Métis Calgary Family Services provides human services to persons requiring an Aboriginal specific  delivery, regardless of status.

Métis Calgary Family Services promotes the principle that the Aboriginal community has a right to assume responsibility and ensure culturally appropriate services are being delivered that respects the individual and unique needs of the Urban Aboriginal family, culturally, socially, and spiritually. MCFS programming is designed to empower individuals, families, and the urban aboriginal community to meet the needs of their children. Parents and Children needs are met through a comprehensive, diverse approach to wholistic practices that embrace traditional methods of sharing and caring.

A family focused approach is promoted over working solely with an individual because it strengthens the family, increasing the likelihood that the children will be able to remain safely at home or be returned to their parents (Family Preservation). By supporting families, the parent’s ability to meet the needs of their children while coping with multiple issues will be enhanced.

Assisting families to establish a support system with their peers and with services in their community enable them to cope better with the inevitable stresses of life and decreases their reliance on formal professional services.

Many urban Aboriginal parents and their children have lost touch with traditional Native values. Traditional Native programming approaches recognize the flexibility required in services by families in whatever services they seek. Customary and Contemporary service providers are teamed together to provide the best wholistic approach to a balanced service delivery. MCFS programming demonstrates and teaches these methods, along with culturally based activities and ceremonies. Staffing by Native people ensures that parents and children alike are exposed to positive results, and services are being provided with a maximum comfort level. Elders assist to provide traditional methods and ways. They also add a third generation dimension to the programs for those who have been cut off from their extended families and are impacted by this gap. MCFS recognizes the important role that the customary service provider brings to a program.