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May is Sexual Assault Prevention Month

 April 22, 2025

Everyone in Canada deserve to be safe and free from violence. May is Sexual Violence Prevention Month, an opportunity to raise awareness about sexual abuse and support people experiencing sexual violence in this country.

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ALIGN Well-Being in Child and Family Services Initiative

 April 22, 2025

The way we define and understand child and youth well-being matters.

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ALIGN’s Well-Being Toolkit Community of Practice (CoP)

 April 21, 2025

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.

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2025 Federal Election: Make your priorities known (Inclusion Alberta)

 April 18, 2025

Inclusion Alberta encourages every Albertan 18 years and older, including those with intellectual disabilities, to participate in the federal election and exercise their right to vote on election day, April 28, 2025.

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Alberta.ca Bill 53: Compassionate Intervention Act Legislation Tabled

 April 17, 2025

The Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions has introduced Bill 53: Compassionate Intervention Act.

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MHRC Launches New Youth Mental Health Data Hub Launch April 2025

 April 10, 2025

MHRC and GreenShield have launched this new resource to deliver unparalleled insights into the mental health of young Canadians in collaboration with leading youth mental health organizations.

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Strength in Numbers: The 2023-2024 ACWS Report on Domestic Violence Shelter Impact in Alberta

 April 10, 2025

Released April 2025 this report reveals a continued rise in demand for shelter services and the urgent need for sustained support to keep up with the growing complexity of survivors’ needs.

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Empowering Providers Serving Gender-Diverse Youth (PolicyWise)

 April 9, 2025

Provincial governments across Canada have been announcing and enacting changes to laws affecting the health and well-being of gender-diverse youth. These legislative changes have increased the demand for evidence-based information on how best to support these youth, their families, and their communities. Recognizing this need, PolicyWise for Children & Families is proud to launch the Empowering Providers initiative.

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KPMG Survey Child and Family Services Key Trends Survey

 April 8, 2025

KPMG has launched a national survey to better understand the current landscape of services and supports for children, youth, and families across the country. The goal is to identify shared challenges, surface leading practices, and inform system transformation efforts—from service integration and workforce modernization to reducing cultural inequities.

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OCYA Calling for Change Report 2025: Consultation Opportunities for Young People and Practitioners

 March 27, 2025

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.

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CoRe White Paper Effective and Compassionate Intervention: Civil Commitment for Individuals with Severe Addiction in Alberta

 March 21, 2025

The policy white paper (March 21, 2025) was developed by The Canadian Centre of Recovery Excellence CoRE following its creation in summer 2024, at the request of Alberta’s Ministry of Mental Health and Addiction.

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Report - Indigenous Land-Based Research Gathering: Summary of Learnings from Talking Circles

A Way Home Canada and the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness’s Making the Shift Youth Homelessness Social Innovation Lab, in partnership with Waakebiness Institute for Indigenous Health, hosted a two-day, summative knowledge-sharing gathering held on the land and in ceremony.

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An Introduction to Decolonizing Indigenous Research

 March 11, 2025

A Way Home Canada, Canadian Observatory on Homelessness & Making the Shift Youth Homelessness Social Innovation Lab

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Alberta.ca Open Data Emergency Shelters Daily Occupancy Updated March 2025

 March 9, 2025

This collection of datasets provided by Seniors, Community and Social Services (SCSS)

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A Guide to Serve & Return (Center on the Developing Child Harvard University)

 March 5, 2025

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.

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fACT Sheet: 2025 Alberta Provincial Budget (ESPC)

 March 4, 2025

The 2025-26 Alberta budget, titled Meeting the Challenge, covers finances from April 1, 2025 until March 31, 2026 and seeks to continue to build the province and support Albertans during a challenging time period.

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Bill 37: Alberta.ca Amendments to the Mental Health Services Protection Act (MHSPA) February 2025

 February 28, 2025

The act, its regulation, and four sets of standards provide requirements for the following licensed mental health and addiction services: Bed-based addiction treatment, drug consumption services, narcotic transition services and psychedelic drug treatment

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PolicyWise Creating a Roadmap to Prevent Youth Homelessness February 2025

 February 28, 2025

This roadmap seeks to create information that brings light to effective prevention strategies through research and evaluation

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MHRC Report Unsupported Needs: Access to Mental Health and Substance Use Services...

