Resources for Parents

Service Resources

KARA Family Resource Centre - KARA provides educational programming, groups, and events designed to create positive outcomes for children and their families throughout the Edmonton area.
The Norwood Centre - Norwood offers a number of free parent groups that focus on family education to promote healthy child development, positive parenting strategies and healthy attachment.
CASA Family Therapy Program - This program helps family members to understand each others’ needs and find better ways to work together. The program focuses on strengthening the ability of parents to support children with a mental health disorder, improving family relationships, and helping other professionals to support families with complex dynamics.

Information Resources

Child Mind Institute - When a child is struggling, the whole family is affected. Explore the concerns and challenges heard about most from parents and receive expert guidance on how to respond in the most effective way.
Understood.org Take N.O.T.E Series - Notice, Observe, Talk and Engage; a helpful place for parents and caregivers to start when trying to understand what you are seeing when your child is struggling.
When Someone Your Child Loves Dies: Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children's Media - This is a 2-page pamphlet that offers information and tips on the process a child might go through when someone close to them dies.
Video: InBrief: Early Childhood Mental Health (5 minutes)
Video: Am I Enough? CASA Family Advisory Council Photovoice Research Project 2020 - (15 minutes) - A collaborative research project between CASA and the University of Calgary has produced this informative video that touches on the current mental health pandemic we are facing.
Video: Say don’t say: what youth with mental health challenges really want from their parents and caregivers (45 minutes) - A video from CASA partner, FamilySmart®

COVID-19 Resources

Alberta Health Services (AHS) VIRTUAL Mental Health Education Sessions
Alberta Health Services (AHS) Back to School During COVID-19
COVID-19 Information for Kids - Alberta Health Services has created a brochure to address frequently asked questions surrounding coronavirus (COVID-19) for young children and students.
CASA Presents: "Our Mental Health" Webcasts - In collaboration with YESS, Kickstand, and the Glenrose Foundation,CASA is pleased to bring a series of webcasts once again, created to assist families and community members in dealing with the many mental health concerns coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic.
CoronaPhobia.Org - Several Universities around Canada and the United States have collaborated to bring together up-to-date information, publications, and resources surrounding COVID – 19.
Education at Home Resources: Alberta Regional Professional Development Consortia (ARPDC): Supporting Learning at Home - Resources for teachers, education administration, parents, caregivers, and everyone else to support mental health in the time of at-home learning and virtual education.
Video: World Health Organizationon COVID-19 (5 minutes) - The World Health Organization released a short informative video regarding the COVID-19 virus.

How to Find a Family Doctor

College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta - You can use the search tool at this link to help you find a family doctor who is accepting new patients.