We know that all children can succeed, given the right supports and opportunities. Our success coaches, mental health therapists, and roots and wings family support workers can provide resources for success at local schools.
Resources at schools
We know that all children can succeed, given the right supports and opportunities. For a variety of reasons, students and their families experience challenges that interfere with academic success and a positive experience at school.
We have partnered with over 80 schools in Edmonton to ensure students, their families, and the school employees receive supports to:
Improve classroom behaviours by addressing underlying issues
Provide tools and techniques for teachers and families to keep children in school and to understand children who have gone through trauma
Foster a positive school experience, and build confidence and skills for academic success
Support children to attend school more regularly, achieve higher results, avoid high-risk behaviours, make effective decisions and goals, and see a positive future for themselves
Engage families in participating in their child’s learning, the school environment, and family activities
Guide children and youth to make positive decisions using role models, mentors, advocates, and affordable community supports
Reduce the stigma and other barriers to therapeutic supports
Success coaches support students to boost their resilience and develop healthy strategies to cope with challenges and overcome barriers to be successful in school and life.
Roots and Wings provides in-home support to families. We work together with families to ensure their needs are front and centre, resulting in meaningful solutions based on their unique lives.
The Family Centre is a part of All in for Youth, a local initiative focused on getting children and youth successfully through their education years and on to high school completion.
The Family Centre acknowledges that we are on Treaty 6 territory, a traditional meeting ground, gathering place, and traveling route for the Cree, Saulteaux, Blackfoot, Métis, Dene, and Nakota Sioux. We acknowledge all the many First Nations, Métis, and Inuit whose footsteps have marked these lands for centuries.
