Community Resources

Resources

For Families

Alberta Childcare Subsidy

Block and Loose Parts Area

Eligible families, based on their family income, can apply for childcare subsidies if they have a child enrolled in a licensed facility-based program

Childcare Lookup Tool: Licensed or Unlicensed

Science & Nature Area

Alberta has two types of child care: licensed and unlicensed. This weblink from the government of Alberta provides families with a list of childcare regulated by the government and those not.

Active for life

Dramatic Play Areas

Educators and families with children will find fun activities, engaging articles, and free resources to get kids active, healthy, and happy.

The Alberta Family Wellness

School Readiness

The AFWI mobilizes knowledge about early brain development and its connection to lifelong physical and mental health. We form the bridge between the latest scientific knowledge about brain development and what is actually done in policy and practice.

Health Link

Complimentary

Convention on the Rights of the Child

Optional

The Convention on the Rights of the Child explains who children are, all their rights, and the responsibilities of governments.

Institute of Child Psychology

Institute of Child Psychology

The Institute of Child Psychology was created by a shared passion to empower parents and caregivers to help children lead emotionally healthy lives.

Online Parenting Education

Writing & Art Area

Online parenting for parents of toddlers to teens. Online Parenting Course for Parents of Toddlers to Teens ⎸Positive Parenting Solutions

Canadian Child Care Federation

Complimentary

Canadian Child Care Federation The Canadian Child Care Federation believes that high-quality child care is everyone's responsibility and makes for a better Canada. Well-educated childcare professionals are motivated to deliver quality early learning and child care with passion.

FLIGHT: Alberta's Early Learning and Framework

Optional

Flight is a curriculum framework intended to guide the significant work of early learning and child care educators with young children (ages 0 – before six years) and their families in centre-based child care and family day home settings. This is a flexible framework for thinking about how children learn and experience their worlds and a guide that fosters strong early childhood communities.

Calgary Immigrant Women’s Association

Institute of Child Psychology

CIWA supports immigrant and refugee women, girls and their families. They have over 50 programs that can support you with settlement needs, language and employment training, family matters, and more.

The Association of Early Childhood Educators of Alberta

Writing & Art Area

AECEA wants to see early childhood educators empowered to deliver high-quality services, and given the supports to do so, for children ages 0-12 in Alberta. AECEA advocates on members’ behalf to ensure the ECE workforce is a priority in all decisions related to early learning and care, including system building, funding, education, ongoing professional learning, wages, and supports.