Fidelity Healing Homes
Our History
Committed to Making a Difference
In 2019, Our family set out to make a difference in the lives of children and youth all throughout Alberta and beyond by providing them with all the tools, resources and support they need in order to shape them into the leaders of tomorrow. Over the years, Fidelity Healing Homes has grown to be the best Youth Social Services Organization in the area - offering youth of the community a chance to reach their fullest potential.
Statement of Principles
Our homes embodies passion and commitment to the wellbeing of children and youth. We believe in the worth of every child and with the right support, resources and a nurturing environment, children are able to transcend trauma, thrive to become well adjusted and fully functioning members of the community and contribute positively to the society and the world at large. To this end, we are committed to providing a safe, secure, and supportive residential care to enhance the physical, mental, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual capacity of children in our care - through positive, nature-setting and culturally inspired experiences that our home provides. We strive to enhance:
• Healthy Attachment.
• Holistic Sense of Identity.
• Mental, emotional, intellectual, physical, and spiritual growth.
• Development to optimum potential.
• Cultural competence and inspired programs.
Vision Statement
Through an informed transculturally based approach, Fidelity Healing Homes’s vision is to work with children and youth and collaboratively with their guardians, support network, and professionals in supporting healthy development and to create a safe, healthy, family-like, tranquil, and therapeutic home-based environment as close to community support and resources as possible
Mission Statement
To provide a nurturing, healing and supportive environment for youth where they can build healthy relationships, learn new skills and explore their potential to set each individual up for success with their family, career and community. Healing past traumas through holistic and cultural values and beliefs can ensure our children a place to belong and become meaningful adult in the future
Goals and Objectives
• To provide a non-institutional group living option within a culture of family specific to all children and youth, regardless of gender, in response to referrals from the surrounding Delegated First Nations Agencies (DFNA). Children and youth aged birth (0) to twelve (12) years are eligible for our program specifically if presenting with trauma responses (behaviors) which may require a more intensive environment than other community-based programs provide, and/or have family-based issues to which stabilization, intervention and healing is required before they can reside in their home.
• To promote behavior stabilization within children and youth in the program so that reintegration with the family remains a possibility and/or transition to a less intrusive environment is possible.
• To promote appropriate interaction skills, encourage and teach the ability to bond to others.
• To teach and role model life skills and provide cultural / community experiences.
• To address any addiction issues.
• To improve the self-esteem and self-worth of each youth and child in the program.
• To promote personal self-development within each individual in the program.
• To address spiritual issues with each youth and child in the program.
• To provide culturally informed services to our Indigenous children and youth. In order to achieve a healthy lifestyle, we encourage our children to be comfortable with their cultural identity. This is accomplished through using Elders and other valuable assets to learn the importance of their traditional values through the four (4) components of the Medicine Wheel:
1. Mental Well-being
2. Spiritual / Cultural Well-being
3. Emotional Well-Being
4. Physical Well-Being