Target Audience: Nurses

Learning Outcomes: 

• Learn the new changes to childhood obesity guidelines
• Understand the 10 recommendations
• Understand the 9 good practices
• Apply guidelines to practice

Target Audience: Anyone

Learning Outcomes: 

• Understand the connection between Indigenous traditional teachings and financial well-being
• Reflect on personal beliefs, values, and attitudes about money
• Explore holistic and culturally sensitive approaches to financial empowerment
• Gain practical tools and insights for aligning financial decisions with personal and cultural values

Target Audience: All First Nations across Alberta, community leaders, child and youth workers, and anyone working in missing children prevention and response

Learning Outcomes: 

• Gain insight into the Child Search Network and how it enhances public awareness, community involvement, and cross-sector collaboration in locating missing children
• Discover how the Child Search Network supports culturally responsive and community-based solutions
• Understand how Rescu functions in the immediate aftermath of a missing person incident
• Discover how families and communities can utilize the app to access and share vital information about a missing child during the critical early stages

Target Audience: First Nation, Metis and Inuit communities, and organizations

Learning Outcomes: 

• Learn about the origins of forced sterilization in Canada
• Find out more about the current realities of forced sterilization in Canada
• Listen to the developments on criminalizing sterilization in Canada and advancing healing opportunities for survivors

Target Audience: Anyone who has experienced the loss of a child or who knows of someone experiencing the loss of a child. Caregivers and professionals may also gain deeper understanding of the impact of child loss.

Learning Outcomes: 

• Explore what grief is and how it might show up uniquely for those out-living their children
• Identify how child loss may complicate grief and change through the years
• Learn how to support those who are grieving a loss
• Find was to incorporate ceremony and mourning practices

Target Audience: Parents who experience guilt and shame; parents who find themselves struggling to parent due to these emotions

Learning Outcomes: 

• Understanding of emotions of guilt and shame
• Understanding of how feelings affect thoughts and behaviours
• Practical strategies for managing and working with these emotions

Target Audience: This webinar is intended for parents of children who have a recent or suspected diagnosis of a developmental, mental health or medical condition. 

Learning Outcomes: 

• Strategies for working with healthcare providers and community supports
• Strategies for communicating your needs and advocating for your family
• Strategies to understand feelings related to the diagnosis

**Please note that this session will not be recorded or uploaded to our website. 

Target Audience: Expecting (including adoption and fostering) and new parents

Learning Outcomes: 

• Understand why the quality of your relationship is important
• Identify ways that your relationship impacts your child’s development
• List reasons why the transition to parenthood can be difficult
• Learn six steps for keeping your relationship strong

Target Audience: Anyone who works supporting individuals and families who may be experiencing violence

Learning Outcomes: 

• An understanding of the gendered nature of violence
• Learn about coercive control and how it affects risk levels for those experiencing violence
• Learn how to support those experiencing violence with a simple strategy intended to reduce isolation and increase safety

Target Audience: The KHP Brighter Days program is designed for Indigenous youth. The target audience includes First Nations, Inuit, and Metis young people aged 6 to 29 years old. However, this session will be targeted for those 16 and up

Learning Outcomes: 

• Help young people understand what mental wellness is
• Help young people understand what self-care is
• Explore the importance of practising self-care
• Provide young people with skills, tools, strategies and resources to help them practise self-care

**Please note that this session will not be recorded or uploaded to our website

Target Audience: Individuals coping with the loss of a loved one, by suicide or other manners of death

Learning Outcomes: 

• Exploring nature of guilt and regret, and why the distinction matters
• Understanding how self-kindness creates an environment for healing and why it’s important for grief work
• How short-term emotional release behaviours redirect emotional energy away from healing
• Healing involves focusing on the relationship with the deceased and exploring undelivered emotional communications that leave survivors without closure

Target Audience: Family members, Community members, and Professionals

Learning Outcomes: 

• Understanding disrupted Indigenous family systems from colonization
• How does domestic abuse affect our Indigenous children
• Reclaiming our holistic ways of parenting and supporting family systems
• How to support Indigenous children that have experienced domestic abuse

Target Audience: Caregivers/people experiencing post partum

Learning Outcomes: 

• Recognize and embrace this range of feelings
• Seek support when needed
• An understanding that these emotions are a natural part of the transformative journey into motherhood

Target Audience: Indigenous women and individuals with cervixes, Two-Spirit individuals, caregivers, and community health workers who support Indigenous health and wellness

Learning Outcomes: 

• Increased awareness of Canada’s Action Plan to eliminate cervical cancer
• Understand what cervical cancer is and how it develops.
• Recognize the importance of regular Pap tests and HPV screening
• Identify barriers to cervical cancer screening and learn ways to overcome them
• Access local and culturally appropriate cervical cancer screening services and support

Target Audience: Survivors of Intergenerational First Nations

Learning Outcomes: 

• How the impacts of Residential Schools affect First Nations people
• How it is important to know who you are as a First Nations
• How colonization affects our people
• Timelines of my journey stories, language, the land and ceremonies

**Please note that this session will not be recorded or uploaded to our website. 

Target Audience: Organizations, staff members, students, volunteers

Learning Outcomes: 

• What services The Family Centre provides
• A brief overview of The Family Centre’s Indigenous Framework
• The story behind creating the Indigenous Framework at The Family Centre

Target Audience: Parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and practitioners working with these children/their families

Learning Outcomes: 

• A deeper understanding of why autistic children often struggle to fall asleep and stay asleep, including common neurological and behavioral factors
• The ability to identify and personalize a calming, consistent bedtime routine that supports their child’s sensory and emotional needs
• Guidance on determining the most appropriate and sustainable sleep schedule for their child’s individual rhythms and family dynamics
• A realistic, step-by-step plan to begin implementing a healthy sleep routine that balances structure with flexibility and sets the stage for long-term success

Target Audience: This session is ideal for those who have been diagnosed with Parkinson disease, have a family member/friend who has Parkinson's; and/or those who would like to know a little more about Parkinson disease.

Learning Outcomes: 

• Increase knowledge and understanding of Parkinson Disease, including symptoms, treatment options, and general information
• Raise awareness of the impact of a diagnosis on the individual as well as the family members and the community
• Learn about the support, programs, and resources available to those diagnosed, family members, and the community members (such as allied health, elder/senior organizations, etc.) offered by Parkinson Association of Alberta

Target Audience: This webinar is intended for parents and caregivers of children 8 to 18 years. Your child may or may not have started their period yet.

Learning Outcomes: 

• How to support your child through the physical and emotional changes related to periods
• Timelines, tracking, common symptoms, and how to plan ahead
• What to watch for and when to get more help for your child

**Please note that this session will not be recorded or uploaded to our website

Target Audience: Community members, frontline health workers, and caregivers supporting pregnant individuals in First Nations communities

Learning Outcomes: 

• Describe what current research tells us about cannabis use during pregnancy and its potential effects on the fetus and infant
• Identify common reasons why people may use cannabis during pregnancy
• Gain a better understanding of how to talk about cannabis use during pregnancy in a respectful, nonjudgmental way, and how to share information that supports informed choices and promotes the health of parents and babies
• Recognize the importance of culturally safe, nonjudgmental conversations around substance use during pregnancy

Target Audience: Anybody, but in particular older adults (age more than 50)

Learning Outcomes: 

• One fracture can increase the risk of future fractures
• All individuals aged > 70 years would likely benefit from a bone density
• Dietary calcium, adequate vitamin D, and healthy exercise should be encouraged for all individuals
• Newer medications can dramatically reduce fracture risk and in some cases "reverse" osteoporosis