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Government Agencies

Alberta Government
  • Alberta Ministry of Children and Youth Services The Ministry of Alberta Children and Youth Services, created in May 1999, offers a range of services and programs for children and families. We support families and communities, enabling them to provide nurturing, safe environments for their children. We strive to break the cycles of family violence, abuse and poverty that prevent some children from becoming strong, sound individuals.
    www.child.gov.ab.ca
  • Alberta Seniors and Community Supports Alberta Seniors and Community Supports is responsible for delivering programs and services for a wide range of Albertans. The Ministry consists of four key areas: Seniors Services, Community Support Programs and Strategic Planning, Disability Supports, and Strategic Corporate Services. In addition, the Seniors Advisory Council for Alberta, the Premier’s Council on the Status of Persons with Disabilities, six Persons with Developmental Disabilities (PDD) boards, and the Communications and Strategic Human Resources branches are also part of the Ministry.
    www.seniors.gov.ab.ca
  • Region 5 East Central Alberta Child & Family Services Authority The East Central Alberta Child and Family Services Authority is responsible for planning and overseeing the delivery of services to children and families residing in its region, as well as ensuring that provincial standards are met. These services include child welfare, resources for children with disabilities, child care, working with communities through Family and Community Support Services, prevention of family violence, foster care and adoption services.
    www.eastcentralalbertacfsa.gov.ab.ca
Government of Canada
  • Seniors Canada Online Seniors Canada On-line provides single-window access to Web based information and services that are relevant to seniors 55+, their families, caregivers and supporting service organizations.
    www.seniors.gc.ca

Health and Safety

Food Safety
  • Food Safety Information Society A non-profit association, the Food Safety Information Society (FSIS) was incorporated under the Alberta Societies Act in 1997. FSIS is administrated by a volunteer board of eight directors. The Directors, while sharing a commitment to providing consumers access to food safety information, bring a diversity of education, professional and volunteer experience to the management of the society.
    www.foodsafetyline.org
Abuse Prevention
  • Alberta Elder Abuse Information Network The Alberta Elder Abuse Awareness Network is a network of Albertans dedicated to increasing awareness and supporting a community response to elder abuse. Canada’s fastest growing population is over the age of 65 and rapidly becoming vulnerable to abuse that can rob them of their well-being, dignity and, horrifyingly, their lives.
    www.albertaelderabuse.ca/
  • www.bullying.org Where you are NOT alone! www.bullying.org is a multiple award-winning Web site that was created to help people with the issues of bullying within a safe, positive international community. www.bullying.org is a supportive community where people can learn that they are NOT alone in being bullied and teased, that being bullied and teased is NOT their fault and that they CAN do something positive about it.
    www.bullying.org
  • Kids Help Phone Website Kids Help Phone is committed to improving the well-being of Canada’s children. To that end, we are constantly seeking new ways to make a difference.
    www.kidshelpphone.ca

FCSS Community

Partner Municipalities
Neighbor Agencies
  • Catholic Social Services Catholic Social Services is a multi-function social service agency that serves people of all faiths and cultures throughout central and northeast Alberta.
    www.catholicsocialservices.ab.ca
  • East Central Health East Central Health is one of nine expanded Regional Health Authorities that came into effect April 1, 2003 in Alberta. ECH serves communities in the counties of Beaver, Camrose, Flagstaff, Lamont, Minburn, Two Hills, Vermilion River and the Municipal Districts of Provost and Wainwright.
    www.ech.ab.ca
  • CFB/ASU Wainwright Military Family Resource Center Community resources, including casual child care for families living on base at Camp Wainwright (CFB/ASU Wainwright).
    www.familyforce.ca
FCSS Organizations

Specialized Programs

Child, Family and Group Education & Development
  • Storytime Program Story time programs for children ages 3-5 are held weekly at the Wainwright Public Library. (Prior registration required.)
    www.wainwrightlibrary.ab.ca
  • Sunrise Music Program Sunrise is an exciting and innovative pre-school music program for children 2 and 3 years old. The program has a flexible format that allows adaptation to a variety of age and environmental situations including daycare and nursery school centers as well as home studios of certified Music for Young Children Sunrise teachers.
    Teaching locations > Canada > Alberta > Wainwright
    www.myc.com
  • The Virtues Project™ The mission of The Virtues Project™ is to provide empowering strategies that inspire the practice of virtues in everyday life.
    www.virtuesproject.com
  • Alberta’s Promise A Partnership with Children and Youth
    Alberta’s Promise is a movement to facilitate Partnerships between communities, businesses, service clubs, foundations and agencies to work together to direct more resources to benefit our children and youth.
    www.albertaspromise.org
Sites for Youth

Related Services

Family & Community Information Portals
  • informALBERTA InformAlberta is one of many provincial partners in the national InformCanada network of community information and referral services.
    informalberta.ca
  • Canadian Child Care Federation
    Fédération Canadienne des Services de Garde à l’Enfance Fifty Canadian non-profit organizations have come together under the banner of Child & Family Canada to provide quality, credible resources on children and families on an easy-to-navigate website. The managing partner of the consortium is the Canadian Child Care Federation.
    www.cccf-fcsge.ca
  • Alberta Community Economic Development Community Economic Development is “action by people locally to create new economic opportunities, improve social conditions and environmental conditions on a sustainable and inclusive basis.”
    www.abced.ca
  • Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation Fueled by a legacy. Strengthened by community.
    For more than two decades, the Edmonton Oilers Hockey Club has given assistance in a variety of ways to thousands of community organizations. To continue that legacy of giving, the Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation was created. The Foundation is dedicated to building strong and vibrant communities by contributing its unique resources and financial support to charitable organizations that serve the communities of Northern Alberta. www.oilersfoundation.ca

Links of Special Interest

Things to See, and Learn and Do
  • Wainwright & District Chamber of Commerce The Chamber of Commerce is a voluntary, not for profit organization, incorporated under the Board of Trade Act and a member of both the Alberta Chambers of Commerce and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. We are a strong and viable organization representing the needs of the community, a federation uniting the efforts of businesses, professionals, organizations and individuals to ensure a healthy economic and socio-economic base to benefit the entire community.
    www.wdchamber.com
  • TELUS Learning Connection The 2Learn Education Society presents, TELUS Learning Connection 2Learn.ca Portal in English, [et en français]. Resources with an ever-widening scope for parents, children and educators.
    www.2learn.ca

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