: Town of Vegreville

780-632-2912

Spoke: Lamont County

Caregiver Capacity and Parenting Support

Services offered will include parenting workshops online, providing families’ activities and fun challenges through social media and family Mental Health activity packs.

Services offered online and through social media.

Spoke: Mannville-Minburn-Innisfree FCSS

Family and Caregiver Support

Providing information about child developmental stages; providing parents with parenting strategies; supporting family and network supports in time of social distancing.

Services being provided by phone and email.

Spoke: Town of Vegreville

Caregiver Capacity and Child Development

Services offered will include Triple P tip sheets online, Kids have Stress Too online sessions via Google Meet and Google Classroom, Early Learning Adventures videos, and online morning Google Meetups with local families.

Services offered online.

Spoke: WJS Canada


This program provides targeted and intensive supports for families with children 7-18 years of age. The in-home family support is to increase the









family’s skills and abilities to manage day-to-day parental stressors and to enhance each family’s ability to care for their children. The program focuses on various areas but is not limited to: communication skills, sibling rivalry, conflict resolution, parental styles, child behavioral issues, co-parenting, parent-teen mediation, positive strategies with difficult behaviors, enhancing family connection and referrals to other resources or supports.

Jasper Communities served: Edson, Grande Cache, Greenview No. 16, Hinton, Improvement District No. 12 Jasper Park, Improvement District No. 25 Willmore Wilderness, Jasper, Yellowhead County

Hub: Municipality of Jasper

780-852-2100

Spoke: Edson Friendship Centre

Jasper and Area Home Visitation

Family support services to caregivers and Home Visitation Pre/Postnatal .

Support though phone calls, texting, zoom, and other online options.

Spoke: Edson Friendship Centre

Diversion Program The Diversion program is a Family Support Program that provides a continuum of services in the home and in the community with the aim to effectively support, strengthen and preserve families through a client centered approach that encompasses the existing strengths and resiliency of families. Workers will present children 7+, youth, adults and families with information and material on issues related to family functioning, child development, communication, stress, positive attachments and strong problem-solving skills.

Services will be provided by phone, email, video conferencing and other online options.

Spoke: Hinton Friendship Centre


Home Visitation promotes positive parent-child relationships, improves parenting knowledge and skills, fostesr healthy child development, helps families access the network of formal and informal services and supports available in their own communities, promote family wellness and help build strong communities.

Services offered through video conferencing and phone calls.


Family Support Services – Diversion Program

The Diversion Program will use the Circle of Security and Positive Youth Development approach to support children, youth and families with children aged 7-18.










Mamowichihitowin Community Wellness

The Mamowichihitowin offer therapeutic services. This program combines Western, evidence-based models (such as Narrative therapy, Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), and Family Systems Theory) with traditional Indigenous teachings and worldview (e.g. Medicine Wheel teachings, Seven Grandfather teachings, etc.) to address Historical Trauma Transmission affecting Children and their families.



Diversion The Diversion program is a Family Support Program that provides a continuum of services in the home and in the community with the aim to effectively support, strengthen and preserve families through a client centered approach that encompasses the existing strengths and resiliency of families.

Services will be provided by phone and video conferencing

Spoke: Municipality of Jasper


Family and caregiver support services, which include: Providing developmental screening. Providing wellness and self-care information and activities to families through video conferencing. Currently Home Visitation staff is offering the Circle of Security parenting program. FRN Workers providing vulnerable families supported referrals to other services (Food Bank, Public Health, Mental Health, etc.). FRN Workers support vulnerable families with completing assistance applications (EI, COVID-19 assistance applications, etc.)

Phone calls, video conferencing, emails, zoom, and check ins using Face Time.



Services offered will include parenting workshops for all ages

Phone calls, video conferencing, emails, zoom, and check ins using Face Time.


Middle Years Service FRN staff will provide evidence-based education, training and skill building classes for parents and caregivers that promote a healthy parent-child relationship, safe nurturing home environments and positive parenting practices.

Services will be provided by phone.








Spoke: Town of Hinton

Caregiver Education and Support

Activity-based interactive workshops for caregivers and children to learn skills together and parenting education. Parenting education will include concepts from formal programs such as the Positive Parenting Program, the Brain Core Story, and Kids Have Stress Too, as well as issuing tip sheets, information from relevant agencies (e.g. Alberta Health Services), or sharing expertise from guest speakers (e.g. dietician, optometrist, psychologist).

Using online resources, phone calls and video conferencing.

Edmonton Region


Preferred contact during COVID Name of Program/Service

Description of Services during COVID-19 Remote service delivery method(s)

North Central Edmonton

Hub: YMCA of Northern Alberta

780-377-3730


Family/Caregiver Education

Parent Education programming serve families with children and youth. Parent/caregiver education will support families to gain knowledge about parenting and their child’s development. Programming provides wellness activities to families, in addition children and youth can access programs like healthy relationships and how to adult.

Services will be provided by phone, video conferencing and other online resources.


Family Supports

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. Home visits are provided to families with at least one child between the ages of 7-18. Families set and review goals








and service plans. Goal of the program is to address challenges the family is experiencing and to build upon the strengths of the family.


Home Visitation 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.


Spoke: Boys & Girls Clubs Big Brothers Big Sisters of Edmonton and Area Society

Mentoring

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.

Services will be delivered by phone and other online resources

Spoke: Creating Hope Society of Alberta

Cultural Family Support

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. Parent/caregiver education and family support is intended to help families gain knowledge about parenting and their child’s development.

Services will be provided by phone and other online resources.

Spoke: KARA Family Resource Centre

Early Childhood Development

A number of programs and opportunities for families with children aged 0-6. These programs focus on the parent/child relationship by providing different activities and resources that support early learning and development.

Services will be delivered by phone and other online resources.

Northeast Edmonton

Hub: Boyle Street Service Society/C5

780-478-6060 780-478-4106 Ext. 340







Spoke: Terra Centre for Teen Parents

Family Learning Program (Home Visitation)

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 and provided at no cost to participants.

Services will be provided by phone, email and video conferencing.

Spoke: The Candora Society of Edmonton

Family Support and Outreach

Offering one-to-one support for families to meet needs during the COVID-19 pandemic and connecting families to resources.


Spoke: Bent Arrow Traditional Healing Society

Indigenous Cultural Family Supports & Outreach Services

Indigenous Cultural Family Supports provide traditional parenting teachings through various programs and services. Parent/caregiver education will support families to gain knowledge about parenting and their child’s development.


Spoke: Edmonton Mennonite Centre for Newcomers/C5

Securing Hopeful Futures

Programming focuses on building the leadership and social/emotional development of youth. 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.


Spoke: Norwood Child and Family Resource Centre

Home Visitation 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 and provided at no cost to participants.

West Edmonton Hub: Jasper Place Child and Family Resource Society

780-489-2243


Mentoring



Spoke: The Family Centre of Northern Alberta

Intensive Family Support

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.


Spoke: Terra Centre for Teen Parents

Family Learning Program (Home Visitation)



Spoke: Jasper Place Child and Family Resource Society

Play, Learn, Connect

A number of programs and opportunities for families with children aged 0-6. These programs focus on the parent/child relationship by providing different activities and resources that support early learning and development.


Spoke: Jasper Place Child and

Parent and Caregiver Education

Parent Education programming serve families with children and youth aged 0-18.

Services will be delivered by phone







Family Resource Society

Parent/caregiver education is intended to help families gain knowledge about parenting and their child’s development.

and other online resources.

Edmonton – Indigenous Supporting

Hub: The Red Road Healing Society

780-471-3220

Spoke: Ben Calf Robe

Home Visitation

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.

Services will be delivered by phone.


Youth Support

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.


Spoke: Metis Child and Family Services

Aboriginal Child & Family Support Program









Spoke: The Red Road Healing Society

Red Road Parent Education

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



Red Road Family Outreach Services




Red Road Early Childhood Development

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


Edmonton – Indigenous Supporting

Hub: Bent Arrow Traditional Healing Society

780-481-3451


Home Visitation - In Home Family Support (0 to 6)




Home Visitation/Parent Education for Fathers

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

Services will be delivered by phone and video conference.









