Alberta Children's Hospital

The Alberta Children's Hospital
The home of the Family & Community Resource Centre. At the Alberta Children's Hospital, families participate in treatment decisions, post-operative and ongoing care plans as members of multi-disciplinary teams. This is family-centred care.

Alberta Children's Hospital Virtual Tour
This virtual tour is meant to help parents, children and visitors become familiar with the hospital before they arrive.

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Cancer in Children

CureSearch
CureSearch unites the world's largest childhood cancer research organization, the Children's Oncology Group, and the National Childhood Cancer Foundation through our mission to cure childhood cancer. Research is the key to the cure.

Kids Cancer Care Foundation of Alberta
The Kids Cancer Care Foundation of Alberta is a charitable organization that helps build bridges of hope and pillars of support for families fighting cancer.

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Family Support

CaringBridge
Free, personalized websites that support and connect loved ones during critical illness, treatment and recovery.

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Fun & Educational Activities

KidsHealth
KidsHealth provides doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through adolescence. KidsHealth has separate areas for kids, teens, and parents, each with its own design, age-appropriate content, and tone.

Band-Aides and Blackboards
This is a sites goal is to help people understand what it's like, from the perspective of children and teens who are growing up with medical problems.

Just for Kids
The St Louis Children's Hospital's kids page. It has coloring sheets, word searches and some games. They can be printed them out and enjoyed at home.

Control Asthma Now
Support for pediatric asthma patients and families in their family physicians and pediatrician’s offices with asthma education and spirometry.

BAM! Body and Mind
Learn about fitness, food and nutrition, exercise, disease, and safety. Take a quiz, play a game, or create a fitness calendar.

NSF Scrub Club
A fun, interactive and educational website that teaches children the proper way to wash their hands.

HealthRock
HealthRoc uses games, computers and music to make learning about health and wellness fun.

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General Health Information

Safer Together
The Patient Engagement Department partnered with a variety of AHS program areas and with patient's and their families to develop communication tools around the patient and families role in safety. Safer Together Video.

3 Cheers for the Early Years
This website gives parents and professionals information and resources to assist in raising healthy children.

Health Information Library
Over one thousand topics of health information are available on the Health Information Library. The topics have been developed by Alberta Health Services - Calgary clinical experts.

Public Health Agency of Canada
Promotes and protects the health of Canadians through leadership, partnership, innovation and action in public health.

Medline Plus
MedlinePlus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health, and other health-related organizations.

About Kids Health
Provides families with reliable, current information about all areas influencing child health and family quality of life in a format that is easy to understand.

NIH Health Information
National Institutes of Health is one of the world's foremost medical research centers, and the Federal focal point for medical research in the United States.

Health Link Alberta
Health Link provides advice and information about health symptoms and concerns. It can also help you find appropriate services and health information.

American Academy of Pediatrics
An organization of pediatricians committed to the attainment of optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.

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Premature Infants

Calgary Health Region's Division of Neonatology
The Calgary Health Region's Neonatology website for Parents provides information on local Newborn Intensive Care.

Medlineplus: Premature Babies
Has a large collection of information and articles relating to premature babies.

The Merck Manuals
Explains disorders, who is likely to get them, their symptoms, how they're diagnosed, how they might be prevented, and how they can be treated.There are sections dedicated to Newborns and Infants & Problems in Newborns.

About Kids Health: Premature Babies
Includes information about the causes of prematurity, the challenges of premature birth, the development of the baby, and the long-term implication of prematurity.

Preemie-L mentoring program
This resource guide is part of the Preemie-L mentoring program where experienced parents provide one to one support for new parents of premature babies.

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Southern Alberta Resources

Inform Alberta
Provincial on-line directory of publicly funded and/or not-for-profit community, health, social, and government organizations and services

Family Centre Lethbridge
Family Centre of Southwestern Albertais a community-based organization, working with children, families and caregivers to enhance identified strengths, to build capacities and to promote healthy development.

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Transition to Adult Services


Youth In Transition Resource Links
Nephrology Clinic Transition Resource Links

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Community Resources

Resources for Newcomers

Links

Publications

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