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COVID-19: 1 Year Later – Distress Centre’s counselling program response This is part two in our multi-part series exploring Distress Centre’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, one year after we […]
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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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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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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 […]
Read More… from 50 Stories Part 34: Why We Were Doing All This – Counselling in the 2000s
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 […]
Read More… from 50 Stories Part 21: Saving a life – Judy’s story
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 […]
Read More… from 50 Stories Part 20: You Just Felt Honoured – Counselling in the ’90s
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 […]
Read More… from 50 Stories Part 16: More Than a Warm Heart: Counselling in the 80s
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 […]
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 […]
In the spirit of respect, reciprocity and truth, Distress Centre Calgary would like to honour and acknowledge Moh’kinsstis, and the traditional Treaty 7 territory and oral practices of the Blackfoot confederacy: Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, as well as the Îyâxe Nakoda and Tsuut’ina nations. We acknowledge that this territory is home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3 within the historical Northwest Métis homeland. Finally, we acknowledge all Nations – Indigenous and non – who live, work and play on this land, and who honour and celebrate this territory.
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