Help is Just a Phone Call Away
If you have names and phone numbers of additional resources in your community, please forward them to Kelli Rolson or Alaina Cole at kelli.rolston@blackgold.ca or alaina.cole@blackgold.ca. They will be added to the list.
Linking People to Resources
Help is Just a Phone Call Away
AADAC Help Line – 1-866-332-2322
Adoption Options – 433-5656
Adoption information and support for adoptive parents, birth parents and reunions
Alberta Blue Cross – 498-8000
Alberta Health and Wellness – 427-1432
Alberta Home Adaptation Program – 427-5760
Alberta Mental Health Board– 427-4444
Edmonton Mental Health Services
Alberta Seniors Information Line – 427-7876
Alcoholics Anonymous – (24 hours) – 424-5900
ASSIST Community Services Center – 429-3111
Provides programs and services to persons new to Canada
Capital Health Link: – 408-5465 (LINKS)
24 hour information and advice on all health related concerns including illness, prenatal, and postpartum questions and concerns
Capital Health – Community Sector– 413-7900
Public Health – general inquiries
Catholic Social Services – 432-1137
Offers a variety of programs and services for children and families including adoption information, anger management, family counseling, programs for children and youth, parent/teen mediation and more. People of all faiths are welcome.
Changing Together – A Center for Immigrant Women – 421-0175
Offers information, referrals, family violence prevention workshops and numerous other programs to assist women who are new to Canada.
Child Abuse Hotline (24 hours) – 1-800-387-(KIDS)5437
Community Service Referral Line - 482-INFO (4636)
Edmonton and surrounding areas (information about available community services)
Compassionate Friends – 451-5381
This organization offers support to parents who are coping with the death of a child at any age.
Distress Line – 482-HELP (4357)
24 hour telephone support and referral service
Family Support for Children with Disabilities – 427-4354
Food Safety Information Society - 1-800-892-8333
Monday to Friday 9 to 5
Gamblers Anonymous – Edmonton – 463-0892
Gambling Help Line – 1-800-665-9676
Gateway Association for Community Living – 454-0701
Non profit organization that provides support and advocacy for individuals with developmental disabilities and their families.
Greater Edmonton Foundation (Housing for Seniors) – 482-6561
HEARTS (Helping Empty Arms Recover through Sharing) – 464-8436 or 464-3217
Support for Pregnancy Loss; a program of Parents Place
Kids Help Phone – 1-800-668-6868
Website – www.kidshelpphone.ca
Kids Kottage Foundation – Crisis Nursery – 944-2888
24 hour care for parents in crisis
Kidsafe Connection - 407-7250
Childhood Injury Prevention
Learning Disabilities Association of Alberta – Edmonton chapter – 466-1011
Website: ldaa.ca
Leduc Mental Health Clinic – 986-2660
Leduc FCSS Counseling – 980-7110
Mental Health Children’s Crisis Response Line – 427-4491
Mental Health Adult Crisis Response Team (24 Hours) – 482-0222
Misericordia Children’s Health Center – 930-5613
The Health Center offers classes for parents of preschool and elementary school aged children with challenging behaviors. Subsidies are available.
Missing Children Society of Canada – 1-80
0-661-6160
Multicultural Health Brokers Co-op – 423-1973
The Co-op provides health, education and family support to immigrant and refugee families in 15 different languages.
Poison and Drug Information Services – 1 – 800 -332-1414
RAINBOWS – The Foundation for Families in Transformation – 448-1180
Toll Free – 1-800-416-4673
Our mission is to help children, adolescents and adults in accepting, healing and moving forward after a death, divorce, separation or abandonment.
Ronald McDonald House – 439-5437
A home away from home for out of town families with seriously ill children in Edmonton hospitals
Salvation Army Family Service Center – 424-9222
Offers a variety of support services to families including counseling, an emergency food depot, and crisis support (suicide prevention)
Sexual Assault Center of Edmonton – 423-4121
SAGE – Seniors Association of Greater Edmonton – 423-5510
Society of Seniors Caring About Seniors – 465-0311
Suicide Prevention Line (Salvation Army) – 429-0230
TADA Edmonton Chapter of C.H.A.D.D. Canada – 406-5212
Children and Adults with Attentional Disorders Association E Mail – tadaedmonton@hotmail.com
Teen Suicide Prevention (Tuesday to Saturday 3:30 to 11:00 PM) – 412-2747
Terra Association
Prenatal Information and parenting assistance for teenage parents – 428-3772
The Support Network – 482-0198
Walk-in counseling, free drop in solution-focused therapy
Tourette Syndrome Support – 1-866-824-9764 (toll free)
National Website – tourette.ca
E Mail – TSEdChapter@tagline.cc
Victims Assistance Program – (Family Violence) – 422-0721
Shelters (all 24 hour access)
A Safe Place – 464-7233
Kids Kottage (crisis care nursery) – 944-2888
Lurana Shelter – 424-5875
Safehouse (street kids ages 13 to 19 who are at risk) – 474-9938
WIN House – 479-0058
Women’s Emergency Accommodation Center – 423-5302
Youth Emergency Shelter Society – 468-7070
Please forward either of us the names and phone numbers of resources in your community. They will be added to this list.
Thank you,
Kelli Rolston
Alaina Cole