Family Resource Centre (Parent Education Programming)

Caregivers will have access to all Bent Arrow’s programs, such as Traditional Parenting, Family Night, and Elders Breakfast. Parent Education programming serve families with children and youth aged 0-18. Parent/caregiver education is intended to help families gain knowledge about parenting and their child developments.



Relentless Connector

The Relentless Connector provides wraparound supports to families who have had past CI involvement and are also involved with multiple supports and systems. Relentless Connectors assist overwhelmed caregivers to navigate and access services by helping the family to organize and coordinate and over time to find and build natural supports like family, friends and supports from the community. Together a plan is developed to help families who are in crisis access the resources they need so that children can remain in the care of their families.



Youth Development and Life Skills Program


Services will be delivered through online resources.

Sherwood Park/Strathcona County and Area

Hub: Strathcona County

780-464-4044

Spoke: Boys & Girls Clubs Big Brothers Big

Mentoring

Programs provide ‘brain-building’ opportunities to children/youth to build positive supportive relationships with their parents, peers and other adults and to learn








Sisters of Edmonton and Area Society

executive functioning skills such as emotional self-regulation, decision making and planning ahead

Spoke: Boys and Girls Club of Strathcona County

Strathcona County Youth Outreach Programming



Spoke: Strathcona County

Home Visitation 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 and provided at no cost to participants.



Child and Youth Developmental Programming

Offering developmental screenings and workshops.

Services will be provided through phone, email, video conferencing and webinar.


Parenting Support Will be offering phone support to families, workshops, and virtual one-to-one family support by phone, email, video conferencing and webinar.

Services will be provided by phone, online, email, videoconferencing and webinar.








Social Connections

Programming supports children, youth, and families with assistance to build positive connections and relationships within their community. Programs provide participant the opportunity to develop natural supports within groups and community.

Services will be provided by phone, email and video conferencing

St. Albert and Area

Hub: St. Albert Family Resource Network

780-459-7377

Spoke: St. Albert Family Resource Centre

Family Life Education Program

Will be offering Facebook Live videos of parent/child activities with an educational component. Will be offering parenting courses through video conference. Parent coaches also doing quick educational sessions on Facebook Live. Offering virtual parenting group, Just for Parents, weekly.

Services will be provided online through social media.

Spoke: St. Alberta Family Resource Centre

Family Support Program ( Home Visitation)


Services will be provided by phone, email, video conference and other online resources.


Youth Development and Life Skills Program



Stony Plain, Spruce Grove &

Hub: Alberta Parenting for the

780-963-0549







Parkland County and Area Communities served: Betula Beach, Kapasiwin, Lakeview, Parkland County, Point Alison, Seba Beach, Spring Lake, Spruce Grove, Stony Plain, Wabamun

Future Association Family Resource Network

Spoke: Alberta Parenting for the Future Association




Child and Youth Development Program

Engaging activities posted on social media. Services will be provided through social media.


Family Support Groups

Various support groups are available for families and caregivers. Groups are intended to assist families with common needs to build relationships and connections. Support groups do provide education and information, in addition to facilitating relationships in a group setting.

Services will be provided by video conference.


Parent Education Programming


Services will be delivered by phone, video conference, and other online options.


Mentoring

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








Spoke: Lobstick Successful Kids & Families Society

Youth Support/Center Board

Youth have a safe, fun place to gather where they can contribute to their community by planning activities and programs that encourage connections and relationships. Programs provide participant the opportunity to develop natural supports within groups and community.


Spoke: Lobstick Successful Kids & Families Society


Various programs and opportunities for families with children aged 0-6. These programs focus on the parent and child relationship by providing different activities and resources that support early year’s development.



wâhkômiwêw (BEING CONNECTED TO PEOPLE)

Grounded in an Indigenous worldview, provides supports to families with children and youth aged 7-17. Support to navigate systems and access services, address issues of historic trauma, mentorship, telephone access to Elders and ceremonial support to strengthen connections to family, community and culture.

Services will be delivered by Telephone, video conferencing, social media, and curbside supports.


kiyôhkatowin (Home Visitation)

Grounded in an Indigenous worldview will mentor pre-natal women, parents and caregivers in their home/community by supporting 0-6 children’s growth and development through deliberate and culturally appropriate caregiving.

Services will be delivered by Telephone, video conferencing, social media, and curbside supports.

Leduc County (Devon & Beaumont) Communities served: Beaumont, Calmar, Devon, Itaska Beach, Leduc County,

Hub: Leduc County Family and Community Support Services

780-979-2385

Spoke: Leduc County Family and Community Support Services


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








Sundance Beach, Thorsby, Warburg

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.

Spoke: Leduc County Family and Community Support Services

Family Support, Parent Education and Child and Youth Development (Live from Leduc County)

A number of different programs and services are available to support families. Specific programs are designed to meet the developmental needs of infants, children and youth. Families can access a range of services being offered that can help them learn about parenting and child development. These programs can be delivered one to one or in group settings. Additional services are available for children and youth that focus on their development and skill building.

Services will be delivered by phone and video conferencing.





Leduc Hub: City of Leduc, Family and Community Support Services

780-980-7109

Spoke: Boys and Girls Club of Leduc


Programming that focusses on the needs of children and youth, social emotional wellness, life skills and leadership development.

Services to be provided by video conference and other online resources.

Spoke: City of Leduc, Family and Community Support Services

Home Visitation – In-Home Family Support

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.

Spoke: City of Leduc, Family and Community Support Services

Early Childhood Development and Family Support


Services will be provided by phone and online.





Fort Saskatchewan Communities served: Bon Accord, Fort Saskatchewan, Gibbons, Legal, Morinville, Redwater, Sturgeon County

Hub: Fort Saskatchewan Families First Society

780-998-5595





Spoke: Fort Saskatchewan Boys and Girls Club

Youth and Family Support

Programming focuses on building the leadership and social/emotional development of youth while providing families with parent education specifically for teen parenting.


Spoke: Fort Saskatchewan Families First Society


A number of programs and opportunities for families with children aged 0-6. These programs focus on the parent/child relationship by providing different activities








and resources that support early learning and development.







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

Services will be provided by webinar and other online resources.

Edmonton - New Canadian, Immigrant and Refugee Supporting

Hub: Multicultural Health Brokers Cooperative Ltd.

780-423-1973

Spoke: ASSIST Community Services Centre

Multicultural Parenting Education

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 needed services and community resources to address their needs and issues.



Mentoring









Spoke: Gordon Russell's Crystal Kids Youth Centre

Crystal Kids Critical Mentoring, Life Skills and Literacy


Services will be provided by phone, email and video conferencing

Spoke: Islamic Family and Social Services

Cultural Youth Mentorship and Cultural Family Support

IFSSA's helpline is a free and confidential call and text service. Culturally and spiritually sensitive professionals are available to provide support, advice, comfort, information and resources in multiple languages. 780-900-2777, 10:00am to 10:00pm. 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.


Spoke: Multicultural Health Brokers Cooperative Ltd.


Universal and targeted child development programs for children between the ages of birth - 6 years of age, will be offered through various drop-in and registered groups. These programs will focus on parent and family support and touch on all of the developmental milestone domain areas.



Home Visitation 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.


Family Connections 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.


City Centre Edmonton

Hub: Norwood Child and Family Resource Centre

780-471-3737

Spoke: Crystal Kids

Crystal Kids Critical Mentoring, Life Skills and Literacy



Spoke: iHuman Youth Society

i♡FAMiLY Youth Services





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



Home Visitation 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.


Parent Respite Programming

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

Services being provided will follow public health orders and physical distancing measures.

