Kids Up Front is one of our cornerstones …
There would be a whole piece that would not be happening –
the hope, the possibilities, the normalizing — would not happen.
For our kids, its about belonging — you belong in the community, and are part of it.
–Agency Representative
Kids Up Front collaborates with a broad network of partner agencies that provide child and family services in the education, health and social service sectors. Kids Up Front (Edmonton) does not charge a fee for service, instead we recognize the tremendous effort our agency partners make by coordinating appropriate supervision and other logistics that enable children, youth and families to participate in Kids Up Front experiences. All agency partners are required to sign a formal Kids Up Front agency agreement.
Are you involved with a program that helps kids and families in the Edmonton Capital Region? Wish to register with Kids Up Front? Please contact us info@kidsupfrontedmonton.com
Kids Up Front Agency Partners
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
AADAC
Abbotsfield Youth Project
Abbott/RJ Scott School
Aboriginal Youth and Family Wellbeing – Education Society
AYFWES delivers a Stay-in-School program for Aboriginal junior high students. By providing tutoring, cultural & recreational activities, as well as personal development workshops. By doing this, we are creating opportunities for our youth to fulfill their hopes & dreams.
Acaxual Youth Group
Acaxual Youth Group was started by Acaxual Housing Coop. We represent eight different nationalities, most of them and their families come to Canada as Refugees.
Action for Healthy Communties Society
Alberta Adaptabilities
Alberta Future Leaders
Apollo Out of School Care
Assist Community Services Centre
ABC Head Start
ABC Head Start works with low income families and their preschool children, offering unique opportunities for both the children and their families to learn and grow. Services include a free preschool program and parent programming and support. www.abcheadstart.org
A Safe Place
Strathcona Shelter Society Ltd. “A Safe Place” Emergency Shelter for abused women and their children, for more information visit www.asafeplace.ca
Bashaw Youth Foundation
Beaver Youth Support
Ben Calf Robe Society/St. Clare School
Bent Arrow Traditional Healing Society
Beverly Daycare Society
Big Brothers Big Sisters
Bissell Centre
Bosco Homes
Boyle St. Co-op
Boyle Street Community Services is a multi-service community center that assists people of all ages who have been marginalized by poverty and racism. Boyle Street has grown from its origins as an inner city outreach unit, the Boyle St. Co-op, into a community centre that is accessed by people living in poverty throughout the City of Edmonton. Boyle Street has a 36-year reputation for helping people who are disadvantaged to manage the multiple problems they face. It is well respected by the aboriginal community for providing accessible and culturally relevant services. Boyle Street is committed to a community-based approach that builds on people’s capacities and strengthens communities.
Boys & Girls Club of Clearwater
Boys & Girls Club of Leduc
The Boys and Girls Club of Leduc provides a safe, supportive place where children and youth can experience new opportunities, overcome barriers, build positive relationships and develop confidence and skills for life. www.leducboysandgirls.com or check them out on facebook http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/Boys-and-Girls-Club-of-Leduc/45794886887?ref=ts
Boys & Girls Club of Strathcona County
Boys & Girls Club of Wetaskiwin
Boys & Girls Clubs of Edmonton
Brightwood Ranch
Brightwood Ranch is a summer youth camp for underprivileged youth. Camps run for a week in the summer and have a minimal cost. www.wearehymn.com
Brittany Lane Housing Co-op
Campbell College
Camrose Association for Community Living
Canadian Burn Foundation
Catholic Social Services
Catholic Social Services is a non-profit organization that serves children and youth and families, from various different disabilities, from drug abuse, to cognitive disabilities to physical disabilities and so much more. Our children and youth and their families enjoy community events and various activities and are happy to be a part of Kids up from and how they enrich the lives of the agency they serve. http://www.catholicsocialservices.ab.ca
Canadian Mental Health Association – Edmonton Region
Canadian Native Friendship Centre
Candora Society
CASA House
Cerebral Palsy Association in Alberta
CHAMP Team
Child & Family Services (Spruce Grove)
Child & Family Services, Region 6, High Risk Youth Unit
Children First Family Services
Children First Family Services is a non-for-profit human service agency providing a safe, temporary out of home placement for children temporarily unable to live with their family of origin. We recruit, train and provide support to foster parents. Our services to Edmonton and Area (since 1980) are provided in accordance with following standards: Canadian Accreditation Council of Human Services, The Code of Ethics of the Alberta College of Social Workers and The Code of Ethics of the Alberta Foster Parent Association. www.childrenfirstfs.org
Children’s Heart Society
The Children’s Heart Society is a non-profit, charitable organization that supports the families of children affected by Congenital and Acquired Heart Disease. Our goals are to improve the quality of life for children affected by CHD, ensure the best possible care of children suffering from heart disease, to encourage the public to take this disease to heart and to strive for the day when no child will die from heart disease. http://www.childrensheart.org
Chimo Youth Retreat Centre
