Family and Community Safety Grants

Further Education Society

Calgary

New Beginnings: Parenting After Violence Community Initiative, builds on the "Taking Shelter with Literacy Program."  This program will use a literacy informed holistic model to reduce the links between illiteracy, poverty and family violence by working or reduce risk factor by building personal and parenting skills.

ASSIST Community Services Centre

Edmonton

Strengthening Child Safety with New Immigrant Families Program: The project aims to build the capacity of parents and caregivers to support their children’s safety from and in the event of bullying, cyberbullying and exposure to family violence. The focus is new immigrant families in Arabic, Somalian and Sudanese communities. The project will build a team of liaisons who will represent the communities they serve.

Crowsnest Pass Women's Resource and Crisis Centre

Blairmore

Mentoring Moms Program: Will provide single and low-income mothers, struggling with addictions or mental health issues, with increased emotional support including increased parenting skills and building community connectedness to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Opokaa'sin Early Intervention Society

Lethbridge

North Star - Aapatski'kaktosi - The Building Stronger Urban Aboriginal Families: This project will provide culturally relevant parenting programs for Indigenous families to reduce their involvement with child welfare and prevent family violence and child abuse.

Hull Services

Calgary

Community Parent Education Program (CPEP): This is a family strengthening program open to all families in the community with children ages 5-17. The focus is on improving the quality of family life and parent-child relationships.

Red Deer CAC

Red Deer

Child Advocacy Center: Multi-disciplinary teams of caring professionals – child protection investigators, police officers, prosecutors, and volunteers – supporting children and youth affected by physical and sexual abuse.

Lethbridge CAC

Lethbridge

Child Advocacy Center: Multi-disciplinary teams of caring professionals – child protection investigators, police officers, prosecutors, and volunteers – supporting children and youth affected by physical and sexual abuse.

Caribou Child and Youth Centre

Grande Prairie

Child Advocacy Center: Multi-disciplinary teams of caring professionals – child protection investigators, police officers, prosecutors, and volunteers – supporting children and youth affected by physical and sexual abuse.

Fort McMurray Victim Services Society

Fort McMurray

Wood Buffalo Children's Advocacy Centre: The grant will be used to support a Project Enhancement Manager, with a multi-disciplinary team, with supports for victims of abuse. The goal of the team is to maximize the mental health of children and youth going through the justice system to prevent their re-victimization.

Lloydminster Sexual Assault and Information Centre

Lloydminster

Little Big Bear Advocacy Centre: This project supports the development of the Little Big Bear Advocacy Centre and the Sexual Assault Response Team (SART). The goal is to provide enhanced supports for children impacted by sexual abuse and their families through collaboration, training for organizations and recruitment of volunteers.

Sheldon Kennedy Child Advocacy Centre

Calgary & Southern Alberta

Regional Child Advocacy Center (CAC) Hub: Supporting Local CACs or satellite organizations with a wide range of specialized services including training, research and evaluation, and prevention, education and awareness

Zebra Child Protection Centre

Edmonton & Northern Alberta

Regional Child Advocacy Center (CAC) Hub: Supporting Local CACs or satellite organizations with a wide range of specialized services including training, research and evaluation, and prevention, education and awareness

Alliance Jeunesse-Famille de l'Alberta Society

Edmonton

Building Protective Mechanisms Within African Francophone Families:  This project will work in an ethno-culturally sensitive way with women in the African Francophone community (Congo, Ivory Coast and Chad) who are victims of family violence.  The project will provide education and awareness supports to the community, as well as engaging men and boys on family violence and will build capacity within the community to promote healthy relationships.

North Rocky View Community Links Society

Airdrie

Family Violence Services:  Increase the number of counsellors for those impacted by family violence, as well as continuing the provision of HomeFront (Safe Communities) which is a court-mandated service for those impacted by family violence.  Focus on Indigenous and rural communities.