Southeast Edmonton

Hub: Family Futures Resource Network

780-413-4521


Mentoring



Spoke: Family Futures Resource Network

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



Childhood Development



Spoke: Family Futures

Child and Youth Development

Programs are varied and aim to facilitate and promote a child/youth’s spiritual, emotional,

Services will be delivered by phone







Resource Network

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.

and other online resources.


Family Mentorship (Home Visitation)





Using Culturally specific staff and resources, Parent Education and family support programming will serve families with children and youth aged 0-18. Parent/caregiver education and family support is intended to help families gain knowledge about parenting and their child’s development.


Spoke: Red Road Healing Society

Red Road Family Support



Southwest Edmonton

Hub: Family Futures

780-413-4521







Resource Network

Spoke: ASSIST Community Services Centre

Multicultural Parenting Education

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 needed services and community resources to address their needs and issues.



Child and Youth Development




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



Childhood Development




Family Mentorship (Home Visitation)

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.

Spoke: The Family Centre of Northern Alberta (Assoc.)




Central Region




Red Deer Hub: McMan Youth, Family and Community Services Association

1-877-994-5465

Spoke: McMan Youth, Family and Community Services Association


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



Early Childhood Development Program

Early Childhood Development will serve families with children aged 0-6. 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

Services will be delivered by phone, email and video conferencing.







collaborative partners (Occupational Therapists, Speech Pathologists) attend to assist parents with questions and strategies for improved developmental outcomes.


Parent Education Programs

Parent Education will serve families with children and youth aged 0-18. 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.

Services will be delivered by phone, email and video conference.



Family Support will serve families with children and youth aged 0 – 18. 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.


Spoke: Family Services of Central Alberta

Basic English and Play

Support for New Canadian families who have English as a second language and are new to the community. Programming supports families to make new social connections, learn English and learn Canadian parenting practices and connect to community resources.

Services will be provided by phone, video conference, and other online options.

Spoke: Family Services of Central Alberta

Healthy Families – Home Visitation



Spoke: Red Deer Native

Four Directions Four Directions provides culturally rooted prevention and early intervention programs

Services will be provided by phone,







Friendship Society

and services that support and educate Indigenous and non-Indigenous children, families, and individuals.

email, video conferencing and other online resources.

Lloydminster Communities served: Dewberry, Kitscoty, Lloydminster, Mannville, Marwayne, Paradise Valley, Vermilion, Vermilion River County

Hub: Midwest Family Connections Inc.

306-825-5911

Spoke: Midwest Family Connections




Parent Education and Child Development

One-on-one support is available via phone, text, email and video to answer questions, problem solve parenting and/or child development concerns. This 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. Activities are posted on the Facebook account. Staff are available to video conference with families to deliver these as well. Discussion groups are available by video conference.

Services will be provided by phone, text, email, video conferencing and online through social media.


Family Coaching and Mentoring

Support is available via phone, text, email and video conference for families with complex needs. Develop collaborative plans with community support networks and provide access to sufficient resources to meet basic needs.

Services will be provide by phone, text, email and video conference.

Camrose

Hub: Camrose Family Resource

780-672-0141







Communities served: Alliance, Bashaw, Bawlf, Beaver County, Bittern Lake, Camrose, Camrose County, Daysland, Edberg, Ferintosh, Flagstaff County, Forestburg, Hay Lakes, Heisler, Holden, Killam, Lougheed, Rosalind, Ryley, Sedgewick, Tofield, Viking

Centre Association

Spoke: Camrose Association for Community Living




Spoke: Camrose Family Resource Centre

Developmental Screening

Parents are supported to use ASQ / ASQSE tools to do a developmental check up for children 0 - 6 to support their optimal development. Protective Factors Surveys will be used to support families with children over 6 years.

Services will be provided by phone, email, video conference, and other online resources.


Engagement and Advocacy

Support for families that require intensive support to manage complex challenges to develop collaborative plans with community support networks.

Services will be provided by phone, video conference, and other online resources.


Parent Education Program

Support and education to families with children 0 -18 experiencing difficulties or requiring assistance in supporting their child’s development.



Family Programming Virtual programming that connects families with social supports and parenting information for 0 - 13 to reduce the stress of isolation.


Spoke: Camrose Open Door

Youth Mentorship The youth mentorship program creates long -term connections between youth and caring adults in the community, which will result in increased natural support systems.

Services are delivered virtually.


Parenting Teens Supports parents by building up a “tool box” of resources that will be useful and practical as they navigate the world of parenting their teen.









Teen Parents This program supports teen parents by providing valuable learning opportunities to increase their parenting skills as well as connecting them with other teen parents and community resources.



Navigators Support for families and youth that require intensive support to manage complex challenges to develop collaborative plans with community support networks.


Sylvan Lake Communities served: Birchcliff, Eckville, Half Moon Bay, Jarvis Bay, Norglenwold, Sunbreaker Cove, Sylvan Lake

Hub: Town of Sylvan Lake Family Resource Network Enrichment Centre

403-887-1137

Spoke: Town of Sylvan Lake

Child and Youth Empowerment

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.

Services will be provided by phone, email, video conferencing and other online resources.



Facilitates social-emotional evidence based programs with a core focus on executive functioning, self-regulation, attachment, nurturing, connection, father involvement, developmental milestones, and Cultural diversity and Indigenous experience. FRN Program Facilitators will provide a program environment where parents and caregivers participate alongside their children in an








interactive, play based setting. While parents/caregivers are taking part in Parent Education sessions, FRN Program Facilitators will provide asset building programs for their children. They will also provide Triple P tip sheets, ASQ’s and ASQ-SE’s and information and referral supports to parents.





Family Enrichment Provides parent education and support for families with children 0 - 18 that are experiencing challenges with parenting strategies, stress and isolation and supports accessing resources and connections in the community.


Lacombe Communities served: Alix, Bentley, Blackfalds, Clive, Gull Lake, Lacombe, Lacombe County

Hub: McMan Youth, Family and Community Services Association

1-877-994-5465





Spoke: McMan Youth, Family and Community


Early Childhood Development will serve families with children aged 0-6. Child activities will be directly related to: Fine Motor Skills, Gross Motor Skills, Communication Skills,








Services Association

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.












Wetaskiwin

Hub: Boys & Girls Club of Wetaskiwin

780-352-4643







Communities served: Argentia Beach, Crystal Springs, Golden Days, Grandview, Ma-Me-O Beach, Millet, Norris Beach, Parkland Beach, Ponoka, Ponoka County, Poplar Bay, Rimbey, Silver Beach, Wetaskiwin, Wetaskiwin County

Spoke: Boys and Girls Club of Wetaskiwin

Indigenous Culture Services

Indigenous Culture Services supports children, youth, and families to become actively involved in a cultural life by increasing the number of Indigenous experiences offered during service delivery. 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.

Services will be provided by phone, email, video conferencing, and through other online resources.

Spoke: Boys and Girls Club of Wetaskiwin

Enrichment Home Visitation

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.

Services will be offered by phone, email, video conferencing and other online resources.













Early Childhood Development will serve families with children aged 0-6. 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.











Home Visitation 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

Services will be offered by phone, email and video conferencing.







family needs and provided at no cost to participants.

Spoke: Red Deer Native Friendship Society

Traditional Parenting

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

Services will be offered by phone, email, video conferencing and other online resources.

Drumheller Communities served: Acme, Carbon, Delia, Drumheller, Hanna, Kneehill County, Linden, Morrin, Munson, Oyen, Special Area No. 2, Starland County, Three Hills, Trochu


1-877-994-5465























Spoke: Accredited Supports to the Community




Spoke: Wheatland County Counselling WCC

Intensive Family Intervention Program

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.

Services are provided by phone and video conferencing.

Innisfail/Red Deer County Communities served: Bowden, Delburne, Elnora, Innisfail, Penhold, Red Deer County


1-877-994-5465
























Home Visitation 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.

Rocky Mountain House/Drayton Valley Communities served: Brazeau County, Breton, Burnstick Lake, Caroline, Clearwater County, Drayton Valley, Rocky Mountain House


1-877-994-5465















Family Support will serve families with children and youth aged 0 – 18. 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.