Chimo Youth Retreat is an agency that has community-based programming (which includes SOLO, SWS and LMT) for children 15- 22 years of age; T-SIL homes which provide training of life skills to prepare them for the community-based programs, the Healing Home which is an addictions recovery program and AYS which provides home care and a stable living environment for youth living outside of Edmonton and who are accessing the intensive youth ADDAC treatment services. www.chimoyouthretreat.ab.ca
Clairview Headstart
Counterpoint House
Creating Hope Society
Cross Roads Residential Youth Care
Cross Roads provides care for children both male and females who have been taken away from the parents. Cross Roads Residential Youth Care was created for youth 10-18 years of age who comes from dysfunctional home. During their stay here they attend school, take special programs pending on their needs such as Life Skills, Anger management, and Drug and Alcohol program. Because of programs such as ours, hundreds of children have successfully gained a healthy life, in a safe setting. Here in the home we provide them with their basic physical needs, as well as mental, spiritual, and cultural. As we attempt to create a “home/family” setting for these children, we come short of resources as we are a non-profit organization and we really are thankful for Kids Up Front and all your assistance to our program!
DECSA
Delton School
Dickensfield Amity House
E4C
Eastwood School
Edmonton Academy Society for Learning Disabled
Edmonton Garrison
Edmonton Immigrant Services Association (EISA)
Edmonton Mennonite Centre for Newcomers
Edmonton School District #7 Jasper Place High Scool
Excel Society
EYC
Family Law Office
Fulton Afterschool Care
FunTeam Alberta
FunTeam Alberta is a non-profit recreational sport organization. Our objective is to assist individuals and families participate in less competitive, and low cost sporting activities of their choice.
General & Construction Workers Union Local 92 (Families in Need)
Gift Lake Communnity Services
Glengarry Childcare Society
Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation
The Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation is the largest freestanding rehabilitation centre in North America. Services are offered to children and adults on an inpatient, outpatient, and day patient basis. The Hospital has a 10 bed inpatient paediatric rehabiltiation unit and 26 paediatric psychiatry beds. Link
Good Samaritan Society
Gordon Russell’s Crystal Kids Youth Centre
Crystal Kids is an integrated community support centre focused on building resilience, providing opportunities, and encouraging life-long learning through its partnerships and programs. All services are provided at no cost to individuals or families. http://crystalkids.org/
Heartland Youth Centre
The Heartland Youth Center is home to the Boys and Girls Club and Big Brothers Big Sisters program in Stettler. The Youth Center aims to develop and nurture the life skills of youth through community based programming with the support of families and volunteers. www.bigbrothersbigsisters.ca/stettler
iHuman
Inner City Children’s Project
Inner City Youth Housing Project
KARA Family Resource Centre
KARA Family Resource Centre “Kids Are the Responsibility of All” Promoting healthy development of children by empowering families. www.kara-frc.ca
Kids Care United
Every time [Tema Frank] hears about a child who has been abused or neglected [she] gets angry. Not at the social workers, but at our society that won’t spend enough on proper child care and supervision. Surely investing more in ensuring that children from not-so-great backgrounds are helped and encouraged to succeed will save us all money in the long-term: savings on welfare costs, lower crime, higher productive employment, etc. The goal of Tema’s blog is to help make that case, and to bring people together to work on improving futures for our children. http://kidscareunited.org
Kids Kottage
Kids with Cancer
Kids with Cancer provides programs and services to children with cancer and their families. Our mission is to identify and meet the needs of children with cancer and their families from the time of diagnosis throughout treatment and beyond, through support, clinical programs and research. www.kidswithcancer.ca
La Salle Women’s Housing Society of Alberta
Learning Disability Association – Edmonton Chapter
McMan Youth & Family
Since 1979, McMan has been providing quality care and services to children, youth and families in communities throughout Alberta. We are a responsive, regionally-based and locally-guided organization, one that initiates, delivers, and sustains the services and programs each community needs. http://www.mcman.ca/
Metis Child & Family Services
Mill Woods Family Resource Centre
Muscular Dystrophy Canada
Native Counselling Services
Neighourhood Empowerment Team (NET)
As a special project of Edmonton Police Service, N.E.T. teams are championed as a means of applying non-traditional policing response to very common and recurrent community issues. N.E.T. combines the skill, expertise and perspectives of traditional law enforcement practices with innovative community development strategies. Assigned to “at-risk” communities, as determined by escalating crime statistics, N.E.T. teams stabilize environments; reducing and preventing crime and fear of crime. Link
Northeast Teen Drop-in Centre
Norwood Child & Family Resource Centre
Northern Alberta Alliance on Race Relations
Oak Hill Boys Ranch
Old Strathcona Youth Society
Oliver Early Learning Programs for Children and Families Society
Parkdale After School Care Society
Parkdale After School Care Society provides accessible, high quality, not for profit child care in a positive & nurturing environment.
