Resources & Updates
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.
March is National Social Work Month in Canada
National Social Work Month each March and Social Work Week in Alberta, celebrated from March 2 to 8, 2026. ALIGN proudly acknowledges and celebrates the invaluable contributions of social workers across Alberta!
ALIGN CONNECTIONS For Indigenous Children/Youth & Caregivers February 2026
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.
National Volunteer Week Enhancement Fund Applications
The deadline is March 23, 2026. Apply now for funding to support your organization’s National Volunteer Week (April 19–25, 2026) celebrations.
Join Us! ALIGN Regional Chapter Meetings
We invite all ALIGN Association to participate in Regional Chapter Meetings. ALIGN chapter meetings serve as a vital platform for collaboration, learning, advocacy, and enhancing the effectiveness of non-profit and charitable agencies. We are stronger together!
ALIGN's OHS Community of Practice (CoP)
Next meeting April 14, 2026. Communities of Practice often focus on sharing best practices and creating new knowledge to advance a domain of professional practice. Interaction on an ongoing basis is an important part of this.
ALIGN's Well-Being in Child and Family Services Toolkit
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.
ALIGN’s Well-Being Toolkit Community of Practice (CoP)
Next meeting is April 8, 2026. The Well-Being Community of Practice (CoP) is intended for service providers who are currently implementing ALIGN Association's Well-Being Toolkit. A Community of Practice (CoP) is an informal learning space where like-minded practitioners come together to share experiences, challenges, tools, and promising practices. The Well-Being Community of Practice focuses on strengthening the impact of child- and family-serving organizations on child and youth well-being.
ALIGN'S Reconciliation Action Planning Consultation Service
ALIGN’s Reconciliation Action Planning Consultation Service provides Community Service Providers with tailored resources fostering meaningful engagement and support for reconciliation efforts within your organization and community.
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.
ICYMI: Building Data Infrastructure Needed to Prevent Youth Homelessness in Canada: Learnings from BC and Calgary
What would youth homelessness prevention look like if reliable data moved across systems to inform action? The Prevention Matters! panel explored how collaborative data use across systems can strengthen policy, research, and coordinated approaches to youth homelessness prevention in Canada
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.
The Nonprofit’s Guide to Using AI Responsibly in the Boardroom (Tech for Good)
AI is poised to reshape how nonprofit leaders prepare, collaborate, and make decisions. This guide from Tech for Good is designed to help nonprofit boards navigate this transformation responsibly.
Bridging the distance: feeling connected when apart (Canadian Consortium on Child & Youth Trauma)
Includes strategies that have proven effective in helping to strengthen the parent-child relationship in preparation for and during separation.
OY Works Online Toolkit Helps Employers Recruit Young People Ages 18 - 29
This new one-stop online toolkit from OY Works, helps employers recruit, onboard, mentor, and retain Opportunity Youth (OY), young people 18-29 years old not currently in school, training or work and who face barriers to employment.
MHRC Report: Mental Health Pulse Check 2025
As leaders focus on strengthening Canada’s economy, this report created in partnership with GreenShield, highlighting mental health insights from 2025 and identifying critical areas of focus for 2026. reinforceing the direct link between healthy Canadians, a resilient workforce, and long-term prosperity.
Balancing Uncertainty and Resilience: New Data on Sector Priorities and Pressures in 2026
Charity Insights Canada Project explore the priorities, outlook, and pressures shaping Canada’s charitable sector in 2026.
The Governance of Homeless Encampments in Canada
This paper outlines the legislative context of municipal encampment governance in Canada and examines key court decisions shaping how encampments are managed and critiques traditional responses such as removals, identifies barriers to improving strategies, and shows how rights-based approaches can lead to more dignified and efficient responses.
Do Homelessness Reporting Systems that Combine AI and Policing Produce Care or Criminalization?
The blog How Reporting Systems Create Tendencies Towards Care or Criminalization from Homeless Hub, examines a new AI-powered homelessness phone line being tested in Sarnia, Ontario, and questions whether a dual-purpose system run through the police can truly prioritize care.
Data Collection in Homeless Services (Homeless Learning Hub)
FREE, online, self-paced training designed specifically for people working in the homelessness sector. Enhancing data literacy and data collection skills for the homelessness sector
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.
ALIGN CONNECTIONS For Indigenous Children/Youth & Caregivers December 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.
Network & Know: Member Spotlight CARF Canada
Our Network & Know: Member Spotlight series introduces organizations you’ll want to know—not just for who they are, but for how they can support, collaborate, and grow with you. It’s all about building stronger relationships, sharing valuable resources, and celebrating the people who help make ALIGN thrive.
Statistics Canada Study: The diverse volunteering contributions of racialized Canadians
This Statistics Canada study (Dec. 2025) highlights the significant role racialized Canadians play in volunteering, with 70% contributing their time or skills in 2023.
Online Indigenous Advent Calendar
Updated annually, this online advent calendar is great fun for kids and anyone wanting to learn more about First Nations, Metis or Inuit culture
Child and Youth Care Interviewing and Counselling: Skills for the Other 23 Hours (CYCAA)
The CYCAA Child and Youth Care Interviewing and Counselling is a practical text designed to help students learn essential interviewing and counselling skills through a practical action-oriented approach and scenarios situated in common professional CYC settings such as group homes, treatment centres, or outreach services.
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.
Caring for Foster Kids During the Holidays: Bringing Joy and Stability to Their Lives
As a caregiver, fostering a sense of joy, comfort, and security during the holidays can make a world of difference.
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.
Build Canada Homes and the Outlook for Housing Programs under Budget 2025
The The Parliamentary Budget Officer 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.
Online Tools to Improve Your WCB Premiums
The best way to impact the premiums you pay is by implementing health and safety programs that prevent your workers from getting injured and disability management programs to help your injured workers return to work. Explore WCB resources that assist you to improve your WCB premiums.
National Volunteer Action Strategy
Volunteer Canada is developing a National Volunteer Action Strategy which will aim to revitalize volunteerism in the face of urgent challenges such as Canada’s aging population, the climate crisis and the cost-of-living crisis. They have published a number of update reports about what they’re hearing as they engage the sector, conduct research and share knowledge.
Podcast: Futureproofing the Nonprofit Workforce: Building Digital Skills for Resilience
In this special episode of Let's Imagine Podcast EPISODE 36: guest host Wilfreda Edward, Executive Director of the Canadian Centre for Nonprofit Digital Resilience (CCNDR), explores how nonprofits across Canada are working to close the digital skills gap.