Spoke: Red Deer Native Friendship Society

Indigenous Services Traditional parenting provides support to families with children 0 - 6 years, through hands on culturally rooted education and supports for parents.

Services will be provided by phone, email, video conference and other online resources.

Wainwright Communities served: Amisk, Chauvin, Czar, Edgerton, Hardisty, Hughenden, Irma, Provost, Provost No. 52, Wainwright, Wainwright No. 61

Hub: Wainwright & District FCSS

780-842-2555

Spoke: Camrose Association for Community Living



Services will be delivered by phone and video conferencing.

Spoke: Midwest Family Connections Inc.

Family Coaching and Mentoring

Support is available via phone, text, email and video conference for families with complex needs to develop collaborative plans with community support networks to build or sustain stability. Also provides access to sufficient resources to meet basic needs.

Services will be provided by phone, text, email and video conference.







Spoke: Wainwright & District FCSS

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

Method of delivery: phone, online.


Infant / Child and Youth Development

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.



Parent Education Parent Education will support families with children and youth aged 0 – 18. Programming is intended to provide parents and caregivers with information and strategies regarding the growth and development of their children as well as connect them to community resources and networks that will reduce the stress of isolation.


Stettler Communities served: Big Valley, Botha, Castor, Consort, Coronation, Donalda, Gadsby, Halkirk, Paintearth County No. 18, Rochon Sands, Special Area No. 4, Stettler, Stettler County No. 6,


1-877-994-5465




Services will be provided by phone, email and video conference.

Spoke: McMan Youth, Family and Community


Early Childhood Development will serve families with children aged 0-6. Child activities will be directly related to: Fine Motor Skills, Gross Motor Skills, Communication Skills,








Veteran, White Sands


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.


Parent Education Program










Spoke: Stettler and District FCSS

Family Counselling Individual and family counselling for adults, couples and youth experiencing depression, anxiety, trauma, PTSD or challenges with








conflict resolution and / or emotional regulation.

Mountain View County Communities served: Carstairs, Cremona, Didsbury, Mountain View County, Olds, Sundre

Hub: Town of Didsbury

403-335-8719


Triple P Intensive In-Home Support

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

Services provided remotely by phone/video conference.





Spoke: Town of Didsbury

Youth Services The Youth Services program supports families with youth aged 14 – 18. The program provides information regarding a variety of parenting strategies, dealing with parent/teen conflict, and helps to reduce the stress of isolation through connections to community supports. Supports will be provided directly to youth where it is not possible to support the entire family unit.

Services will be delivered by phone, email, video conference, and other online resources.


Middle Years The Middle Years program supports families with children aged 7 – 13. Programming includes information regarding a variety of parenting strategies and information on child development. Programming will also be available to support children in this age group

Services will be delivered by phone, email, video conferencing and other online resources.







directly, which compliments supports offered to parents/caregivers.


Early Years The Early Years program supports families with children aged 0 – 6. Programming includes developmental screening, information regarding a variety of parenting strategies, and supports creating community connections to reduce isolation.

Services will be delivered by phone, email, video conference and other online resources.

Calgary Region

Location Hub or Spoke/ Name of Agency



Northeast Calgary

Hub: Families Matter Society of Calgary

403-205-5178

Spoke: Big Brothers Big Sisters Society of Calgary

Mentoring Program

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.

Services delivered by phone, video conference and email.

Spoke: Carya Society of Calgary

Family Functioning Therapy

Family based intensive treatment that with families with children between the ages of 0-18 primarily in their home. Therapists work with families developing family strengths and teaching skills.

Services provided by phone and video conference.

Spoke: Families Matter Society of Calgary

Successful Young Parents Program

Support for vulnerable parents and expectant parents under 23 years of age with risk factors present.










Parent education programs and anxiety and stress management workshops for children and youth.



Family Resilience Home Visitation Program



Spoke: Hull Services

Resilient Families

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.


Spoke: Immigrant Services Calgary Society

Early Learning Across Cultures

Variety of multicultural programs to build parenting capacity.


Spoke: The Catholic Family Service of Calgary

Rapid Access Counselling

The Rapid Access Counselling program ensures parents/families have access to a timely, change-focused conversation with a supportive counsellor. This 75-minute goal based and solution focused counselling service can be accessed by children, parents/caregivers and families as often as they need.

Services will be provided by phone and webinar.







City Centre Calgary

Hub: Calgary Young Women's Christian Association

403-262-0497

Spoke: Alexandra Community Health Centre

Pre/Postnatal Young Mothers Program (SPOKE)

The Alex Pre/Postnatal Program for at-risk youth up to age 24 seeks to improve maternal and infant health, development, and well-being; strengthen parenting capacity; and prevent infants from being taken into care


SPOKE: CUPs Calgary Society

Infant/Parent Mental Health Support

Infant/Parent Mental Health Support is designed to improve the quality of parent-child interaction, parental reflective functioning, levels of secure attachment between dyads – which in turn reduce the amount of mental health challenges experienced by children, safety risks in the home, externalizing and internalizing behavioural symptoms, and Children’s Services involvement.



Mentoring Program



Spoke: Calgary Young Women's Christian Association

Families Forward


















Father’s Moving Forward

Fathers Moving Forward (FMF) supports young dads and father figures (14+) to be involved, hands-on parents; co-parent effectively with the mother, whether they are together or not; and be a positive role model in the lives of their children. Services include individual counselling, co-parenting support groups (moms and dads), and a dads only parenting group, and “Money Management” for dads.


North Calgary Hub: Closer to Home Community Service Society

403-543-0555


Mentoring Program



Spoke: Boys and Girls Clubs of Calgary

Youth Counseling Program

Youth Therapist serve youth ages 14+ years who require intensive therapeutic counseling to address social, emotional and behavioural issues that 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.

Spoke: Closer to Home Community Service Society



Services delivered by phone, video conference, email and webinar.


Caregiver Capacity Building Program

The primary goal of the Caregiver Capacity Building Services Spoke is to provide support and information in ways that help caregivers become more capable and competent. These spoke programs aim to support and strengthen existing parenting abilities and promote the development of new competencies so that parents have the knowledge and skills needed to carry out child-rearing responsibilities and provide their children with experiences and opportunities that promote child learning and development.



Closer to Home In-Home Family Support Program

The In-Home Family Support Program will

provide ‘targeted’ and ‘intensive’ in-home

Services to families of children 7-17 years old

and achieve outcomes in Child Development,

Caregiver Capacity and Social Connections. The

In-Home Family Support program provides a

flexible, individualized in-home support

response to prevent children and youths from








leaving their home and community when risk

factors that compromise the safety and well-

being of the youth are present. This program

aims to preserve the family unit, provide

immediate help and address risk factors

associated with increased risk of child

maltreatment.


Child and Youth Social Skills Development Program

The Child and Youth Social Emotional Skill

Development Spoke is designed to offer services

that facilitate and promote a child/youth’s

spiritual, emotional, physical, cognitive, social

and emotional development to assist them in

reaching their developmental potential. This

spoke will provide youth with opportunities to

engage in positive social activities and will

employ specific components to strengthen the

participants’ social emotional well-being, and

community connections.






West Calgary Hub: The Children's Cottage Society

403-283-4200








Mentoring Program





Parent education programs and Anxiety and stress management workshops for children and youth.



Friendship Group: Social and Emotional Skills Training for Children

The Friendship Group is a targeted service

supporting the development and well-being of

children 5-11 years of age. This intervention

promotes friendships, decreases peer

rejection, improves peer communication skills

and cooperative behavioural, and decreases

impulsive and aggressive behaviours.

Friendship Group for children is a multi-

session, small group experience where children

have opportunity to practice skills in the

context of supported, collaborative activities

that mirror typical social challenges.



Resilient Families



Spoke: The Children's Cottage Society of


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.








Calgary, An Alberta Society

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.





