Services

Cultural Groups

Religious Groups

Leisure Activities

Low-Income Specific Support

Applying to Services (Forms, Documents & Legal Issues)

Health-Care

Libraries

Low-Income Specific Support

 Occupational Therapists can: 
- Provide information to clients who may need essential services such as food or health care
- Inform clients of various options they have in housing, transportation or education
- Refer clients to social work or support programs available throughout the city

Tough Times Handbook (The Support Network)
- Guide for services provided to unemployed and low-income people
- Many resources on skill development, employment, interview assistance, coping with crisis, hotlines, financial assistance

Resource List (For Edmonton Specifically)
- Lists for anger management, children, disabilities, family violence, etc. 

The entire list can be found here, as a general resource of occupational therapists

Food

Information on associations that provide free food or health care services (Edmonton Public Library)

Items

FreeCycle Edmonton
- Provides: network of people providing and receiving things for free

Suit Yourself
- Provides: Professional outfits for clients who require a new wardrobe for employment
- Must be referred by employment assistance / social service agency

Health Benefits

http://employment.alberta.ca/FCH/2073.html
- People eligible for income support can receive card to cover prescription drugs, eye examsand glasses, dental care, emergency ambulance services, diabetic supplies and enrollment in Alberta Health Care Insurance

Income Support

Income Support (Government of Alberta)

- Provides for families who cannot take care of their basic needs
- For those with difficulty working due to mental illness or physical health problems, people who are looking for work or people who are upgrading / training
- Provides health benefits, information and training on job search, obtaining child support payments

Emergency Needs Allowance
- Covers emergency costs of food, housing and repairs

Financial Support for Training (Alberta Works Income Support) 

Taxes

Vibrant Edmonton
- Assistance with taxes and child support services

1) Make Tax Time Pay (MTTP) Program
 - Provides free tax preparation and help with filling out benefit applications
2) Child Support Services

Housing

Guide to Emergency Shelters (Edmonton Public Library)

Winter Emergency Resources
Provides information on: shelters, food and drop in, warming centres

homeEd properties
- non-profit housing for renters with low incomes

Leisure

Leisure Access Program (for low-income clients)

- Read the Brochure
- Look at the Site
- Fill out the application

Offers: 
- Unlimited and free admission to several facilities (Leisure Centres, Rec Centres, Sport Centres) 
- Subsidized programs for adults, seniors, children and youth

For those on: 
- AISH / Income Support
- Child Health Benefits Card 
- Treaty Status and on AISH
- Alberta Children’s Treatment Services card (applying for children/youth in a group home) 
- For those with no Health Benefits Card, but are below the low-income cut-off line
- Immigrants to Canada within the year


KidsSport 
- Provides: grants to children from low-income families to participate in registered sports programs
- For low-income, unemployed, AISH and income-support families


References:

http://www.epl.ca/EPLMaster.cfm?id=SERVICESFORL0001
Alberta Works: http://employment.alberta.ca/FCH/3171.html