Social Services

The Rocky View County Family and Community Support Services Program (FCSS) provides funding to support the preventive social needs of area residents. Rocky View County is a member of the Provincial FCSS Program and the Family and Community Support Services Association of Alberta.

Rocky View County residents may obtain community, social, government, and health services information and referrals through 211 Alberta.

Residents can reach 211 via phone, text or chat, anytime 24/7. The service is free, confidential and available in over 170 languages over the phone.

  • Dial 2-1-1
  • Text INFO to 211
  • Visit ab.211.ca and click "Live Chat"

Additionally, a variety of County-supported programs may be able to provide assistance to residents during regular business hours, Monday to Friday.


West Rocky View

Beaupre, Bottrel, Bragg Creek, Cochrane, Madden, Springbank, and surrounding area residents.

Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Calgary and Area

Big Brothers and Big Sisters ensures that children and youth facing adversity have the relationships they need to become resilient and realize their full potential.

With the support of professional, qualified staff, mentors form strong one-to-one relationships with mentees that express care, challenge growth, provide support, share power, and expand possibilities.

These critical developmental relationships allow children and youth to strengthen their social emotional learning and executive functioning skills, developing them into resilient young people who are able to overcome life’s adversities and achieve more.

Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Calgary and Area
403-777-3535
bbbs.calgary@bigbrothersbigsisters.ca

Bearspaw-Glendale Community Association

The Bearspaw Glendale Community Association delivers community enrichment programs designed to strengthen the sense of community by engaging residents in local social programs.

Bearspaw Lifestyle Centre
403-239-1502
adminisration@bearspawlc.org

Boys and Girls Club of Cochrane and Area

Boys and Girls Clubs offer children through to young adulthood, a safe place to channel energies into positive, challenging activities that encourage personal growth, learning, community involvement, and healthy living.

Boys and Girls Club of Cochrane and Area
403-981-2020
info@bgccochrane.ca

Bragg Creek Community Association

Through the community association, a Community Support Worker from Cochrane Family and Community Support Services offers rural residents opportunities to meet with a worker in their own community and connect to local resources (financial, physical, and emotional supports).

Rumble and Roar is a parented drop-in program designed to help promote pre-school aged children’s’ physical, cognitive, and social-emotional learning.

Bragg Creek Community Association
403-949-4277
info@braggcreekca.com

Cochrane and Area Victim Services Society

Cochrane Victim Services provides crisis response and non-judgmental emotional support to individuals and families affected by crime, tragedy, and trauma to help lessen the immediate impact. Assistance also includes information on appropriate community referrals to ensure victims are informed about available professional supports.

Cochrane and Area Victim Services Society
403-851-8055
Email

Cochrane Family and Community Support Services (FCSS)

The Cochrane FCSS responds to community needs with programs and events that strengthen and improve the quality of life for families, individuals, and children. Partnerships make this possible with the provision of facilitators, facilities, and volunteers, developing strong networks for FCSS within the community.

Cochrane FCSS
403-851-2500
Email Contact Form

Friends of Spirit Winds Ranch

Programs offer opportunities to explore and develop both life skills and relationship building skills through equine communication in a safe, inclusive environment.

Friends of Spirit Winds Ranch
403-999-7763
laurel@spiritwindsranch.ca

Helping Hands Society of Cochrane and Area

Helping Hands link people who help with people who need help and may not have a support network or financial resources to help themselves. Volunteers fill unmet human needs and strengthen community by assisting low income individuals and single parent families, seniors, chronically ill or injured, and newcomers with practical needs.

Helping Hands Society of Cochrane and Area
587-580-9448
programs@helpinghandscochrane.ca

Seniors for Kids

Seniors for Kids provides an opportunity for senior volunteers to participate in a valuable and rewarding experience with the youth of the community, and for students without grandparents in the area to spend quality time with senior volunteers within a school environment, thus bridging the gap between the two generations.

Seniors for Kids
403-861-4558
Contact Form

Variety - the Children's Charity of Alberta Association

Variety Alberta delivers “The Just Like You ™ Education Program”. This program:

  • Raises awareness and increases understanding and acceptance of people who are living with disabilities.
  • Addresses the need to support a culture of inclusion, where all children and community members regardless of ability or specialized need are accepted and celebrated and are positioned to succeed and achieve their own victories.
  • Helps children have a greater understanding of the potential of people with all types of disabilities.
  • Provides opportunities for children to openly talk about differences and develops an understanding of social responsibility.
  • Provides opportunities for children to talk about bullying and why children who may look or act differently want to play and have friends just like everybody else.