Southwest Calgary

Hub: Aspen Family and Community Network

403-219-3477


Mentoring Program



Spoke: Calgary Immigrant Women’s Association

Home Visitation One on one support to clients, initial needs assessment and critical services referrals. Receiving referrals from Children’s Services, community partners and self-referrals.

Services will be delivered by phone and email.

Spoke: Aspen Family and Community Network

Early Childhood Program

Programs for parents and their children 0 - 6 years including Story Times, Mother Goose, Exploring Feelings and Emotions, Sensory Play, Triple P Positive Parenting Program and Circle of Security.



In Home Caregiver One-on-One

Programs for parents and their children 7 18 years including Triple P, Circle of Security (7 - 14), Exploring Feelings and Emotions,








Nurturing Parent program. Programs build parent confidence and resiliency.





Southeast Calgary


403-288-1446


Mentoring Program













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










Resilient Families







East Calgary – Indigenous Supporting

Hub: Miskanawah Community Services Association

403-975-0196

Spoke: Awo Taan Healing Lodge Society

Grand Mother Turtle

Programs are based upon the Seven Sacred Teachings and culturally informed child development programming (i.e., Elders and cultural supports, ceremonies, and wellness and healing programming, cultural celebrations, Indigenous cultural awareness and competency training, parent-child relationship teachings, triple p parenting) for Indigenous children 0-6 years and their parents, grandparents, and other significant caregivers.



Culturally Informed Youth Well-Being Program

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.

Spoke: Miskanawah Community Services Association

Indigenous Cultural Supports and Services

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.



Indigenous Early Intervention Supports

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.



Indigenous Home Visitation Services

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.












West Calgary – Indigenous Supporting


403-975-0196





Metis Calgary Family Services

TBD



















Calgary – New Canadian, Immigrant, and Refugee Supporting

Hub: Calgary Immigrant Women's Association

403-444-1759

Spoke: Calgary Immigrant Women's Association

Cross Cultural Parenting Program

Ongoing one on one support for immigrant parents and grandparents as well as group parenting sessions.

Services provided by phone, email and video conferencing.








Immigrant Boys and Girls

Ongoing one on one support to immigrant youth.

Accepting referrals via phone and email and services will be provided by phone, email, social media and video conference.



Services provided by phone and email.


HIPPY - Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters

One on one parenting support offered by phone.

Services provided by phone.





Airdrie Communities served: Airdrie, Beiseker, Crossfield, Irricana, Rocky

Hub: North Rockyview Community Links Society

403-945-3900


Mentoring Program

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








View County NE

improve their social-emotional skills and resiliency.




Services provided by phone, email, video conference and webinar.


Child and Youth Social Skills

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.

Services provided by phone, video conference, and webinar.

Spoke: North Rockyview Community Links Society

Caregiver Capacity & Education

Variety of programs to build parenting capacity.


Strathmore Communities served: Chestermere, Hussar, Rocky View County SE, Rockyford, Standard, Strathmore

Hub: Aspen Family and Community Network Society

(403) 219-3477

Spoke: Aspen Family and Community Network Society

In-Home Caregiver One-to-One Supports

Programs for parents and their children 7 - 18 years including Triple P, Circle of Security (7 - 14), Exploring Feelings and Emotions, Nurturing Parent program. Programs build parent confidence and resiliency.








Wheatland County


Caregiver Capacity and Parent Education Program

Triple P, Parent Education workshops, Exploring Feelings, Early Childhood Development including Mother Goose and Developmental Screening



Youth Programming Triple P programming as well as various programs that build confidence and self esteem (Discovering Me for girls 7 – 13 and girls 14+)


Spoke: Accredited Supports to the Community (A.S.C.) Association

Home Visitation Healthy Families

Trained home visitors provide families 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 and provided at no cost to participants.


Spoke: City of Chestermere

Parent and Caregiver Support Services

Deliver information and skill building resources. Universal and curriculum based programming with children 0 - 6 years. Some resources and programming for parents with children 7 - 13 years.


Okotoks Hub: McMan Youth, Family and Community Services Association

(403) 209-1429

Spoke: Children's Cottage Society of Calgary, An


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








Alberta Society

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.





Cochrane Communities served: Cochrane, Ghost Lake, West Rocky View County

Hub: Town of Cochrane

403-851-2250

Spoke: Children's Cottage Society of Calgary, An Alberta Society




Spoke: Town of Cochrane

Parent Capacity Building Child Development Programs

Parent capacity building and education programs such as Triple P (0 - 18). Individual parenting supports also provided. Early childhood development programs such as playtime and ASQ Developmental Screenings are available. Resources and activities are also available.


Spoke: Boys and Girls Club of Cochrane and Area

Youth Prevention Programming

Outreach programming for youth, including Junior Chef programs and Healthy Relationship programming. Resources and supports for LGBTQ2S+ also provided.








Canmore Communities served: Banff, Bighorn No. 8, Canmore Improvement District No. 9, Banff, Kananaskis, Waiparous

Hub: Town of Canmore

403-678-2535





Spoke: Town of Canmore

Caregiver Capacity Building and Education

Triple P, Gearing up for Kindergarten, Gender Diversity workshops, Bully Prevention, Potty Training and Developmental Screening are available through online and video conferencing.

Services provided online and by videoconferencing

Spoke: Town of Banff

Caregiver Capacity Building Support: Education, Training, Skill Building

Parent education programs that include Emotion Coaching, Gearing Up for Kindergarten, Developmental screenings, and provision of ECD kits to families (0 – 6 years).

Services delivered via phone, email and zoom.

High River Communities served: Arrowwood, Black Diamond, Carmangay, Champion, Claresholm, Foothills No. 31, High River, Lomond, Longview, Milo, Nanton,

Hub: Town of High River

403-652-8633

Spoke: Rainbow Literacy and Learning Society


Time For Rhymes for families with children 0 - 6 yrs. Learn behavior management tools through positive interaction methods, and interacting with children through word games, songs and rhymes. Books for Babies for families with children 0 - 6 years. Each week of the program focuses on a different aspect of sharing books with children and highlights a book along with strategies on how to use it with their child. Unity of Belonging - for children 7 - 17 years. This program addresses issues in the community such as roots and causes of racism.

Services provided by phone and online resources.







Turner Valley, Vulcan, Vulcan County

Spoke: Town of High River

Foothills Family Counselling

Counselling Services for children, youth and families.


Spoke: Wild Rose Community Connections

First Years for Families Home Visitation


Services will be provided by video conference, webinar, and other online resources.

Spoke: Claresholm and District Family and Community Supports Services

Claresholm Outreach Information and resources provided to families with children 0 - 18 years. Youth group have their own Facebook page and regularly communicate with coordinator. Regular phone contact with families as needed.

Services provided by phone and online through social media.


Family Centre Providing Parenting Support for families with children 0-12 (Activities, Information and Resources), Parent Education (Triple P- Positive Parenting Program) for families with children 0-18 and Developmental Screening (Ages and Stages Questionnaires). Also providing Let’s Chat Family Line (staff are available to speak with families and offer information and support)

Services provided by phone, online, email, and can deliver materials, resources.

Calgary Region







Northeast Calgary


403-205-5178


Mentoring Program


Services delivered by phone, video conference and email.
























Resilient Families



Spoke: Immigrant Services Calgary Society

Early Learning Across Cultures

Variety of multicultural programs to build parenting capacity.






City Centre Calgary

Hub: Calgary Young Women's Christian Association

403-262-0497

Spoke: Alexandra Community Health Centre

Pre/Postnatal Young Mothers Program (SPOKE)

The Alex Pre/Postnatal Program for at-risk youth up to age 24 seeks to improve maternal and infant health, development, and well-being; strengthen parenting capacity; and prevent infants from being taken into care


SPOKE: CUPs Calgary Society

Infant/Parent Mental Health Support

Infant/Parent Mental Health Support is designed to improve the quality of parent-child interaction, parental reflective functioning, levels of secure attachment between dyads – which in turn reduce the amount of mental health challenges experienced by children,








safety risks in the home, externalizing and internalizing behavioural symptoms, and Children’s Services involvement.


