OUR SERVICES
Hinton Aboriginal Head Start Program
The Hinton Aboriginal Head Start Program is a program of the Hinton Friendship Centre Society, funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada. It is designed for Indigenous children 3 to 5 years old.
Our Mission:
Our Aboriginal Head Start program aims to provide children and their families opportunities to increase their knowledge, pride, and connection to their indigenous heritage. To give vulnerable children and their families opportunities and support to live a healthy lifestyle. To promote the development of the whole child through an integrated curriculum that is child-centred, play-based, and culturally enriched, recognizing and building upon each child’s uniqueness, level of development, and learning needs and interests.
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Promotes positive parent-child relationships and improves parenting knowledge and skills. Foster healthy child development, and help families access the network of informal and formal services and support available in their own communities. Promote family wellness and help build strong communities. Program intake can start prenatally, and Family Home Visitor continues to work with the family until the child is five years of age.
Covering Grande Cache and Hinton
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Hinton:
Grande Cache:
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We are working with families with children. Provide encouragement, support, and guidance to alleviate problems on a day-to-day basis. Provide information and assistance to families regarding access to appropriate community resources. Establish a networking system with other agencies to improve services for clients. Prevent, reduce, or eliminate behaviours that may place a child, family, or community at risk.
Contact
Tammy Porsnuk RSW
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We serve youth that attends by listening to their needs and program ideas. We have an active youth council and life skills programming. We offer workshops and training opportunities for the youth as they grow older. We know it’s in our best interest to keep the youth connected with the Friendship Centre movement by offering valuable opportunities.
We make traditional opportunities a priority and follow the teachings of the Medicine Wheel by using it as our template for programming, encompassing Mental, Emotional, Physical and Spiritual components. We offer land-based and cultural opportunities when available.
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The Indigenous Language and Culture Program (ILC) is a partnership program that delivers Indigenous language classes to students at Crescent Valley School. ILC is federally funded by Heritage Canada and promotes the representation of local Indigenous languages and cultures to elementary students at Crescent Valley School.
The program teaches the Plains Cree (Y dialect), Saulteaux, and Michif language and culture to the junior elementary students at Crescent Valley School. Some of the topics covered by our program include local history, customs, animals, artists, traditional food, and ceremonies. ILC student grade ranges from kindergarten to grade 3, and we provide this unique learning opportunity to approximately 160 students. Every student receives 30 minutes of daily instruction on Indigenous Language and Culture.
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Participants in the program receive traditional and spiritual teachings from elders, cultural support providers, therapists, and the community. The program’s Resolution Health Support Workers (RHSW) provide emotional support, and the Cultural Support Providers (CSP) help with the cultural support.
The program also assists residential and day school survivors:
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With their participation in Truth and Reconciliation Commission events and Commemoration activities.
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With the Indian Day School Settlements.
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Support at Community Events
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Family members of the MMIW, missing and murdered indigenous women, including girls, boys and men, also receive support from the TIHSP workers.
Mamowichihitowin Wellness Program is a treatment service that provides clinical therapy to families and individuals that are experiencing the effects of familial violence (sexual, physical, mental, and emotional). Violence has no boundaries; it affects all social, economic, religious, racial and cultural backgrounds. It affects all realms of the medicine wheel, the physical emotional, psychological, and spiritual. It is traumatic not only for the victim but also for the entire immediate and extended family system, the community and society as a whole. Recent research has indicated that familial violence particularly sexual abuse is the most damaging form of domestic violence. Yet, with specialized long-term services, sexual abuse and other forms of trauma can be transformed and healed.
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Karlana Noel M.A. Couns Psyc., R.C.T., R.C.C., CYCC, Q.Med., Counselling Therapist
Doctor of Psychology (Student)
Mamowichihitowin Therapist
Program Manager
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For individuals and families experiencing domestic violence and the trauma related. Group and individual therapy, depending on needs of client and client readiness to participate in a group therapy setting. Assessments done on case by case basis.
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Contact
Matthew Cairns-PFVT Clinical Therapist
Karlana Noel-Program Manager
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Our program develops and delivers sexual assault services and supports in West Central: Grande Cache Hinton, Edson, Jasper and Yellowhead County. The collaborative model will There are seven core areas to sexual assault services in Alberta: crisis intervention, counselling, police and court support, education, outreach, volunteer engagement, coordination and collaboration.
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Contact
Candace Pambrun
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