REACH Edmonton

Edmonton

Immigrant and Refugee Initiative:  Addressing family violence in a cultural context by raising awareness of available supports and how to navigate the system of social supports and to improve service delivery by collaborating with community partners.  Focus on immigrant communities.

Town of Bonnyville

Bonnyville

Bonnyville Family Support Facilitator: The Family Support Facilitator will provide services and supports to those affected by family violence, including strengthening coping abilities and settlement for new immigrants building on family strengths and referrals to further services. Focus on Indigenous, immigrant and rural communities.

Valleyview Victims' Assistance

Valleyview

HEART - Health Education and Action in Relationship Team:  Establish healthy relationships for all age groups, genders and cultures by increasing awareness of domestic violence issues through organizing domestic violence conferences for northern Albertans.  Focus on Indigenous and rural communities.

High Prairie and Area Prevention of Family Violence Association

Northwest Region – High Prairie

Community Action Plan: The plan will provide a coordinated approach to supporting individuals experiencing family violence.  Community service providers will be brought together to develop a local model to provide a continuum of services in alignment with the provincial framework.  Community plans will focus on awareness, prevention, intervention, outreach and enforcement services. 

Family Violence and Bullying Council

North East Region – Fort McMurray

Community Action Plan: The plan will provide a coordinated approach to supporting individuals experiencing family violence.  Community service providers will be brought together to develop a local model to provide a continuum of services in alignment with the provincial framework.  Community plans will focus on awareness, prevention, intervention, outreach and enforcement services. 

Pembina Crisis Connection Society

North Central Region – Pembina/Drayton Valley

Community Action Plan: The plan will provide a coordinated approach to supporting individuals experiencing family violence.  Community service providers will be brought together to develop a local model to provide a continuum of services in alignment with the provincial framework.  Community plans will focus on awareness, prevention, intervention, outreach and enforcement services. 

Vision 4 Non-Violence

Central Region – Town of Sylvan Lake

Community Action Plan: The plan will provide a coordinated approach to supporting individuals experiencing family violence.  Community service providers will be brought together to develop a local model to provide a continuum of services in alignment with the provincial framework.  Community plans will focus on awareness, prevention, intervention, outreach and enforcement services. 

Community Initiatives Against Family Violence

Edmonton Region - Edmonton

Community Action Plan: The plan will provide a coordinated approach to supporting individuals experiencing family violence.  Community service providers will be brought together to develop a local model to provide a continuum of services in alignment with the provincial framework.  Community plans will focus on awareness, prevention, intervention, outreach and enforcement services. 

Calgary Domestic Violence Collective

Calgary Region - Calgary

Community Action Plan: The plan will provide a coordinated approach to supporting individuals experiencing family violence.  Community service providers will be brought together to develop a local model to provide a continuum of services in alignment with the provincial framework.  Community plans will focus on awareness, prevention, intervention, outreach and enforcement services. 

Southeastern Alberta Sexual Assault Response Committee

South Region – Medicine Hat

Community Action Plan: The plan will provide a coordinated approach to supporting individuals experiencing family violence.  Community service providers will be brought together to develop a local model to provide a continuum of services in alignment with the provincial framework.  Community plans will focus on awareness, prevention, intervention, outreach and enforcement services. 

Métis Settlements General Council

Métis Settlements – Alberta

Community Action Plan: The plan will provide a coordinated approach to supporting individuals experiencing family violence.  Community service providers will be brought together to develop a local model to provide a continuum of services in alignment with the provincial framework.  Community plans will focus on awareness, prevention, intervention, outreach and enforcement services. 

Alberta Council of Women's Shelters

Province-wide

Building Shelter Capacity to Work with Indigenous People and Communities: In partnership with the on-reserve women's emergency shelters, ACWS will build an action plan to create awareness of services and supports provided by women's emergency shelters in Alberta.