Mentoring Program



Spoke: Calgary Young Women's Christian Association

Families Forward












Father’s Moving Forward

Fathers Moving Forward (FMF) supports young dads and father figures (14+) to be involved, hands-on parents; co-parent effectively with the mother, whether they are together or not; and be a positive role model in the lives of








their children. Services include individual counselling, co-parenting support groups (moms and dads), and a dads only parenting group, and “Money Management” for dads.

North Calgary Hub: Closer to Home Community Service Society

403-543-0555


Mentoring Program



Spoke: Boys and Girls Clubs of Calgary

Youth Counseling Program

Youth Therapist serve youth ages 14+ years who require intensive therapeutic counseling to address social, emotional and behavioural issues that 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.






Spoke: Closer to Home

Caregiver Capacity Building Program

The primary goal of the Caregiver Capacity Building Services Spoke is to provide support

Services delivered by phone, video







Community Service Society

and information in ways that help caregivers become more capable and competent. These spoke programs aim to support and strengthen existing parenting abilities and promote the development of new competencies so that parents have the knowledge and skills needed to carry out child-rearing responsibilities and provide their children with experiences and opportunities that promote child learning and development.

conference, email and webinar.


Closer to Home In-Home Family Support Program

The In-Home Family Support Program will

provide ‘targeted’ and ‘intensive’ in-home

Services to families of children 7-17 years old

and achieve outcomes in Child Development,

Caregiver Capacity and Social Connections. The

In-Home Family Support program provides a

flexible, individualized in-home support

response to prevent children and youths from

leaving their home and community when risk

factors that compromise the safety and well-

being of the youth are present. This program

aims to preserve the family unit, provide

immediate help and address risk factors

associated with increased risk of child

maltreatment.



Child and Youth Social Skills Development Program

The Child and Youth Social Emotional Skill

Development Spoke is designed to offer services

that facilitate and promote a child/youth’s

spiritual, emotional, physical, cognitive, social

and emotional development to assist them in

reaching their developmental potential. This








spoke will provide youth with opportunities to

engage in positive social activities and will

employ specific components to strengthen the

participants’ social emotional well-being, and

community connections.





West Calgary Hub: The Children's Cottage Society

403-283-4200


Mentoring Program





Parent education programs and Anxiety and stress management workshops for children and youth.



Friendship Group: Social and Emotional Skills Training for Children

The Friendship Group is a targeted service

supporting the development and well-being of

children 5-11 years of age. This intervention

promotes friendships, decreases peer

rejection, improves peer communication skills

and cooperative behavioural, and decreases








impulsive and aggressive behaviours.

Friendship Group for children is a multi-

session, small group experience where children

have opportunity to practice skills in the

context of supported, collaborative activities

that mirror typical social challenges.


Resilient Families



Spoke: The Children's Cottage Society of Calgary, An Alberta Society








Southwest Calgary

Hub: Aspen Family and Community Network

403-219-3477








Mentoring Program



Spoke: Calgary Immigrant Women’s Association

Home Visitation One on one support to clients, initial needs assessment and critical services referrals. Receiving referrals from Children’s Services, community partners and self-referrals.

Services will be delivered by phone and email.


Early Childhood Program

Programs for parents and their children 0 - 6 years including Story Times, Mother Goose, Exploring Feelings and Emotions, Sensory Play, Triple P Positive Parenting Program and Circle of Security.



In Home Caregiver One-on-One

Programs for parents and their children 7 18 years including Triple P, Circle of Security (7 - 14), Exploring Feelings and Emotions, Nurturing Parent program. Programs build parent confidence and resiliency.






Southeast Calgary


403-288-1446


Mentoring Program






















Resilient Families







East Calgary – Indigenous Supporting

Hub: Miskanawah Community

403-975-0196









Grand Mother Turtle

Programs are based upon the Seven Sacred Teachings and culturally informed child development programming (i.e., Elders and cultural supports, ceremonies, and wellness and healing programming, cultural celebrations, Indigenous cultural awareness and competency training, parent-child relationship teachings, triple p parenting) for Indigenous children 0-6 years and their parents, grandparents, and other significant caregivers.



Culturally Informed Youth Well-Being Program

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.
























West Calgary – Indigenous Supporting


403-975-0196











Metis Calgary Family Services

TBD









Spoke: The Catholic


The Rapid Access Counselling program ensures parents/families have access to a timely, change-focused conversation with a supportive








Family Service of Calgary

counsellor. This 75-minute goal based and solution focused counselling service can be accessed by children, parents/caregivers and families as often as they need.

Calgary – New Canadian, Immigrant, and Refugee Supporting

Hub: Calgary Immigrant Women's Association

403-444-1759


Cross Cultural Parenting Program

Ongoing one on one support for immigrant parents and grandparents as well as group parenting sessions.

Services provided by phone, email and video conferencing.


Immigrant Boys and Girls

Ongoing one on one support to immigrant youth.

Accepting referrals via phone and email and services will be provided by phone, email, social media and video conference.



Services provided by phone and email.


HIPPY - Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters

One on one parenting support offered by phone.

Services provided by phone.

Spoke: The Catholic


The Rapid Access Counselling program ensures parents/families have access to a timely, change-focused conversation with a supportive








Family Service of Calgary

counsellor. This 75-minute goal based and solution focused counselling service can be accessed by children, parents/caregivers and families as often as they need.

Airdrie Communities served: Airdrie, Beiseker, Crossfield, Irricana, Rocky View County NE

Hub: North Rockyview Community Links Society

403-945-3900


Mentoring Program








Child and Youth Social Skills

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.

Services provided by phone, video conference, and webinar.







Spoke: North Rockyview Community Links Society

Caregiver Capacity & Education

Variety of programs to build parenting capacity.


Strathmore Communities served: Chestermere, Hussar, Rocky View County SE, Rockyford, Standard, Strathmore Wheatland County

Hub: Aspen Family and Community Network Society

(403) 219-3477


In-Home Caregiver One-to-One Supports

Programs for parents and their children 7 - 18 years including Triple P, Circle of Security (7 - 14), Exploring Feelings and Emotions, Nurturing Parent program. Programs build parent confidence and resiliency.




Triple P, Parent Education workshops, Exploring Feelings, Early Childhood Development including Mother Goose and Developmental Screening



Youth Programming Triple P programming as well as various programs that build confidence and self esteem (Discovering Me for girls 7 – 13 and girls 14+)


Spoke: Accredited Supports to the Community (A.S.C.) Association

Home Visitation Healthy Families









Spoke: City of Chestermere

Parent and Caregiver Support Services

Deliver information and skill building resources. Universal and curriculum based programming with children 0 - 6 years. Some resources and programming for parents with children 7 - 13 years.


Okotoks Hub: McMan Youth, Family and Community Services Association

(403) 209-1429










Children’s Life Skills Program – Kickstart

For children 7 – 13 years who may be experiencing challenges with peer relations and emotional regulation challenges. Book club also being provided. 1 to 1 supports provided as needed.

Services provided by phone and zoom.








Youth (13 – 18) Life Skills Program – Skills for Life

The Skills for Life program is an educationally based life skill group for youth 13-18 years of age focusing on skill development. Skills for anger management and career track. 1 to 1 supports provided as needed.

Services provided by phone and zoom.

Cochrane Communities served: Cochrane, Ghost Lake, West Rocky View County

Hub: Town of Cochrane

403-851-2250





Spoke: Town of Cochrane

Parent Capacity Building Child Development Programs

Parent capacity building and education programs such as Triple P (0 - 18). Individual parenting supports also provided. Early childhood development programs such as playtime and ASQ Developmental Screenings are available. Resources and activities are also available.


Spoke: Boys and Girls Club of Cochrane and Area

Youth Prevention Programming

Outreach programming for youth, including Junior Chef programs and Healthy Relationship programming. Resources and supports for LGBTQ2S+ also provided.


