BlogIt feels like the news, our social media feeds and even check-ins with friends and families have revolved around the negative, heavy and hard to hear stories of loss for the majority of the past two months. When we find ourselves inundated ...
I never imagined that a dream this big would become a reality. A merger between BGCC and Aspen to form One Big Door through which people can access supports that enable generational change is remarkable.
elcome to the 4th installment of Dr. Seigel’s Healthy Mind Platter; Focus Time. Our brains are wired to crave challenge, so setting tasks or goals each day, or even week, feeds our innate need to feel accomplished. So, how do you continue t...
Over the past seven weeks, the world has changed in ways that can be hard to understand. In a matter of days, everything was put on hold and everyone was ordered inside their homes. It can be hard to find ways to keep yourself entertained a...
Just under a year ago, Rosa was living in a car with her 11-year old daughter and a baby growing in her belly. This was her first time experiencing homelessness and she was worried about finding somewhere stable for her family to call home....
Welcome back to our third blog post on Dr. Dan Siegel's Healthy Mind Platter. Today, we will be focusing on Physical Time. According to Statistics Canada, 84% of Canadian adults are not meeting the daily physical activity recommendations. T...
We are excited to announce that Aspen Family and Community Network and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Calgary have decided to come together and merge our agencies to create a new, unified organization that ensures stronger supports for the young...
Today we are going to take a closer look at sleep time. We are focusing on sleep first because we know that without sleep everything is affected. Even though we know this, one in four Canadians are not getting enough sleep, one in two have ...
Social media can have a life-affirming or troubling influence on our worldviews, as well as our view of ourselves. Social media can create a sense of unity or divisiveness; faith or suspicion; positive or negative judgments; understanding o...
Aspen's In-Home Family Support team has decided to create a blog series based on Dr. Dan Siegel’s “Healthy Mind Platter.” The platter can provide daily structure to those craving it, while remaining extremely flexible for those families who...
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