Child Intervention
View All ResourcesAlberta.ca Deaths of children, youth and young Adults Receiving Child Intervention Services March 2025
Published March 2025 Deaths of Children, Youth and Young Adults Receiving Intervention Services April 1, 2015 to February 28, 2025

ALIGN’s Well-Being Toolkit Community of Practice (CoP) is April 11, 2025. Join Us!
The CoP is an informal community of like-minded practitioners and evaluators in the child and family serving sector who are interested in growing their organization’s impact on child and youth well-being.

OCYA Calling for Change Report 2025: Consultation Opportunities for Young People and Practitioners
The Office of the Child and Youth Advocate’s 2024-2025 Calling for Change – Consolidated Investigative Review is underway. The focus of this year’s report is how systems recognize, support, and intervene when young people experience trauma, grief and loss and the consequences of unresolved trauma, grief, and loss, and pain-based behaviours that can happen as a result.

ALIGN CONNECTIONS For Indigenous Children/Youth & Caregivers March 2025
CONNECTIONS is monthly newsletter designed to support Foster and Kinship Caregivers to ensure First Nations, Metis & Inuit children in their care have access to cultural resources, activities and events that broaden their cultural awareness.

Alberta.ca Increasing Financial Support for Foster and Kinship Caregivers
Minister Searle Turton announced that if passed, Budget 2025 will provide a two per cent rate increase for foster and kinship caregivers, an investment of $3.1 million, to help support with the costs of raising a child or youth in their care.

Empowering Futures Presentation Materials Now Available
This event allowed us to engage in deep discussions about Indigenous jurisdiction over child welfare, the barriers and opportunities in Alberta, and what meaningful action looks like moving forward.

ALIGN Well-Being in Child and Family Services Initiative
The way we define and understand child and youth well-being matters.

ALIGN's Indigenous Cultural Understanding Framework (ICUF)
A Digital Interactive Journey to increase cultural understanding within Alberta agencies so that all Indigenous children living in Alberta can live in dignity and respect, supported by people with a deeper understanding of Indigenous worldviews, history and current reality.

A Guide to Serve & Return (Center on the Developing Child Harvard University)
The resources in this guide offer more on the science behind serve and return, practical ways to implement it, and strategies to support caregivers and children.