Canmore Communities served: Banff, Bighorn No. 8, Canmore Improvement District No. 9,

Hub: Town of Canmore

403-678-2535



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








Banff, Kananaskis, Waiparous

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.

Spoke: Town of Canmore

Caregiver Capacity Building and Education

Triple P, Gearing up for Kindergarten, Gender Diversity workshops, Bully Prevention, Potty Training and Developmental Screening are available through online and video conferencing.

Services provided online and by videoconferencing

Spoke: Town of Banff

Caregiver Capacity Building Support: Education, Training, Skill Building

Parent education programs that include Emotion Coaching, Gearing Up for Kindergarten, Developmental screenings, and provision of ECD kits to families (0 – 6 years).

Services delivered via phone, email and zoom.

High River Communities served: Arrowwood, Black Diamond, Carmangay, Champion, Claresholm, Foothills No. 31, High River, Lomond, Longview, Milo, Nanton, Turner Valley, Vulcan, Vulcan County

Hub: Town of High River

403-652-8633

Spoke: Rainbow Literacy and Learning Society


Time For Rhymes for families with children 0 - 6 yrs. Learn behavior management tools through positive interaction methods, and interacting with children through word games, songs and rhymes. Books for Babies for families with children 0 - 6 years. Each week of the program focuses on a different aspect of sharing books with children and highlights a book along with strategies on how to use it with their child. Unity of Belonging - for children 7 - 17 years. This program addresses issues in the community such as roots and causes of racism.



Foothills Family Counselling

Counselling Services for children, youth and families.


Spoke: Wild Rose Community Connections

First Years for Families Home Visitation

Trained home visitors provide families 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

Services will be provided by video conference, webinar, and other online resources.







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.

Spoke: Claresholm and District Family and Community Supports Services

Claresholm Outreach Information and resources provided to families with children 0 - 18 years. Youth group have their own Facebook page and regularly communicate with coordinator. Regular phone contact with families as needed.

Services provided by phone and online through social media.


Family Centre Providing Parenting Support for families with children 0-12 (Activities, Information and Resources), Parent Education (Triple P- Positive Parenting Program) for families with children 0-18 and Developmental Screening (Ages and Stages Questionnaires). Also providing Let’s Chat Family Line (staff are available to speak with families and offer information and support)

Services provided by phone, online, email, and can deliver materials, resources.

Siksika Nation

Hub: Siksika Family Services Corporation

403-734-4360

Spoke: Siksika Family Services Corporation

Community Kitchens, Parent Education, Culture and Language

Provision of Blackfoot Language camps and virtual story times for families with children 0 – 6 years

Services provided online







Stoney Health Services Serving Morley and area including Eden Valley Reserve

Hub: Stoney Family Resource Network

403-881-2762

Spoke: Stoney Family Resource Network

Trauma and Attachments, Youth Programs

Providing supports and resources for youth 12 – 18 yrs.

Services provided by phone and online

Spoke: Stoney Family Resource Network

Community Kitchens, Parent Education, Culture and Language

Formal and informal parental education that focuses on the traditional teachings of the Stoney Nakoda people through the use of Positive Parenting Program (Triple P), Root of Empathy to empower caregivers/parents in their roles as strong allies and to promote family wellness

Services provided by phone and online

Edmonton

Hub : IGLF







Calgary Serving Calgary and Southern Alberta (including Lacombe to Southern border)

Spoke : Société de la Petite Enfance et de la Famille du sud de l’Alberta

403-249-0525 SPEFSA Hub Outreach

Programs provided in French for families with children 0 – 18 yrs. Parenting programs, parent discussion groups for building resiliency for children and positive parenting programs. Some ‘Comptes et Comptines’ programs (our Mother Goose programs) also offered. Follow-up for ASQ Developmental Screening. Triple P groups and Triple P seminars provided as well as How to Talk so Kids will Listen.

Services provided online, through ZOOM, video clips

South Region




Lethbridge Hub: Family Centre Society of Southern Alberta

403-320-4232

Spoke: Family Centre Society of Southern Alberta

Parent Education Offers a variety of parenting supports that meet caregivers where they are. Formal and informal approaches used, including Triple P. Parent/child play engagement.

Services provided online through social media.

Spoke: Lethbridge Family Services

Families Thriving Together Program

This program is based on a three component, sequential process that allows each family member to effectively address their attachment and trauma issues. This family systems approach is designed to use an Emotion Focused Family Therapy model (EFFT). EFFT is a short term; evidence based








counselling therapy grounded in experiential, family therapy. The goal is to integrate areas of emotions, affective neuroscience, attachment and trauma.

Spoke: Lethbridge School District 51

Making Connections

Making Connections intent is to assist families to develop independence while having a problem-solving ally to assist them, as needed, throughout the process. The intent is to assist in strengthening a family’s ability to be resistant to crisis, to build autonomy, and to develop an awareness of resources, according to the individual family’s need. Making Connections uses a Pyramid of Intervention model. In the model, services are provided on a continuum, which includes Universal Programming (capacity building), Targeted Interventions, and Intensive Supports, and in most cases, referral.


Spoke: South Region Parents as Teachers Society

South Region Parents as Teachers

South Region Parents as Teachers (SRPAT) delivers personalized, custom support to parents, caregivers and families with children prenatal to age six utilizing the evidence-based Parents as Teachers (PAT) early childhood (including prenatal) home visitation model. Services are across the prevention/early intervention continuum including universal, targeted and intensive. The bulk of programming is targeted and intensive delivered through personalized home visits, which will be offered virtually.


Medicine Hat Communities served: Acadia No. 34, Bow Island, Cereal, Cypress County,

Hub: Bridges Family Programs Association of Southeastern Alberta

403-526-7473

Spoke: Bridges Family

Best Babies and Building Blocks

Home visitation activities for 0 - 6 years old via video/phone. Curb side drop off for food,

Services will be provided by phone







Empress, Medicine Hat, Redcliff, Special Area No. 3, Youngstown

Programs Association Southeastern Alberta

diapers, application forms, subsidies, activities, reading material.

and online. Curbside pick up available for supplies.

Spoke: Bridges Family Programs Association Southeastern Alberta

Bridges

Home visitation activities for families with children 0 to 18 via video/phone. Curb side drop off for activities and kits for families, reading material. Kids’ crafts and activities videotaped for social media. Online tutorials.

Services will be provided by phone, video and online through social media.

Spoke: Miywasin Friendship Centre

Youth Development Program

Cultural craft kits for youth with curbside drop off and connection to programming via Zoom. Coordinators use electronic means to connect with youth.

Services will be provided online through Zoom. Curbside pick up available for supplies.

Spoke: Miywasin Friendship Centre

Caregiver/Parent Education

Coordinators are connecting with families via telephone to determine ability to connect online for Aboriginal Parenting and Mending Broke Hearts groups. Zoom conferencing for crafts with parents. Triple P available through online resources.

Services will be provided by phone, online, and videoconferencing.

Spoke: Medicine Hat Family YMCA

Early Intervention Program for Young Mothers

Connection with participants through online groups to provide support and informal outreach.

Services provided online.

South Central Communities served: Barons, Cardston, Cardston County, Coaldale, Coalhurst, Coutts, Foremost, Forty Mile County No.

Hub: Barons Eureka Warner Family and Community Support Services

403-795-3328

Spoke: Barons Eureka Warner FCSS

Indigenous Family Support & Outreach Services

Indigenous Family Support and Outreach staff assist families with needs, including navigating the system of natural and community supports, as well as collaborative and cooperative referral pathways with the Child Intervention system. Staff build








8, Glenwood, Hill Spring, Lethbridge County, Magrath, Milk River, Nobleford, Picture Butte, Raymond, Stirling, Taber, MD, Taber, Town, Vauxhall, Warner, Warner County No. 5

parental/caregiver resiliency by focusing on the family unit and fostering familial wellness. Indigenous Family Support and Outreach staff enhance the family’s capacity to support the growth and development of all members of the family by creating connections to natural supports.


