Milk program calgary

Appointment required, limited to one hamper a month. The Distress Centre Phone: Direct to Tenant Rent Supplement Program Phone: Housing and Urban Affairs offers a subsidy paid directly to an eligible tenant to assist with their rental costs.

Salvation Army Calgary Community Support Services Phone: The Salvation Army provides a Working Families Fund — one adult in a home must be working full-time for at least three months and must have children under 18 years of age living at home.

Inn from the Cold Phone: Inn from the Cold provides housing assistance and affordable housing. Attainable Homes Phone: Attainable Homes works to provide accessible houses for purchase. Brenda Strafford Society Phone: Supports people at risk who have experienced family violence to live safely and successfully.

Provides a safe housing environment and comprehensive support services so that those at risk of domestic violence can live safely in the community upon their departure from the Centre.

City of Calgary Information about affordable housing and programs available for low-income tenants. PEAK Initiative Phone: A home ownership program for employed individuals who are unable to save enough money for a down-payment on their home.

Habitat for Humanity Phone: Builds homes and sells them to families through a no down-payment, no-interest mortgage, with monthly payments customized to their income level.

Check website for eligibility requirements. Best Beginning Phone: Best Beginning is a Calgary Health Region program that provides free information, support and referrals for pregnant women. Milk, vitamins and food are available as well. Made by Momma Provides services for mothers with young children who are affected by short-term or life-changing adversity. Services include providing healthy meals, baby and child items and essentials, in-home support, and other services.

Healthy Parents Healthy Children An online resource for information about pregnancy, newborns, and childcare. Healthy Babies Network Phone: Support for low income women, teens, immigrants, single parents, Aboriginal, Metis and Inuit.

Access to basic baby needs items, such as nutritional supplements to ensure a healthy start for babies. Professional referral required. Alberta Child Health Benefit Phone: ACHB provides premium-free: dental, optical, diabetic and prescription drug coverage, and emergency ambulance to children. Also includes children who are 18 and 19 years old that attend high school and live at home.

Alberta Health Services — Dental Treatment Phone: or Information about dental services available to low-income clients. Calgary Counselling Centre Phone: Provides counselling with no wait list or financial barriers to children, youth, and their families. Includes free virtual therapy video sessions with support from a team of professionals, including psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and family therapists.

The Alex Phone: A community health center for low income people without family doctors. Provides medical care, social supports, pharmacy services, chiropractor and massage therapy, chronic disease nurses, and optometry. The Youth Health Center same location provides supportive service to youth aged , including medical checkups, counselling, STD and pregnancy testing, and prescription drug services.

Many other community services are also available. Superstore One pair of free glasses available once a year, select frames for children aged Please call and confirm that the location you choose to go to provides this service. A list of locations is available here. Indigenous Health and Nutrition Team — Chronic Disease Management Phone: Support for Indigenous adults with weight loss, improving health when living with chronic illnesses such as diabetes, high blood pressure, arthritis, etc.

For more info contact, indigenoushealthprogram ahs. Call your nearest location for more information or visit the link above. Milk Donation and Collection Program. InformAlberta Home. Is this information correct? If not, click here. Provides mothers' milk from donors for medically qualified babies.

Service offers: help for milk donors with information and advice about donating testing and screening of volunteer donors collection of frozen milk from donor volunteers testing, pooling and pasteurizing of donated human milk prescription, and distribution of donated human milk to sick babies two-hour classes on breastfeeding basics. Less Information Read more about Donations of human milk could help sick, hospitalized newborns… November Ensuring safety and ethical allocation of breast milk.

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