People who experience homelessness, food insecurity, and toxic stress can have a higher risk for suicide. Through customized, integrated care, CUPS aims to help people meet their needs, build resiliency, and reduce risk.
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Brain science reveals that lifelong health is determined by more than just our genes: our experiences at sensitive periods of our development can change the brain in ways that increase or decrease risk for later physical and mental illness, including addiction.
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Weekly Community Impact Update
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Healthy development in the early years provides the building blocks for educational achievement, economic productivity, responsible citizenship, lifelong health, strong communities and successful parenting of the next generation.
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Sometimes, life takes unexpected turns that can leave you scrambling to understand what happened, let alone figure out what to do or how to move forward.
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We’re thrilled to share that our very own Carlene Donnelly was recognized with an award, in the category of individual leadership in family violence prevention.
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Even through the COVID-19 health crisis, CUPS is providing integrated community-based programs and services through technical means that meet the complex needs of low-income individuals and families.
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A lack of housing and connection to resources in the community often leads to recurrent visits, lower quality of care and an increased burden on our health care system for vulnerable Calgarians.
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The World Health Organization has a goal to eliminate Hepatitis C by 2030, which makes days like World Hepatitis Day so important.
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In the midst of a pandemic, Albertans are feeling the stress. And with increased stress comes an increased sense of trauma.
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Did you know there are an estimated 90,000+ households in Calgary in need of affordable housing, including those who are homeless?
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With her two daughters at the CDC, CUPS mom Dalila wondered how schooling-from-home would affect their learning and life at home.
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Many individuals and families we support at CUPS experience racism that impacts their ability to overcome the adversity of poverty and trauma.
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In honour of Men’s Health Week, which takes place from June 15 to 21, 2020, we’re sharing a special CUPS client story from our Connect 2 Care (C2C) team.
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How to connect with students and shape young brains when our educators could not be physically present? Though it seems counter-intuitive, they took to the screen.
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Mealtime is one key family time that our partners at Cenovus wanted to ensure held true through the COVID-19 pandemic.
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In response to COVID, the CUPS Nurturing Parent Program team looked for innovative ways to keep the sessions going so participants could graduate from the 16-week program!
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As we celebrate National Physicians' Day on May 1, we want to recognize the incredible commitment of CUPS doctors to to improving the health of Calgarians living with the effects of poverty and trauma.
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In honour of National Volunteer Week, we’re shouting out a few of the thousands of incredible volunteers who have helped out at CUPS and highlighted a few from the past few months.
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From connectivity to education, health staff support and basic needs, now is the time to give, if you can, to support our most vulnerable community members.
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