Provincial Prevention Priority
Programming to enhance employability improves prospects for all.
Provincial Prevention Priority
Connecting people with their communities improves their access to support, helps build a strong network, and improves their ability to find work and stay employed.
Improving employability helps creates positive economic outcomes for families and individuals. By helping people build the skills to enter and stay in the workforce, preventive community programming can reduce the risks of violence, crime, and illness, along with mental health and addictions challenges.
Communities that offer a range of services and programs to families and individuals attract new businesses to the community, helping improve employment opportunities.
But the reality is that people from every demographic can fall into a cycle of poverty from low or unemployment.
By addressing the risks of unemployment, poverty and social exclusion in families with children, we can help ensure kids stay kids and avoid a snowball effect of challenges later in life that stem from unemployment and poverty.
Forms of community engagement like volunteering are a good indication of a neighbourhood with lower levels of social isolation, and positive family functioning. Both of which are connected to higher levels of education and employment, lower levels of poverty and a vibrant community.
To increase employment in a community, FCSS programs work to create connections to increase self-sufficiency and resiliency in individuals, leading to stable, functional households, with families and people able to plan for the future and participate in community life.
Prevention Strategies
Along with the provincial priorities, FCSS programs follow the Government of Alberta’s prevention strategies – creating impacts across a wide spectrum of social challenges with interventions to help prevent housing insecurity and homelessness.
Learn how we bring these strategies to life through programming across Alberta.