Low German Mennonite (LGM)/Non-Indigenous Family Support & Outreach Services

LGM Family Support and Outreach staff assist families in their needs, including navigating the system of natural and community supports as well as collaborative and cooperative referral pathways with the Child Intervention system. LGM Family Support and Outreach staff build parental/caregiver resiliency by focusing on the family unit and fostering familial wellness. LGM Family Support and Outreach staff enhance the family’s capacity to support the growth and development of all members of the family.



Parenting Programs

Offers a variety of supports, programs and services to children, youth and parents. Programs support families to manage issues including anxiety, stress, grief & loss, including Triple P (one-on-one; including virtual learnings).




South Region Parents as Teachers (SRPAT) delivers personalized, custom support to parents, caregivers and families with children prenatal to age six utilizing the evidence-based Parents as Teachers (PAT) early childhood (including prenatal) home visitation model. Services are across the prevention/early intervention continuum including universal, targeted and intensive. The bulk of programming is targeted and intensive delivered through personalized home visits, which can be completed virtually.


Brooks

Hub: The SPEC

Association for

403-362-5056







Communities served: Bassano, Brooks, Duchess, Newell County, Rosemary

Children and

Families

Spoke: Bridges Family Programs Association

Best Babies and

Building Blocks

Home visitation activities for 0 - 6 years old via

video/phone. Curb side drop off for food,

diapers, application forms, subsidies, activities,

reading material.

Services will be provided by phone and video. Curbside pickup available for supplies.

Spoke: The

SPEC

Association for

Children and

Families

Caregiver/Parent

Education

Providing parenting support and information to

families through online groups.


Spoke: The

SPEC

Association for

Children and

Families

Caregiver/Parent

Education

Providing parenting support and information to

families through online groups.


Spoke: The SPEC Association for Children and Families

Community Services Provides information pages with available

community services, conducts assessments and

provides information and referrals.


Communities served: South – Indigenous Supporting

Hub: Opokaa'sin Early Intervention Society

403-380-2569

Spoke: Lethbridge Family Services

Families Thriving Together Program – Indigenous Program

This program is based on a three component, sequential process that allows each family member to effectively address their attachment and trauma issues. This family systems approach is designed to use an Emotion Focused Family Therapy model (EFFT).








EFFT is a short term, evidence based counselling therapy grounded in experiential, family therapy. The goal is to integrate areas of emotions, affective neuroscience, attachment and trauma.

Spoke: Opokaa'sin Early Intervention Society

Caregiver Education and Family Support Program

This is a traditional parenting skills one-on-one intervention to support families in their role as a parent, ensuring they play a key role in their children's development, to help families gain the skills necessarily to provide a healthy lifestyle for their children and their family through cultural teachings, education, and the development of a support network.



Aapatsi'kaktosi North Star Social Connections and Support Program

Programming includes one-on-one intervention with parents/caregivers who face unique challenges. Provide traditional parenting skills one-on-one intervention to support families in their role as a parent, ensuring they play a key role in their children's development, to help families gain the skills necessarily to provide a healthy lifestyle for their children and their family through cultural teachings, education, and the development of a support network.



Youth, Group Support Program

The Apai’pookaiksi (Weasel Children) will provide positive peer mentorship to Indigenous children, connecting them to positive resources in the community and access to cultural and traditional programming. It will foster positive identity, and belonging and connectedness. One-on-one programming and virtual connections are occurring for youth and families currently. Blackfoot Language and Culture continues to be offered virtually by the Instructor to youth and families.




South Region Parents as Teachers (SRPAT) delivers personalized, custom support to parents, caregivers and families with children prenatal to age six utilizing the evidence-based








Parents as Teachers (PAT) early childhood (including prenatal) home visitation model. Services are across the prevention/early intervention continuum including universal, targeted and intensive. The bulk of programming is targeted and intensive delivered through personalized home visits, which can be provided virtually.

West Corridor Communities served: Barnwell, Cowley, Crowsnest Pass, Fort Macleod, Granum, Improvement District No. 4, Waterton, Pincher Creek, Pincher Creek No. 9, Ranchland No. 66, Stavely, Willow Creek No. 26

Hub: Fort Macleod Kids First Family Centre

587-787-1071

Spoke: Fort Macleod Kids First Family Centre

Indigenous Outreach

The Indigenous Outreach spoke is focused on the well-being of Indigenous children, youth and families by connecting them to community programs and services. This spoke will encompass facilitated programs (online), community and capacity building for working in partnership with local services and agencies to ensure families have access to cultural networks of support that will meet their unique needs.


Spoke: Fort Macleod Kids First Family Centre

Caregiver Education

This spoke is focused on promoting the parent-child relationship by encouraging positive parenting practices. Programs offered online currently include Triple P, Kids Have Stress Too, and Circle of Security.


Spoke: Pincher Creek Family Resource Centre

Parent Education

This spoke is focused on delivering parent education programs, meeting the unique needs of the people and communities served. Programs may include Triple P; Outreach/Parent Education Supports; and Trauma Informed Parenting Programs. Further to this, the agency is connecting families to other community supports that are available. Parent/play resources are being made available for families as well - pickup or drop off available in community.

Resources are available for pickup or drop off.








South Region Parents as Teachers - West Corridor FRN

South Region Parents as Teachers (SRPAT) delivers personalized, custom support to parents, caregivers and families with children prenatal to age six utilizing the evidence-based Parents as Teachers (PAT) early childhood (including prenatal) home visitation model. Services are across the prevention/early intervention continuum including universal, targeted and intensive. The bulk of programming is targeted and intensive delivered through personalized home visits, which can be provided virtually.


Spoke: Pincher Creek Family Resource Centre

Indigenous Outreach

Indigenous Outreach will provide direct service delivery to families, focusing on the parent-child relationship. Parent/play resources are being made available for families as well - pickup or drop off available in community.

Resources are available for pickup or drop off.

Métis Settlements





Buffalo Lake Métis Settlement

Hub: Buffalo Lake Métis Settlement

(780) 689-2170

Spoke: Buffalo Lake Métis Settlement

Home Visitation The home visitation program will be a key to connecting infants, children, youth and families with services, programs and supports and will work in collaboration with the Family Resource Network Team to ensure the families needs will be addressed and met.

Services will be provided by phone, email, and other online resources.


Outreach Services Community/family development & cultural programming










Parent & Child Development & Youth Leadership Programs

The majority of our community are of Metis descent and practice, maintain, promote and respect Metis ways of life (knowing, being and doing), traditions, language, and spirituality.



Parent Education Metis Traditional Parenting & Triple P Services will be provided by phone, email, and other online resources.

East Prairie Métis Settlement

Hub: East Prairie Métis Settlement

(780) 523-5056

Spoke: East Prairie Métis Settlement












Elizabeth Métis Settlement

Hub: Elizabeth Métis Settlement

(780) 594-5026

Spoke: Elizabeth Métis Settlement













Spoke: ELizabeth Métis Settlement






Fishing Lake Métis Settlement

Hub: Fishing Lake Métis Settlement

(780) 943-2202

Spoke: Fishing Lake Métis Settlement












Gift Lake Métis Settlement

Hub: Gift Lake Métis Settlement

(780) 767-3794

Spoke: Gift Lake Métis Settlement

Home Visitation The home visitation program will be a key to connecting infants, children, youth and families with services, programs and supports and will work in collaboration with the Family Resource









Network Team to ensure the families needs will be addressed and met.










Kikino Métis Settlement

Hub: Kikino Métis Settlement

(780) 623-7868

Spoke: Kikino Métis Settlement












Paddle Prairie Métis Settlement

Hub: Paddle Prairie Métis Settlement

(780) 981-2227








Spoke: Paddle Prairie Métis Settlement












Peavine Métis Settlement

Hub: Peavine Métis Settlement

(780) 523-4488

Spoke: Peavine Métis Settlement












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