FCSS supports local preventive social services through direct programming and the provision of financial assistance through the grant program.
Applications are now CLOSED
The FCSS Grant online application will reopen June 2025.
Application here
Qualifications
Proposed projects must be managed by, or under the guidance of a community group or agency which is classified as a non-profit organization in Alberta or operating under the administrative jurisdiction of a school division or municipality.
To qualify for support under this program, the proposed project must meet the following requirements:
Promote, encourage, and practice voluntarism and the use of volunteers
Be of a preventive nature in order to:
- enhance, strengthen, and stabilize family and community life
- improve the ability of persons to identify and act on their own social needs
- help prevent family or community social breakdown
- prevent the development of a crisis that may require major intervention or rehabilitative measures in the event that the early symptoms of a social breakdown occur
- Provide services on the basis of clearly identified social needs, with clearly defined goals.
- For more information regarding the FCSS Grant Program please contact the FCSS department at 780-532-9727.
Community groups funded
FCSS provides funding to community groups who provide a range of services to County residents, such as:
Grande Prairie and Area Council on Aging - Seniors' Outreach
- Beaverlodge Hidden Potential Society
- Catholic Family Services- School Liaison Program
- Centre for Young Parents
- Grande Prairie and Area Council on Aging - Seniors Outreach
- Grande Prairie District Grief Support
- Grande Prairie Family Education Society
- Grande Prairie Palliative Care Society
- Grande Prairie Youth Emergency Shelter
- John Howard Society - Eureka Program
- Odyssey House
- Peace Area Riding for the Disable Society (PARDS)
- Rising Above - Life Skills Program
- Resource Centre for Suicide Prevention