Carya Society of Calgary
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Mission Statement
Engaging individuals, families and communities to realize their potential.
About This Cause
Since 1910, Carya has been empowering Calgarians to thrive by offering barrier-free programs that strengthen mental well-being, support families, improve living conditions, and foster social connections. Each year, we walk alongside thousands of individuals to address their unique challenges, helping them realize their potential and building resilient communities for generations. With over a century of expertise, Carya remains a cornerstone of Calgary’s social fabric, creating lasting change for those who need it most. Carya offers free or low-cost programs in four interconnected impact areas: 1. Improving mental health: Carya seeks to protect and strengthen mental health by providing evidence-based counselling and support interventions to reduce psychological distress, increase resilience, and improve behavioural health. Mental health across the lifespan directly impacts and is impacted by social connection and family functioning. 2. Improving Family Functioning: Carya seeks to strengthen parents and families by providing evidence-based interventions to support positive parenting practices, improve family functioning and cohesion, and prevent and stop elder abuse. Parental mental health influences parenting behaviours, which shape children’s mental health across the lifespan, along with the ways they parent their own children and care for their aging parents. Family functioning both influences and is influenced by mental health and social connection. 3. Improving Living Conditions: Carya works to improve the living conditions of vulnerable Calgarians through financial wellness and food skills programming, and comprehensive one-on-one supports for older adults to help them obtain what they need to live well. Poverty and its outcomes are associated with a long list of interrelated poor health and social outcomes at the individual, family, and community levels. 4. Increasing Social Connection: Through social connection groups and opportunities offered throughout the city and at Carya’s community hub, Carya seeks to strengthen social connection, social support, and a sense of belonging among individuals and communities, often through a community development lens. Social isolation is associated with a wide range of poor physical and mental health and life course outcomes for people of all ages.