Nampa Family Community
Support Services (FCSS)
Family & Community Support Services (FCSS) is a municipal-provincial program that enables Alberta Communities to take part in activities or services that strengthen the family and community. It is a cost sharing arrangement between the province and a municipality, enabling the municipality to provide services for its residents.
The FCSS Regulation says that the program must:
- Promote volunteerism
- Be preventative
- Enhance, strengthen and stabilize family and community life
- Improve peoples ability to identify and act on their own needs
- Help avert family, or community social breakdown
- Help prevent small problems from turning into crisis and
- Provide citizens with information about its planning and operation
- Use clearly identified needs and effective planning as the basis for services provided
- Encourage cooperation and coordination with other services in the community
The FCSS Regulation says the program must not:
- Primarily provide for recreation or leisure time pursuits
- Offer direct financial assistance to an individual or family
- Be primarily rehabilitative in nature
- Duplicate services that fall within the mandate of a government agency, or services already available in the community
HOME SUPPORT PROGRAM
The Nampa/Northern Sunrise County FCSS Home Support Program is designed to promote well-being by providing assistance to elders/seniors, the ill, frail, disabled, or new mothers by assisting them in their households by:
- housekeeping/homemaking services (routine housekeeping, laundry, etc.)
- meal planning and meal preparation
- limited respite care (maximum of 6 hours per week)
- other home management services deemed appropriate
Cost of Services
Fee for services is based on a sliding scale determined by Family Income (minimum of $5.00 per hour)
If you could benefit or know someone who could benefit from the Home Support Program please call 780-322-3954 or visit one of the FCSS Offices.
Please click on https://northernsunrise.net/community-services/ for more information
Located in the Nampa Municipal Library
Box 572, Nampa, AB T0H 2R0
780-322-3954 (phone)
ahoule@northernsunrise.net – Amber Houle
asurman@northernsunrise.net- Alicia Campbell