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Local Family Resources

Infant Support
Healthy Beginnings Hotline - 780-413-7990 (up to two months)
Alberta Health Services - Healthy Beginnings 
Family Resource Network - Free Family resources
Edmonton Public Library - Free Play Groups
The Fourth Free Play Group

Early Learning Support
Asha Thomas - Parent consulting
Family Resource Network-Various Services
CASA Child, Adolescent and Family Mental support -Mental health support
Family Futures Programming-Various services - South Edmonton
The Family Center -Various services
Norwood Child and Family Resource Center -Various Services
Jasper Place Family Resources Center
Strathcona County Family Resource NetworkAlberta Parenting for the Future (Parkland and West Family Resource Centre) 
Leduc Family Resource Centre
Pine Integrated Health - Pine Cone Support 
The Fourth Coffee and Convos
Edmonton Public Library - Free infant programming


Inclusive Resources for 2sLGBTQ+
Transgender Support Resources in Alberta and Canada
Pride Center of Edmonton

Child Grief Counselling
Heal my Heart

Bodywork support
Yo Yoga - Yoga for parents and young children
Glow Yoga - Yoga for communities, schools and child care
Yoga in my School - Yoga for preschool to teenagers


Online resources 
Raising Children Network (au)
Peaceful Parent Happy Kids


Book reading list
Whole Brain Child - Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson
The Yes Brain - Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson
Parenting from the inside out - Daniel J Siegel
Raising a Secure Child: How Circle of Security  Parenting Can Help You Nurture your Childs  Attachment, Emotional Resilience, and Freedom to Explore - Kent Hoffman
How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7 - Joanna Faber & Julie King
The Emotional Life of the Toddler - Alicia Lieberman
Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul - Dr. Stuart Brown
Mind in the Making - Ellen Galinsky
Positive discipline  - Jane Nelson
Loving your child on purpose - Danny Silk
Raising Resilience- Christopher Willard
The Wonder Weeks: A Stress-Free Guide to Your Baby's Behavior - Xaviera Plas-Plooij 
Your Baby Is Speaking to You: A Visual Guide to the Amazing Behaviors of Your Newborn and Growing Baby - Dr. Kevin Nugent

I acknowledge, as a third- generation settler with mixed ancestry from Bukovina, Ukraine, and Ireland, and that my practice is situated on Stolen Land, which is within Treaty 6 territory, in amiskwacîwâskahikan ( ᒥᐢᑿᒌᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ Beaver Hills House in Cree); ti oda, (Many Houses as per Nakota Sioux); and Amakowsis, or omahkoyis (Big Lodge from Niisitapi). I understand it is also possible that the fort was known by other names as well, in languages which have yet to be revitalized, but is most recently referred to as Edmonton, AB. This land is the traditional lands of the First Nations, including nêhiyaw, Cree, Dené, Anishinaabe Saulteaux, Nakota Isga Nakota Sioux, and Niitsitapi Blackfoot peoples, the Métis’ homeland and the home of one of the largest communities of Inuit, South of the 60th parallel.

 

For these Nations, intuitive and inner wisdom always was, and still is deeply rooted in their birthing practice shared by their Knowledge Keepers and Elders. Much of the education here in the Western world of Birth Work is stolen and sold to people such as myself, from Indigenous people all over Turtle Island and other parts of the world. This is why I will continue to fight alongside Indigenous communities for Peace, Justice, and Sovereignty. I offer services at low or no price to First Nations people, as well as continue to donate time and money to causes which bring injustices to the First Nations, Indigenous, Inuit and Métis people. I welcome any and all support and feedback to do better at this time.

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I call upon the Canadian Gov't to continue to work with the 94 call to Reconciliation and will continue to personally do my best work towards being a better ally and care taker of this land, while committing to support the agency and autonomy of Indigenous peoples in revitalizing and participating in traditional, contemporary, and future manifestations of their heritage and culture.

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I strive to offer a family practice, inclusive of all people, with equity, inclusion and diversity offered and honoured. These priorities include, but are not limited to, race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, social class, physical ability or attributes, religious or ethical values system, and national origin. As an act of reconciliation, I will continue to work towards creating inclusion, equity and diversity within my Birth Work.


If you identify as a member of a marginalized community and/or the prices I have offered publicly are not accessible for you, please let me offer you an appropriate exchange of services/fee for the services I offer, with the above acknowledged as a way to thank you..

@grow.gentlekind

ashayogaandwellness@gmail.com

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Edmonton, Treaty 6 territory amiskwacîwâskahikan

AB, Turtle Island / Canada

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