Resources
Alberta.ca OHS Resource Portal Updates April 2025
See the latest additions and revisions to the OHS Resource Portal!
Podcast: Navigating Political and Economic Upheaval: Advice from Nonprofits on the Frontline (CharityVillage Connects)
In this episode of CharityVillage Connects, representatives from frontline organizations share their realities, concerns, and strategies for survival and transformation in these challenging times.
ALIGN's OHS Survey Open Now - Have Your Say!
Please take a moment to fill out this quick survey to help ALIGN learn about the progress of occupational health and safety (OHS) within sector agencies.
People First a Portrait of Canada's Nonprofit Data and Trends April 2025
Imagine Canada Report April 2025. Recently updated data released by Statistics Canada provide key insights into the size and key characteristics of the nonprofit workforce and how it compares to the total Canadian workforce
2025 Canadian Nonprofit Sector Salary & Benefits Survey Deadline April 11th
Take the 2025 Canadian Nonprofit Sector Salary & Benefits Survey and receive 50% off the 2025 report!
Alberta.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
Omnibus Survey: The Impact of Economic and Political Strain on Canadians’ Mental Health
Amidst economic and political uncertainty, new data reveals nearly half of Canadians are experiencing heightened anxiety, with tariffs quickly emerging as one of the main reasons. This one-time survey uncovers critical trends and gaps in care for Canadians as political and economic tension escalates.
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 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.
CCSA Safety Talk: "Recognition & Reward"
2025 Safety Talks Focus: the National Standard for Psychological Safety in the Workplaces, covering the 13 factors plus two healthcare-specific ones
Charity Insights Canada Project New Data on Charity Perspectives on EDI in Canada March 2025
Charity Insights Canada Project examines how Canadian charities are approaching equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in 2025.
Join Us! ALIGN's Spring Membership Meeting May 30th (ZOOM)
Join us May 30th on ZOOM! This is an excellent opportunity to hear exciting updates on ALIGN Activities, including OHS and Well-Being—plus a special presentation from the Centre for Autism Services Alberta. Don’t miss this chance to connect, learn, and be inspired!
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.
Protecting Young, New and Inexperienced Workers
This initiative developed through a creative sentencing project in partnership with the Government of Alberta, young worker advocacy groups, and industry stakeholders, is dedicated to protecting young, new, and inexperienced workers.
Government of Canada Announces Continued Funding for Jordan’s Principle March 22, 2025
Ottawa, Ontario (March 22, 2025) — The Minister of Indigenous Services, Patty Hajdu, issued the following statement
CoRe White Paper Effective and Compassionate Intervention: Civil Commitment for Individuals with Severe Addiction in Alberta
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.
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.
ALIGN's OHS Community of Practice Virtual April 22, 2025 Join Us!
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.
Volunteer Week 2025 (April 27 - May 3) & Volunteer Award Nominations
During National Volunteer Week 2025, we recognize and celebrate all the ways volunteers make waves from coast to coast to coast. Together we create ripples of change. And through the power of our amplified impact, Volunteers Make Waves.
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.
ALIGN OHS Leadership Awareness Series Online Training
Learn more about OHS duties, best practices, legislation, prevention plans and more with these seven online modules from ALIGN!
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.
An Introduction to Decolonizing Indigenous Research
A Way Home Canada, Canadian Observatory on Homelessness & Making the Shift Youth Homelessness Social Innovation Lab
Yes, It Works: How Housing First for Youth Transforms Lives (Prevention Matters Episode 9)
The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness and their partners, A Way Home Canada and Making the Shift, unpack evidence-based* insights on Housing First for Youth, its benefits and what our research has taught us about what it takes to prevent youth homelessness.
Playing by the Rules Election Guidelines for Charities and Nonprofits (Imagine Canada)
Imagine Canada's summary of election rules for charities and nonprofits breaks down what organizations need to know about election activities, lobbying regulations, and staying nonpartisan.
Alberta.ca Open Data Emergency Shelters Daily Occupancy Updated March 2025
This collection of datasets provided by Seniors, Community and Social Services (SCSS)
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.
Inclusion Alberta Response to 2025 Alberta Budget
Budget 2025 leaves 1000’s of children and adults with intellectual disabilities and their families in crisis
fACT Sheet: 2025 Alberta Provincial Budget (ESPC)
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.
MHRC Poll 23 Understanding the Mental Health of Canadians
This study was conducted by Pollara Strategic Insights with an online sample of 4,050 adult Canadians between February 4 and 19, 2025
Bill 37: Alberta.ca Amendments to the Mental Health Services Protection Act (MHSPA) February 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
PolicyWise Creating a Roadmap to Prevent Youth Homelessness February 2025
This roadmap seeks to create information that brings light to effective prevention strategies through research and evaluation
