Our Mission: Ensure the long-term sustainability of quality programs that translate into better lives for vulnerable Calgarians.

Our Vision: A Calgary always caring for its most vulnerable families.

About Unlocking Potential (UP) Foundation

Founded in 2009, the Unlocking Potential (UP) Foundation raises funds and awareness for the programs offered by Kindred Connections Society (Kindred). Kindred has served vulnerable populations in the Calgary area for over 65 years. UP believes that the family is the single most important influence in a child's development. UP works to ensure the sustainability of innovative programs that build strong families and have a positive impact on future generations.

UP supports programs that reduce social isolation by providing supports and preventative programs to vulnerable Calgarians experiencing, or likely to experience, barriers to connection: relationship and family challenges, emotional or mental health challenges, early parenthood and lone parenthood, a past or current experience of abuse and/or trauma, lack of interpersonal and social skills, limited social supports, and other root causes of disconnection associated with low parent/child attachment in early childhood. The programs’ intended impact is to treat each person served as unique, recognizing the interplay between 3 critical conditions for connection: strong relationships between children and caregivers, healing for and from ruptured relationships, and capacity and confidence in relationship with self and others.