News Posted On Aug 27, 2019

Safe Visitation Update

The Family Centre continues to offer counselling services, group therapy, parenting, self-improvement, anger management, workplace, and couples workshops. But we no longer offer supervised/safe visitation services. If you require this type of service,…

News Posted On May 23, 2019

The Rainbow Pages Gets a Platform Upgrade

Online access to our LGBTQ+ resource guide, The Rainbow Pages, is available through our new and improved website. Transitioning into adulthood can be tough, finding resources shouldn’t have to be! The upgraded platform is a safe space where youth…

News Posted On Apr 01, 2019

Trauma-Informed Culture at The Family Centre

In the fall of 2016, The Family Centre embarked on a journey to becoming a trauma-informed agency. This came after several years of increasing our knowledge in brain development, attachment, the impacts of trauma, and poverty as a systemic issue. We…

News Posted On Mar 09, 2018

Our in-home family support program (Roots and Wings) goes through an evaluation

Our in-home family support program, Roots and Wings, was created in 1995 as a response to a growing need that Edmonton caregivers had identified: individualized support with parenting. The type of support that was accessible, and addressed complex issues…

News Posted On Jan 29, 2018

Success coach at Lorelei School helped numerous students

When Julie Zelinski, principal at Lorelei School, learned that several Syrian refugees would soon attend the school, she contacted us. Julie was familiar with the success coach role at The Family Centre, but she didn’t need just any coach – she…

News Posted On Dec 06, 2017

Drop-in counselling program continues to grow

Our free drop-in counselling program is expanding again! Counselling is now available on Mondays at the Highlands Edmonton Public Library Branch from 1 to 4 PM and at the Penny McKee – Abbottsfield EPL Branch from 5 to 8 PM. With these new additions,…

News Posted On Jun 15, 2017

Letter to the Child Intervention Panel

We sent the following letter to the Child Intervention Panel on behalf of the eight Edmonton community Collaborative Service Delivery (CSD) lead agencies and Edmonton Area Child and Family Services. May 30, 2017 On behalf of the eight Edmonton community…

News Posted On Mar 24, 2017

The Family Centre participates in BarnRaise Edmonton

How to improve early childhood development for a poverty-free future in Edmonton? This question was the challenge at BarnRaise. BarnRaise is a conference that brings together community organizations, design facilitators, and participants to collaborate…

News Posted On Mar 10, 2017

Our success coach wins an award

Kudos to our success coach Matt Wiebe, who won an Edmonton Public Schools’ district recognition award along with the mental health collaborative team at Lillian Osborne high school. “Thanks to the Mental Health Collaborative team, the dialogue around…

News Posted On Dec 28, 2016

Kinship family wins an award

We were thrilled to learn that a family that we have been supporting won the ‘Kinship Family of the Year’ award for Child and Family Services Region 6 (Edmonton). The family includes Dorothy and her grandchildren, siblings Lisa and Jordan. Dorothy…

News Posted On Oct 21, 2016

Neighbourhood Empowerment Team presentation at a policing conference

The Family Centre is part of Edmonton’s Neighbourhood Empowerment Team (NET), along with the City of Edmonton Community Services, Edmonton Police Service, and United Way of the Alberta Capital Region. This week our Andrew Pahl will be co-presenting…

News Posted On Sep 27, 2016

Breakfast program at a school

Tannis, our success coach at an Edmonton school, and Sarah, our youth liaison, noticed that more and more students were hungry. A survey confirmed those suspicions: 20% of students said they were coming to school hungry all or most of the time. As they…

News Posted On Jul 26, 2016

Announcement: New CEO

On behalf of The Family Centre’s Board of Directors, we welcome our 9th CEO Pauline Smale to her new position. The Board has given careful consideration to the strategic leadership required to innovate and deliver outcome based services, as well…

News Posted On Jul 26, 2016

Fundraiser for the United Way

As The Family Centre is a United Way member agency, our employees experience the positive impact that United Way has in our community firsthand. Each year we run a United Way workplace campaign. This year’s theme was “You Make a World of Difference”,…

News Posted On Jul 26, 2016

The Alberta Family Wellness Initiative

The Alberta Family Wellness Initiative (AFWI) is a multi-disciplinary initiative that connects early brain and biological development and children’s mental health with addiction research, prevention, and treatment. The AFWI seeks to translate current…

News Posted On Jul 26, 2016

The Way In

The Way In Program is an innovative partnership between Edmonton Public Schools, Alberta Health Services: Mental Health & Addictions, B&GBigs, Kids Up Front and The Family Centre which supports teens and their families to create brighter futures. This…

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