Carstairs FCSS & Community Resources

Family and Community Support Services Office
Open Monday  - Friday 8:30 a.m.  - 4:00 p.m.
315 10th Avenue,  Carstairs, AB, Box 370
Office: 403-940-3327

What is Family and Community Support Services (FCSS)?

Family and Community Support Services (FCSS) is a unique 80/20 funding partnership between the province and the municipalities, including Mountain View County. Under FCSS, communities design and deliver social programs that are preventive in nature to promote and enhance well-being among individuals, families, and communities. The programs depend on community resources, often involving volunteers in management and delivery.
Types of services eligible for funding:

  • Services that promote the social development of children and their families;
  • Services that enrich and strengthen family life by developing skills so people can function more effectively within their own environment;
  • Services that enhance the quality of life of the retired and semi-retired;
  • Services to promote, encourage and support volunteer work in the community;
  • Services to assist communities to identify their social needs and develop responses to meet those needs;
  • Services to inform the public of available services.

Types of services that may not be eligible for funding:

Services provided under a program must not:

  • provide primarily for the recreational needs or leisure time pursuits of individuals;
  • offer direct assistance, including money, food, clothing or shelter, to sustain an individual or family;
  • be primarily rehabilitative in nature; nor duplicate services that are ordinarily provided by a government or government agency.

FCSS

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FCSS is provincial and municipal partnership committed to designing and delivering social programs that are preventative in nature to promote well-being among individuals, families, and community.  All programs and services aim to affirm and strengthen community capacity by modeling the principles of family support (FRfP Canada*) in all activities including planning, governance and administration.  *Carstairs FCSS is a member of FRP: Family Resource Programs of Canada.  Carstairs FCSS funds and partners with local organizations to provide programs and services that are flexible and responsive to emerging family and community needs.   Some of them are:

 Child & Youth

 Adults & Families

 Seniors

 Community
  •  Family School Wellness
  • Rainbows Grief & Loss Program for Children
  • Get Real Program
  • Healthy Families Home Visitation Program
  • Parent Link Centre
  • Family Day Unplugged
  • Health and Happiness Program
  • Leadership Camp
  • Boys and Girls Club
  • Home Alone Safely
  • Sunbeam
  • SWAT
  • Suicide Prevention
  • Antyssey

 
  • Sensible Cooking Program
  • Carstairs Library Parenting Fair
  • Healthy Conflict
  • Applications for Subsidized Housing
  • Mountain View Community Family Literacy
  • Referral for Addictions/Mental Health/Grief/
    Individual and Family Conselling
  • Reflections
  • Parent Link Centre
  • Chinook Arch Victims Services

 

 

 

 

 
  •  Seniors Benefits
  • Alberta Seniors Benefits
  • Guaranteed Income Supplement
  • Disability
    Income Tax Certificate
  • Home adaption for Senior's Independence
  • Housekeeper
  • Snow Angels
  • Yard Care Registry
  • Meals on Wheels
  • Volunteer Driving
  • Home Support
  • Memory Plus Program
  • Senior's Week

 

 
  •  Community Volunteer Income Tax  Program (CVITP)
  • Carstairs Interagency
  • Intergenerational Program
  • Neighborhood Party
  • Carstairs Connections
  • Vision for non - Violence
  • Neighbourhood Party
  • Lions Xmas Hamper Program
  • Mountain View Food Bank
  • Volunteer Recognition

 

 

 

 

 

 

Access to Food

Click below to find a listing of local organizations that are
able to helpprovide solutions finding food sources.

ACCESS TO FOOD 

Click below to find the Meals on wheels registration form.
For more information contact: 403-337-3341

MEALS ON WHEELS

Current FCSS Programs

YOUTH PROGRAM INFORMATION

JUMP START PROGRAM INFORMATION

JUMPSTART PROGRAM APPLICATION

IODE YOUTH PROGRAM FUNDING INFORMATION

IODE YOUTH PROGRAM FUNDING APPLICATION

2017 FCSS Community Grant Program

Carstairs FCSS provides annual grant opportunities for preventative social programming to non-profit groups working in the Town of Carstairs.  These groups must meet the eligibility criteria set out by the FCSS Mandate.  Grant applications are now available for 2016 applicants (link).   Deadline for 2017 Grants is November 18, 2016.

    Grant Application Link:  2018 Funding Information coming Fall 2017