Variety Alberta
info@varietyalberta.ca


North Rocky View

Airdrie, Balzac, Beiseker, Crossfield, Irricana, Kathyrn, and surrounding area residents.

Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Calgary and Area

Big Brothers and Big Sisters ensures that children and youth facing adversity have the relationships they need to become resilient and realize their full potential.

With the support of professional, qualified staff, mentors form strong one-to-one relationships with mentees that express care, challenge growth, provide support, share power, and expand possibilities.

These critical developmental relationships allow children and youth to strengthen their social emotional learning and executive functioning skills, developing them into resilient young people who are able to overcome life’s adversities and achieve more.

Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Calgary and Area
403-777-3535
bbbs.calgary@bigbrothersbigsisters.ca

Airdrie Boys and Girls Club

Boys and Girls Clubs offer children through to young adulthood, a safe place to channel energies into positive, challenging activities that encourage personal growth, learning, community involvement, and healthy living.

Airdrie Boys and Girls Club
403-948-3331
skowal@bgcairdrie.com

Airdrie and District Victim Services

Airdrie and District Victim Services provides crisis response and non-judgmental emotional support to individuals and families affected by crime, tragedy, and trauma to help lessen the immediate impact. Assistance also includes information on appropriate community referrals to ensure victims are informed about available professional supports.

Airdrie and District Victim Services
403-945-7290

Community Links

Community Links is a non-profit charitable organization which strengthens individuals, from birth to seniors, families, and communities of North Rocky View by providing and connecting residents with services, supports and resources.

Community Links
403-945-3900
info@nrvcl.ab.ca

Crossfield Day Camp

Crossfield Day Camp is a non-profit organization directed by caring local parents, as well as members from the Town of Crossfield. The camp operates out of the Crossfield Elementary School from July 8 to August 16, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., with after care available until 5 p.m., and is open to all children ages 5-12.

Crossfield Day Camp
403-369-8810
crossfield.daycamp@gmail.com

Crossfield Playschool

Crossfield Playschool offers an affordable preschool program that develops mental, social, and emotional facets in children three to five years of age.

Crossfield Playschool
403-946-0255
crossfieldplayschoolboard@gmail.com

KIK Seniors

The KIK objectives are to provide fellowship and activities of interest to members 50 years of age and older, held at the Irricana clubhouse.

KIK Seniors


Southeast Rocky View

Conrich, Dalemead, Dalroy, Indus, Langdon, and surrounding area residents.

The Centre for Sexuality

The Centre’s Girls’ Program is a year-long, school based, evidence-informed program dedicated to addressing many of the complex issues facing young girls today.

Centre for Sexuality
403-283-5580
info@centreforsexuality.ca

Chestermere Family and Community Support Services (FCSS)

The Chestermere FCSS Family & Community Resource Centre team works with adults, families, and seniors in Langdon, Indus and area to coordinate programs from parenting to senior workshops throughout the year.

Chestermere FCSS
403-207-7050
csinfo@chestermere.ca

Indus Preschool Society

The Indus Preschool Society helps kids, ages three to five, prepare for kindergarten, learn important social skills that will help them in their daily lives, and connect with others in a fun and positive environment, while helping them to develop a sense of self and independence.

Indus Preschool Society
403-936-5474 Ext. 4
info@induspreschool.com

Langdon Older Kids Club

A non-profit organization that represents and serves residents 50 years of age and older, of Langdon and surrounding areas, by organizing and promoting social, recreational, athletic, educational and other activities.

Langdon OK Club
langdonokclub@gmail.com

Langdon Theatre Association

The mandate of the Langdon Theatre Association is to deliver fun, affordable programs to the children of Langdon and the surrounding area, while providing them with life skills such as self-esteem, team building, and self worth.

Langdon Theatre Association
587-573-1773
ltateachers@gmail.com

Synergy Youth and Community Development Society

Synergy Youth and Community Development Society empowers youth and community groups to build strong connections through relationships, education, leadership, and programming.

Synergy Youth and Community Development Society
403-212-0242
involved@yoursynergy.ca

FCSS

For more information on FCSS programs, contact 403.230.1401.

Our Communities

Get information on each of the various communities that make up Rocky View County.