Family Matters

Provides a flexible community response to prevent children and youths from leaving their home and community where a parent child conflict occurs. The focus is on preserving the family and providing immediate help in the context of that family's situation and diverting the youth from accessing a shelter or a more restrictive placement.

Home Visitation

The Calgary Regional Home Visitation Collaborative is a community of care agencies serving children and families whose main focus is looking at the best interests of children in the Calgary Region. It is unique in that it begins to support families at birth. This in-home family support service is strength based and long term. It is provided to families through the Healthy Families Program.

The Kiwehtata Program

The Kiwehtata("Take it home" in Cree) program is designed with a hands on approach to teach parents how to provide the best possible environment for their children. The program is a two-week day program (offered at CUPS) with in-home support and a one day per week follow-up program.

West Central Community Resource Centre

Provides key early interventions to parents, children and youths. The Centre is equipped to respond to immediate needs with a variety of services.

FCSS Diversionary Position

The family support position provides a variety of support functions that focus on reducing isolation and connecting families to the community as well as providing parenting education that helps to prevent future problems. The Family Support Worker is responsible for working with community parents in the southwest section of the city to individualize parent training, visit the families in their homes, and organize parent informal networks. All of the services are offered free of charge to community members in the area of Spruce Cliff, Shaganappi, Rosscarrock, Wildwood, Glendale/Glendale Meadows, Westgate, Glamorgan, Glenbrook, and Killarney/Glengarry.

K.I.D.S (Kids in Dayhomes Services) Program

The K.I.D.S (Kids in Dayhomes Services) Program is designed to support day home caregivers and parents in providing the best possible environment for children to grow and develop. In a three way partnership, Closer To Home Community Services, the WestCentral CRC and Shaganappi Family Day Home Agency will work together to strengthen the regulated and non-regulated homes specifically in COS 4. These services will specifically target children age 0-6 who are receiving care from paid caregivers and who require additional supports in the home. A major thrust of the service will be in identifying the non-regulated homes in the community who are not currently receiving any support or monitoring of the children under their care. The children in these homes are potentially more vulnerable and at risk as these homes do not come under any licensing or supervision body. Through outreach and relationship building, the KIDS program will seek to engage these caregivers and the families they serve to provide support, parent training and increase the safety and health of the children

The Airdrie Teaching Home

Emphasis on family preservation and reunification through delivering the least intrusive and restrictive services possible to children and families in a family style community home.

Achievement Place Teaching Home

Family style community home for youth with emotional and behavioural issues.

Foster Care

Provides specialized treatment oriented, family based placements for children who would otherwise be placed in group homes.

Independent Living Services

Supports teenagers and young adults with behavioural and emotional problems mild to moderate mental handicaps, and social competency deficits in a community setting.

Pekewe Native Reunification Services Pekewe: Come home.

Strategies for change, support and treatment with a culturally sensitive framework for Aboriginal families in a family care home in a community setting. Provides specialized treatment oriented, family based placements for children who would otherwise be placed in group homes.