Community and family support
Leduc County's Family and Community Support Services (FCSS) provides a variety of programs and support services to enhance the well-being of individuals and families in our community. We are a member of the Family and Community Support Services Association of Alberta.
Check out the services available to families with children under the age of 18 in Leduc County.
Apply for one of Leduc County's grants, scholarships and or funding opportunities for community groups.
Explore the community resources available to all Leduc County residents.
Increase your financial stability and reduce finance-related stress with Leduc County's Financial Empowerment Program.
View our health and wellness support services. This includes counselling and mental health support programs and subsidies.
Access one-on-one and in-home support for adults and seniors in Leduc County.
Online and telephone programs and workshops
Open to residents of Leduc County, Calmar, Thorsby, Warburg and New Sarepta. Participation may require internet access by computer, laptop, tablet, smartphone or telephone. See descriptions for more information. If you don’t have access to the necessary technology, contact us for access to resources that may help.
Recorded webinars
- Impacts of vaping on youth
- Planning for the future: wills, personal directives and EPOAs
- Getting Comfortable with Risky Play
- Virtual event: Aloha Dancers YEG
- Funeral planning after someone has died
- Co-parenting for success: session one
- Related links referenced in Co-parenting for success: session one
- Co-parenting for success: session two
- Co-parenting for success: session three
- Family law podcast number one: child support
- Family law podcast number two: child support
- Fraud Prevention
- Understanding housing options as we age (part one of three)
- Deciding whether to stay or move (part two of three)
- Selling your first home for the last time (part three of three)
- Cannabis use: risks and benefits
- 20 Modifications to Make to Age Well at Home
- Cannabis Use in Older Adults: Risks and Benefits
- Mental Health During and After the Pandemic
- Blue Monday
- Blue Monday is known as the most depressing day of the year. It’s dark, it’s cold and the credit card bills from holiday spending are arriving. Join artists, poets and storytellers for an ode to both the struggle and the hope that we need in our darkest hours. Through powerful and inspiring performances, we will honour the melancholy and welcome the new year with some optimism and anticipation.
- Listen to the Blue Monday performances here.
Stand Up For Mental Health
On May 6, Leduc County Family and Community Support Services (FCSS) hosted Stand Up for Mental Health™, a comedy show featuring local comedians with lived experience of mental health challenges. Seven local residents participated in a month-long workshop series to formulate their troubles into healing through humour, with the help of facilitator David Granirer.
David is a counsellor, comedian, speaker and author from Vancouver who lives with bipolar disorder and is the creator of the Stand Up for Mental Health™ program. The program was made possible due to the generous grant funding provided by the Rural Mental Health Project (RMHP).
The evening was filled with fun and awareness raising that was both gut-and-stigma busting at the same time! Each of the comics’ video recorded clips are available below:
Living Library photo galleries
Throughout 2021, FCSS has hosted several virtual Living Library events that explored a number of different themes affecting our community, such as mental health, suicide, overdose, addiction and men’s health.
The premise of the Living Library is that human beings are like books and have interesting lived experience. By attending, one is ‘checking out’ another person’s story. Sometimes, others’ stories resonate with their own and other times they provide a window into a world completely unknown to them. The goal is to have meaningful conversations about sensitive topics, to increase understanding and to reduce shame and stigma around certain social issues.
The events have proved to be profound experiences for speakers and listeners alike. Participants have reported opening up to new perspectives and becoming more trauma-informed. Speakers reported feeling seen, heard and honoured by sharing what they have been through and learned.
While Living Library events are not appropriate for audio or video recording, many events have captured through an illustration created by a graphic recording artist. The following artwork was created by graphic recorder, Sam Hester:
International Overdose Awareness Day
Four stories: Tyler MacPhee, Christine Harris, Jessica Farmer and Brandon McWilliams
Suicide Prevention Day
Three stories: Giselle Messer, Michelle Zoschke, and Luanne
International Men's Day
Four stories: Brian Christianson, Jennifer Summerfeldt, Kristopher Marks and Stan Rose
International Women's Day
One story: March 8, 2022
Unpacking Mental Health
One story: May 18, 2022
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Guiding principles
We have five guiding principles that are important to program success:
- prevention
- volunteerism
- community development
- local autonomy
- accountability