Welcome to the AFPA Website

As Norm Brownell, President, AFPA President of the Alberta Foster Parent Association I welcome you to our website. I encourage you to spend time to familiarize yourself with the many programs our association offers to foster and adoptive families. We hope you will find the information on this site informative and helpful. If you have any questions, please contact us.

Sincerely,
Norm Brownell, President

About the AFPA The Alberta Foster Parent Association provides support to foster families, advocates for the rights of children, educates the community about foster care, provides and arranges for training and social gatherings, and serves as a liaison between foster families and Alberta Children & Youth Services.

Adopting a Child On any given day there are two hundred children available for adoption in Alberta. The AFPA provides an online resource centre for pre and post adoption information. The provision of post adoption supports is critical if we are to secure permanent, stable, loving families for the waiting children.

Help When You Need It The AFPA Support Line Team is designed to provide after-hours and week-end emergency support, and advice and referral for foster families and adoptive families. The program is delivered by volunteer foster parents who have experience in fostering, a good understanding of policy and procedures, and have taken conflict resolution training.

Our Programs The AFPA provides many support programs to foster parent families including: Foster Allegation Support Team, Legal Assistance Program, Citation Awards Program, Annual Training Conference, and numerous discounts from Fields, the Brick Warehouse, Avis Car Rental, Hughes Petroleum, and more.

Alberta Foster Parent Association

NEWS:

The AFPA unforunately has had to postpone the Aboriginal Awareness weekend which was scheduled May 24th - 26th, 2013 until September 2013. Date to be announced shortly. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused anyone and hope you are able to attend in September. It is sure to be a great weekend and we look forward to seeing many of you there!

Volunteer Work Bee

Friday, May 10 to Sunday, May 12

Directions to the campsite

Thank you to all those who came out to help at this past work bee.
The work you do is invaluble and we appreciate it all.

Please stay tuned for more volunteer opportunities.

volunteer opportunity

2013 Summer Camper and Volunteer Registration forms are now up!!

Check out our Campground page to get yours today!!

The AASCF provides a comprehensive directory of all sorts of businesses and services to provide free or discounted options for low income Albertans.

Save on haircuts, entertainment, medical costs, recreation and more!

The April 2013 Newsletter is up! Check out the Newsletter webpage for current and past issues.

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Family isn't whose blood you carry; it's who you love and who loves you back.
-Jackie Chan

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