بِسْمِ اللّٰهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
Know Your Rights.
Protect Your Family.
Knowing Your Rights echoes khayr — خَيْر — goodness, benefit, and wellbeing
Plain-language education about Alberta home and community care, privacy, safety, and complaint pathways for Muslim seniors and caregivers in Edmonton — with materials designed for English, Arabic, Somali, Urdu, and Amharic-speaking families.
Plain-language home care and rights education — in the language your family understands.
Many Muslim families do not know that publicly funded home and community care may be available in Alberta, that care needs can be reviewed when circumstances change, or that dignity, privacy, and health information protections are recognized in Alberta law and continuing care standards.
Knowing Your Rights helps Alberta families understand what is a legal right, what is a continuing care standard, what is a program rule, and what is a reasonable care request. We cover how to ask for a home and community care assessment, privacy and health information protections, faith-related care needs including food, modesty, and prayer-related requests where applicable, care assessment and review pathways, elder abuse warning signs and reporting options, and caregiver workplace protections — with materials designed for English, Arabic, Somali, Urdu, and Amharic-speaking families, and for community education settings including masjid-based halaqas where available.
Designed for halaqas
Monthly guest speaker sessions for existing Friday and Saturday halaqas, where available — using learning spaces many families already know and trust.
Five language tracks
English, Arabic, Somali, Urdu, and Amharic — plain-language resource guides with source-based legal accuracy review before publication.
Always free
No registration fee and no session fee. Public education resources on KnowingYourRights.ca are free to access.
"Knowing what to ask, what to document, and where to escalate can be the difference between feeling stuck — and taking the next step when care is not working."
A program built by the community it serves.
The Community Care Education Society of Alberta is a not-for-profit incorporated under the Alberta Societies Act.
Five of our six founding members are Muslim sisters aged 55 and older. This care and outreach work was already happening — through their own time, their own vehicles, and their own hearts — before any application was written.
President
Co-Facilitator — curriculum, content design & English delivery
Director
Co-Facilitator — Somali community, interpretation & home visits
Vice President
Co-Facilitator — Arabic & Palestinian community, interpretation
Director
Community Outreach Coordinator
Secretary
Amharic translation & Ethiopian Muslim community
Treasurer
Co-Facilitator — Urdu community, interpretation
"Our work is grounded in the spirit of amanah — trust and responsibility carried for the sake of others. Every Muslim senior who struggles to understand the care system, who does not know what questions to ask, or whose family has not been clearly told about publicly funded home and community care options is part of why we are here. Knowledge can help protect dignity. This is khayr — خَيْر — goodness carried for the sake of others."
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