Partnerships

Balwin School is fortunate to be partnered with numerous organizations that are dedicated to providing support to families as their students pursue extraordinary learning.

Partnerships include:

• The Family Centre
• Balwin Community League 
• Free Play
• Edmonton Mennonite Center for Newcomers
• REACH
• Alberta Health Services
• Edmonton Food Bank
• Tim Horton Children's Foundation
• E4C
• Big Brothers Big Sisters Boys and Girls Clubs

These organizations support our work at the school and the local community through their generous donation of numerous supports. These include:

• After School Programming
• Breakfast/Snack/Nutrition Programs
• Counselors to speak with students and families
• Roots and Wings to provide supports for parents/guardians
• Mentorship Programs
• Tools for Schools

We are very fortunate to have the opportunity to work with all these supportive partners.

Family Centre

Balwin School has partnered with The Family Centre to support our families and children.

The Family Centre brings Success Coaches and Aboriginal Commitment Coaches into our school. They are a valuable resource to help support children and youth who are at risk of having unsuccessful school experiences.

Coaches help children and youth become positively engaged with their school, resulting in them attending school, succeeding academically, reducing high risk behaviour, increasing internal and external resources, developing positive goals and to begin to see themselves as having the potential for future success.

The Family Centre also provides Family Therapy to our families who are in crisis or need counseling support.

For more information of The Family Centre go to http://the-family-centre.com/