Looking back on 2020: An eventful year for Distress Centre Image: Our 2020 staff and volunteer photo, taken in December. Like the rest of the world, 2020 was one of […]
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Category: Counselling
50 Stories Part 42: Face-to-Face for 50 years
50 Stories Part 42: Face-to-Face for 50 years Image: Distress Centre counsellors in 2017. Read – 50 Stories Part 41 The professional qualifications for Distress Centre counsellors have increased over […]
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50 Stories Part 34: Why We Were Doing All This – Counselling in the 2000s
Image: Counsellors at a team building event in 2000. Read – 50 Stories Part 33 Counsellors in the first half of the 2000s continued providing face-to- face meetings, referrals, volunteer […]
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50 Stories Part 21: Saving a life – Judy’s story
Read – 50 Stories Part 20 Client confidentiality has always been foundational to Distress Centre’s work. Occasionally callers or counselling clients choose to make their stories public, to increase awareness […]
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50 Stories Part 20: You Just Felt Honoured – Counselling in the ’90s
Read – 50 Stories Part 19 Counselling and public education continued to be a significant part of the Distress Centre/Drug Centre’s (DC/DC) services. Fred Burns was Clinical Supervisor, and Suzanne Rosebrugh the Drug Counsellor. Along with five crisis counsellors they saw a variety […]
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50 Stories Part 16: More Than a Warm Heart: Counselling in the 80s
Read – 50 Stories Part 15 Counselling continued to be a key aspect of the Distress Centre/Drug Centre services. At the 10th anniversary reception, Jeanette noted that there were 1000 […]
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What do you carry with you?
In 2016, Distress Centre Calgary responded to 113,975 phone calls, emails, chats, texts and requests for counselling. People from all walks of life reach out to us for support day […]
For World Suicide Prevention Day: 19% of Distress Centre’s online contacts are suicide related
Last year Distress Centre Calgary responded to 113,975 calls, emails, chats, texts and counselling requests from people in distress. From January 1st to July 31st, 2017 suicide presented on 3,925 […]
