Resources

Voice of Albertans with Disabilities

Voice of Albertans with Disabilities is a consumer-directed organization that actively promotes full participation in society for Albertans with disabilities.

Bissell Centre

The Bissell Centre serves the less fortunate of Edmonton’s inner city with individual, community, and family programs designed to move people from poverty to prosperity.

Boyle McCauley Health Centre

The community-owned Boyle McCauley Health Centre responds to the unique needs of Edmonton’s inner city. Along with Capital Health and other stakeholders, they improve the health of individuals and the community by providing a range of primary health and health promotion services to those with limited access.

Canada Confesses

An online-based project exposing the injustices in Canada and those abroad that Canada is responsible for. We amplify individuals and organizations working to solve social inequalities. We are creating a movement that makes Canadians more aware of the issues in their nation and connects them with resources and tools to act. Some of our projects include our anonymous confessions platform, Voices of Canada and more!

Canada Foodgrains Bank

A Christian Response to Hunger. A Christian-based food aid and development organization that collects donations of grain, cash and other agricultural commodities for distribution to the world’s hungry

George Spady Centre

Provides a continuum of support services to people with complex life circumstances associated with substance-related and concurrent disorders and homelessness, empowering them to improve their lives through client-centered, evidence-based best practices.

Greater Edmonton Alliance

The Greater Edmonton Alliance (GEA) is a broad-based organization which works to coalesce, train, and organize the communities of Greater Edmonton across religious, labour, ethnic, class and neighborhood lines for the common good.

Habitat for Humanity: Canada / International

The international, non-profit, non-denominational Christian housing organization.

Inner City Pastoral Ministry

ICPM is an ecumenical Christian ministry of presence serving the people of the inner city of Edmonton. It was started in 1978 by members of the United Church who recognized a need for a church in the Inner City.

Operation Friendship Seniors’ Society

A non-profit society that provides community-based preventative social services to the seniors of Edmonton’s inner city, providing safe, affordable non-institutional housing options

Parkland Institute

An Alberta-wide, non-partisan research centre situated within the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta. Parkland Institute studies economic, social, cultural, and political issues facing Albertans and Canadians.

Project Ploughshares

A Canadian peace research institute with a focus on disarmament efforts and international security. The name and mandate for Project Ploughshares come from the ancient biblical vision in Isaiah in which the material and human wealth consumed by military preparations are transformed into resources for human development and in which such transformation removes the roots of war itself.

Soles4Souls

A project for collecting new or almost new shoes for people in need around the world.

Phone Resources

Central Alberta Sexual Assault Support Centre Crisis
call or text 1.866.956.1099 (24/7)

Distress Line
780.482-4357 (24/7)

Mental Health Help Line
1.877.303.2642 (24/7)

Family Violence Info Line
780.310-1818 (24/7)

Kids Help Phone
1.800.668.6868 or text CONNECT to 686868 (24/7)

Children’s Mental Health Crisis & Response Team
780.427.4491 -for hours of operation visit their website

Child Abuse Hotline (including reporting suspected child abuse)
1.800.387.KIDS (5437) (24/7)

LGBT Youthline
1.800.268.9688 (2 – 7:30 pm MT Sunday-Friday)

Trans Lifeline
1.877-565-8860 (24/7)

Indigenous Hope for Wellness Help Line
1.855.242.3310 or chat (24/7)

Information and referral to services
call 211 or visit www.ab.211.ca