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What Budget 2026 Means for ALIGN Members and the Disability Service Sector
Budget 2026, if passed, will invest $3.7 billion to support Albertans with disabilities, the highest level of investment in the history of the province.
AHS Pediatric Rehabilitation Resources
Pediatric rehabilitation helps children and youth live the best life they can, build resilience, and take part in the activities meaningful to them and their families.
ADS Report: Alberta Disability Summit: Listening in a Good Way-Indigenous Perspectives on Disability (ALIGN)
Listening in a Good Way: Indigenous Perspectives on Disability shares what was heard at the Alberta Disability Summit November 27, 2026 – Indigenous Cultural Understanding, held on Tsuut’ina Nation. This reflection centres Indigenous voices, lived experience, and community knowledge, highlighting barriers, strengths, and opportunities to move disability services toward more culturally grounded, relationship-based approaches.
ALIGN’s Winter Count Project: Acimowina – Teaching Stories
Six months before the AGM, we gathered in ceremony led by Elder Harley Crowshoe at Trellis Society, within Treaty 7 territory—the traditional lands of the Blackfoot Confederacy. This wasn’t just a meeting; it was a beginning. Elder Harley guided us in grounding our process in cultural protocol and spiritual intention. From that moment, the Winter Count became more than a project—it became a journey.
Action Urgently Needed - Contact Your MLA about FSCD and PDD
Inclusion Alberta expressed concerns that it has been three years since the Alberta government released data related to the Family Support for Children with Disabilities (FSCD) or Persons with Developmental Disabilities (PDD) programs, such as how many eligible children and adults have requested but are waiting for supports. With this absence of government data and in response to the growing number of individuals and families contacting us who are unable to secure the supports they require, Inclusion Alberta launched a survey in the fall of 2024 to hear their experiences.
Report: Current State: Critical & Urgent - Experiences with Persons with Developmental Disabilities (PDD)
This report from Inclusion Alberta (January 2025) presents the findings of a survey on experiences with the Persons with Developmental Disabilities (PDD) program.
Report: Too Little, Too Late - Experiences with Family Support for Children with Disabilities (FSCD)
This report from Inclusion Alberta (January 2025) presents survey research on experiences with the Family Supports for Children with Disabilities (FSCD) program.
The Nonprofit Chamber 2025 State of the Sector Report
The Nonprofit Chamber’s 2025 State of the Sector Report provide a comprehensive, evidence-informed snapshot of the challenges, and emerging priorities of Alberta’s nonprofit and charitable sector. The report’s purpose is to equip sector leaders, funders, policymakers, and community partners with reliable data and insights that can guide decision-making, strengthen advocacy efforts, and support long-term planning.
ALIGN is a Proud Partner in Strengthening Safety Across Alberta’s Child Intervention Sector
Alberta’s government is partnering with ALIGN Association of Community Services and the Continuing Care Safety Association to establish occupational health and safety programs for child intervention agencies providing facility-based care, enhanced workplace safety through trauma-informed and responsive safety practices, regulatory compliance education and other critical safety measures.
