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Our Programs

24/7 Crisis and Intake Line

The 24 Hour Crisis and Intake Line is often the first point of contact for people and families facing domestic violence. We offer support 24 hours a day, every day of the year, in more than 200 languages.

In 2024, we answered 2,573 calls. That’s a 2% increase from the year before.

Jessie’s House

Jessie’s House is a 9,000 square foot emergency safe house with 11 rooms and 35 beds. It’s open to all genders and helps people and families leaving domestic violence. It’s also home to our Child & Youth Program and the 24 Hour Crisis and Intake Line. Our team provides support that is trauma-informed and led by each client’s needs. Most people stay between 31 and 60 days.

In 2024, we supported 208 children and 149 adults.

Eileen’s Place

Eileen’s Place is our second-stage housing program. It offers longer-term housing for people transitioning out of shelters like Jessie’s House. Survivors can stay for 6 months to 2 years while working toward their goals in a safe and supportive environment.

Supports include rent subsidies, food access, help finding long-term housing, affordable child-focused programs, employment readiness, education, cultural programming, peer groups, and counselling.

Eileen’s Place opened in April 2024. In our first year, we supported 3 adults and 9 children.

Outreach Program

Our Outreach Program supports people living in the community who are facing domestic violence, and it also provides continued care after someone leaves Jessie’s House. We also do education and community work with local partners.

In 2024, we supported 126 adults and 117 children.

Child & Youth Program

The Child & Youth Program supports kids connected to our shelter and outreach services. The program is about helping the whole family heal. It gives kids space to play and learn while allowing parents time to attend programs and appointments.

Inspire Program

Inspire is a school-based program run in partnership with Sturgeon Public Schools. It’s for students in grades 7 through 9 and covers topics like leadership, healthy relationships, bullying, body image, pressure, and wellness. The goal is to help students build self-worth and make healthy choices.

We launched the boys’ cohort in 2024 after two years of running the program for girls.

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This land has been welcoming guests for tens of thousands of years. We wish to acknowledge the many migrants who have made Canada their home. Many of these migrants are also Indigenous to their home countries and have also been colonized for hundreds of years. This legacy of colonization has left Indigenous peoples impoverished as the colonizers took away land and extracted rich resources. These migrants had to leave their countries to seek a better life for their families.

We recognize that all Albertans are Treaty people and have a responsibility to understand our history so that we can honor the past, be aware of the present, and create a just and caring future. We celebrate and value the resiliency, successes, and teachings that Alberta’s Indigenous people have shown us. We honour the legacy of colonization and its impacts on Indigenous Albertans and newcomers. Most of all, we are grateful to the Indigenous people of Alberta for sharing their land with us and blessing us with its abundance.

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