Calgary Women's Emergency Shelter

Southern Alberta

Centralized Intake - Women's Emergency Shelters:  This project will create a centralized intake procedure and process for Calgary and area women's emergency shelters to better coordinate access and entry to the emergency shelters and support services they offer.  Focusing on rural, immigrant and Indigenous people.

Catholic Family Service

Calgary

Fathers Moving Forward Program – The '`Young Dads’ project will reduce the risk of child mistreatment and family violence in young families through parenting groups designed to build knowledge and an evidence-based practices to improve co-parenting relationships between young parents.

Central Alberta Immigrant Women’s Association

Red Deer

Safe Families: This collaborative community action plan will address the needs of new immigrants experiencing family violence within Red Deer and area through an integrated community approach.

Dene Tha’ First Nations

Dene Tha’

Keeping Families Safe:  This project will provide supports to decrease family violence in the community through an outreach worker, as well as through the development and implementation of an integrated community action plan. 

East Indian Women's Cultural Connection Society

Calgary

Community Initiatives for Abused East Indian Women:  This agency helps abused East Indian women and their children in their native language and provides in-home family support, counselling and legal advocacy as well as interpreter services.

Edmonton Mennonite Centre for Newcomers

Edmonton

Engaging Immigrant and Refugee Newcomer Men and Boys: Violence prevention programming will provide supports to fathers and sons during their settlement journey. A strong focus will be on developing healthy relationships and navigating new cultural environments in a healthy way.

Healthy Families Healthy Futures Society

Westlock
Athabasca
Barrhead

Community Action for Healthy Relationships (CAHR) Network:  This program focuses on outreach services to clients impacted by family violence, conducting danger assessments and creating safety plans.  It will also extend healthy relationship groups to rural areas to provide further intervention supports. 

High Level Community Policing Society

High Level

Domestic Violence Response Unit (DVRU):  This project will provide a direct response to high incident rates of family violence and ensure that the needs of the family will be met during a crisis. 

Hinton Friendship Centre Society

Hinton

West Yellowhead Domestic Violence Treatment Program:  This family violence program uses therapists to extend the reach of the program to the families of the offender.  The program offers a cultural worker to provide outreach to Indigenous people families impacted by family violence. 

HomeFront Society for the Prevention of Domestic Violence

Calgary

Domestic Conflict Response Team:  Provides in-home support to families impacted by family violence.  These families are identified by Child and Family Services, the police or community agencies that are in contact with the family, such as schools, churches and social agencies.

Hope Haven Society

Lac La Biche and area

Lac La Biche and Area Family Violence Program:  This program was designed based on community needs and will provide community members with tools to create healthy relationships through a 12-week program.  Focus on Indigenous and rural communities.

Legal Aid Society of Alberta

Calgary

Calgary Emergency Protection Order Program (CEPOP):  This program provides access to justice services with no-cost assistance to claimants who are navigating the legal system due to domestic violence issues.  

Norwood Child and Family Resource Centre

Edmonton

Relentless Caring Connections:  Through a collaborative partnership, this project addresses multiple and complex needs of at-risk families by ensuring they have access to wraparound supports.  The hope is to increase a protective factor to decrease family violence.  Focus is on immigrant communities.

Parkland Turning Points Society

Stony Plain

Offender Treatment and Victim Supports Program Expansion:  This treatment program is for both victim and offenders of family violence, with a focus on the cycle of abuse.  

The Today Family Violence Help Centre

Edmonton

Specialized Support for High-Risk Victims of Family Violence Prevention Partnership Project:  This project promotes the development of a community action service plan by increasing wraparound support in one location for family violence victims in high-risk populations.  Target populations include ethno-cultural and LGBTQ communities.

Wetaskiwin and District Victim Services Society

Wetaskiwin

Family Violence Project:  This project promotes awareness of family violence in the community and provides victim services to people impacted by family violence.  The client focus will be on Indigenous people struggling with mental health issues.