Alberta Network for Safe and Healthy Children
This is a provincial network consisting of stakeholders from a variety of sectors and disciplines including health, social work, enforcement, childcare, and high-risk community outreach.
Our goal is to provide a structure that can lead to increased support for families and communities to ensure that children in Alberta grow up healthy and free from abuse or neglect. We want to honour the fact that most people do the best job they can as parents but sometimes feel as though they lack enough experience, support, information, or patience.
Priorities include:
- Developing or identifying materials that help parents understand and respond to their child’s needs.
- To encourage parents to take good care of themselves. Parents sometimes feel it is selfish to take time away from their child to relax or have fun. The reality is, if Mom and Dad are exhausted and stressed it is even harder for them to parent in a positive and healthy way.
Please go to Projects to learn more about our current work.
We hope you will check back to the site often and connect to our Community Calendar to see upcoming conferences and events for parents and professionals.
If you have an interest in this initiative please contact the Provincial Coordinator.
Susan Patenaude
Provincial Coordinator
Alberta Network for Safe and Healthy Children
Stollery Children's Hospital
1C4.24 8440-112 Street
Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2B7
C - 780-966-7880
F - 780-407-1239
susan.patenaude@albertahealthservices.ca