 February 18, 2025

Diving deeper into national trends of mental health service access, this report explores how severity of mental health symptoms or substance use behaviours relates to how Canadians are accessing support

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Alberta Opens First Eating Disorders Recovery Centre in Calgary Supporting Youth & Adults

 February 6, 2025

Operated by EHN Canada, the 12-bed EHN Sandstone Recovery Centre in Calgary increases access to specialized eating disorders treatment in the province providing up to 52 youth and young adults with treatment free of charge every year.

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The Disability Policy in Canada Provincial and Territorial Report January 2025

 January 31, 2025

New report published January 2025 signals provinces and territories must work together to eliminate barriers for persons with disabilities

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Calgary's Enough for All Well-Being Dashboard

 January 23, 2025

The Enough for All Well-Being Dashboard brings to life vital data demonstrating Calgary's progress toward achieving its poverty-reduction goals. See yearly changes and trends in income, housing, education, employment, and more.

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The Role of Mentoring for Foster Parents & Why It Matters (ALIGN)

 January 22, 2025

Mentoring children and youth offers significant value, both for the individuals involved and for society as a whole. Below are some of the key benefits of mentoring:

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Online Training Decolonizing, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (Homeless Learning Hub)

 January 9, 2025

Free, on-demand training designed to support anyone working in the homeless-serving sector who is committed to creating an inclusive and equitable environment for all.

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Alberta Set to Change How Social Agencies Serving the Homeless are Funded in 2025

 December 23, 2024

The Alberta Government announced upcoming changes to how services for Alberta's homeless population will be funded and will now provide funding directly to front-line agencies versus distributed through community-based organizations.

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A Call for Meaningful Action in 2025 (Inclusion Canada)

 December 17, 2024

The federal government released its Fall Economic Statement (FES) with new priorities and new spending—but no meaningful progress to lift people with disabilities out of poverty. Inclusion Canada is deeply disappointed that, despite Minister Chrystia Freeland’s resignation and clear signs of an economic pivot, this government continues to neglect the urgent needs of Canadians with disabilities.

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This December, Be Part of a Provincial Story of Well-Being Impact! (Well-Being Eblast Nov 2024)

 December 4, 2024

This December, we invite you to share your organization’s work of supporting Well-Being and create a Provincial Story of Impact with the ALIGN Well-Being Impact Portal and Dashboard. .

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The State of Mental Health in Canada 2024 Report (CMHA)

On November 19, 2024 the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) released The State of Mental Health in Canada 2024, a first-of-its-kind deep dive into the landscape of mental health, addictions, and substance use health care in Canada using data from across the country.

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A Generation at Risk: The State of Youth Mental Health in Canada October 2024

 October 30, 2024

Mental Health Research Canada's (MHRC) report is the first comprehensive and collaborative national report of its kind to be released in at least five years.

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Alberta.ca Ensuring Wraparound Services

 October 25, 2024

Minister of Health Adriana LaGrange and Minister of Seniors, Community and Social Services Jason Nixon issued the following update on continuing care and the health refocusing work originally announced in November 2023: “

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MCHB: Centering Stories in an Ecological Framework (ALIGN's Well-Being Eblast Oct. 2024)

 October 24, 2024

This month we feature Hannah Goa’s experience of piloting the toolkit at the Multicultural Health Broker Cooperative (MCHB) in Edmonton. Hannah has been supporting the Intercultural FRN work for the past 4 years and is responsible for reporting to funders. She became interested in joining the toolkit pilot group to inspire her work on their Evaluation Framework that uniquely reflects the values and principles of cultural brokering.

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Establishing Community Pathways to Prevention Services In the Context of the Family First Prevention Services Act Report 2024

Authors Krista Thomas, Olivia Wilks / Chapin Hall 2024. Many families facing difficulties often don’t receive support until their situations become serious, putting them at risk of child welfare involvement.

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Toolkit Mobilizing on the Right to Housing for Women, Two-Spirit, & Gender-Diverse People

 October 22, 2024

If you or your community has been impacted by the gendered housing crisis, your voice is needed! Check out the toolkit to learn how you can get involved in this historic process.

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Homelessness Data Improvement Framework (Homelessness Learning Hub)

 September 25, 2024

This tool can also be used to guide discussions on data quality amongst community partners and local leaders

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CDS Sector Priorities 2023 – 2026 (PDD)

 September 12, 2024

ACDS has highlighted seven priorities to guide our advocacy work for the CDS sector and corresponding collaborative opportunities with the Government of Alberta

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ALIGN Statement: Nurturing Children’s Needs: Analyzing the Connection of Gender Policy in Alberta

 September 11, 2024

Understanding the Importance of Gender Policy in Alberta: Promoting Children's Rights and Well-Being

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