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...
Aspen's Youth Matters and Youth Works teams are used to working with a variety of youth who are always exploring new interests! They have create a list of 15 unique resources and activities for youth who are practicing 'Physical Distancing'...
In these uncertain and unprecedented times, there is a lot to think about; so much so that it can be hard to focus, prioritize and think straight. We are thinking about our families, our coworkers, the people we support and people we don’t ...
On Tuesday, October 29 the Aspen Youth Portfolio hosted a Youth Advisory Forum, with the goal of gaining knowledge from youth experiences to help guide the development of Aspen's new group home!
It takes a village to raise a child and a community to host an Art Night! The idea started when Aspen Staff began to question: What does a trauma informed space look like and how can we create this kind of space for our new group home? Duri...