Parkdale School
Partners for Kids & Youth
Pathways Day Program
Prince Charles School
Robin Hood Association
Rocky Youth Development Society
Ronald McDonald House
Roots & Wings
Rundle School
STAR Program
School of Hope
Sidekicks Mentoring
Sir John Thompson
Skills
Skills provides supportive environments for people with disabilities. We have a shared vision of a lifetime of participation, contribution and connection in the community. Our idea of community is one where all individuals are valued citizens deserving respect, dignity and rights. http://www.skillsedm.com/
Spirit Keeper Youth Society
Spirit Keeper Youth Society is a non-profit organization which provides a wide variety of programs and services to high risk Aboriginal Youth and the Aboriginal Community. www.spiritkeeper.ca
Spirit of Youth Homes Inc
St. Alphonsus School
St. Bernadette School
St. Jerome School
St. Albert Youth Community Centre
Stars Air Ambulance
Stollery Children’s Hospital
Terra – Centre for Pregnant & Parenting Teens
Terra-Centre for Pregnant and Parenting Teens has been serving youth in Edmonton since 1971. A wide range of support programs and services are offered for teen moms, young dads and their children. Our mission is: Empowering teen parents to succeed. www.terraassociation.com
The Family Centre
The Family Centre is a non for profit agency within Edmonton that provides a variety of services aimed at building healthy families and communities. www.the-family-centre.com
The Rainbow Society of Alberta
Granting wishes since 1986, for Alberta children with a life-threatening or chronic illness. www.rainbowsociety.ab.ca
The Red Road Healing Society
Transitions Rehabilitation Association
Uncles & Aunts at Large
Unity Centre of NE Edmonton
United Way
Way In
The Way In is a wrap around program to improve health and mental health by building resiliency in students from three junior high schools; Dan Knott, Edith Rogers, TD Baker. Schools act as the gateway for services working together with partners from Alberta Health Services, Child and Family Services, The Family Centre, Big Brothers and Big Sisters, Kids Up Front, EPSB, Mill Woods Family Resource Centre, YMCA, and Edmonton Police Service. The Way In team thanks Alberta Health Services Alberta Mental Health Capacity Building Grants for making much of this possible. http://www.tdbaker.net/wayin
Wetaskiwin Youth for Christ
Wings of Providence
Wings of Providence is a long term housing facility for women and children fleeing family violence. We receive referrals mostly from crisis shelters in Alberta but also outside of province. We have a comprehensive counseling program for both the Moms and the children. We also have support for ex-residents. Most of our clients are on social assistance and below the poverty line. www.wingsofprovidence.ca
Yellowhead Youth Centre
YMCA
YOUCAN
Youth of the Blood Tribe
Youth Emergency Shelter Society
Youth Restorative Action Project (YRAP)
The Youth Restorative Action Project is the world’s only youth run justice committee. YRAP is sanctioned under the Youth Criminal Justice Act to work in youth court with young people who have caused harm as a result of racism or other significant social issues. www.yrap.org
YWCA
