After Hours Services
Distress Line of Southwestern Alberta - 403-327-7905 or toll free 1-888-787-2880
Crisis Intervention Team - Seven-Days-a-Week mobile support service that provides crisis intervention and stabilization. Crisis Intervention Team Triage line (403) 381-1116 or call the Distress Line above.
Community Crisis Beds- 24 Hour Community Stabilization Program for Individuals in crisis. Contact the Crisis Intervention Team Triage line at (403) 381-1116 for more information.
Crisis Intervention Team - Seven-Days-a-Week mobile support service that provides crisis intervention and stabilization. Crisis Intervention Team Triage line (403) 381-1116 or call the Distress Line above.
Community Crisis Beds- 24 Hour Community Stabilization Program for Individuals in crisis. Contact the Crisis Intervention Team Triage line at (403) 381-1116 for more information.
Resources By and For the Queer Community
- OUTreach - Resources for the Southern Alberta Community
- FORGE - National transgender anti-violence organization that works with transgender survivors of sexual assault, domestic and dating violence, and stalking. They can be reached at their helpline 414-559-2123 or online
- The Network/La Red - Survivor-led social justice organization that works to end partner abuse in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, SM, polyamorous, and queer communities. They can be reached at their toll-free hotline 800-832-1901, or online at tnlr.org.
- The Affirmative Couch - Offers training and community.
- Jacoby Ballard - Activism and yoga
- Queer in Alberta -"Kels Delamarter (she/her) talks to everyday Albertans who are living proudly in Calgary, Edmonton, and the smaller towns that lay between."
- What are Your Words? A Book About Pronouns - By Katherine Locke and Illustrated by Anne Passchier
- It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity - By Theresa Thorn an Illustrated by Noah Grigni
Resources for Activism, Allyship, and Becoming an Accomplice
Supporting Trans and Gender Diverse Folks
Frameworks and Skills for Advocacy Work
- Support legal challenges to anti-trans legislation/provincial policy - Skipping Stone and Egale
- How to be an Ally - Egale
- Support Trans Rights - Trans Action Alberta
Frameworks and Skills for Advocacy Work
- Revolutionary Love Project - Valarie Kaur
- Non-Violent Communication - Marshal Rosenberg
Financial Supports
Lethbridge Subsidy - Counselling funds may be available for counselling
Breaking Free Foundation - Offers grants for counselling
Breaking Free Foundation - Offers grants for counselling
Resources for Chronic Pain
- Arthritis life - Vlog by Cheryl Crow
- The Pain Pod - Podcast by the Chronic Pain Association of Canada
- Migraine Talks -Podcast by Migraine Canada
Resources for Healing From Abuse
- Chinook Sexual Assault Centre - Offers individual and group services to all genders experience sexual violence.
- YWCA Outreach - Offers support for folks navigating domestic violence and offers information in navigating legal systems.
- the sun and her flowers - Rupi Kaur
- Outside Child - Allison Russell
Neuro-diversity and Mental Health
- Dr. Kojo Sarfo - short reels that are easy and relatable
- DBT Skills Workbook by McKay, Wood & Brantley
- DBT Skills Website: https://dbtselfhelp.com/dbt-skills-list/mindfulness/
- Thriving With ADHD: Skills to Strengthen Executive Functioning & Overcoming Adult ADHD Symptoms by Phil Boisseire
- Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski
- Your Body is Not An Apology Workbook by Sonya Renee Taylor
- How to Make Stress Your Friend - Kelly McGonigal
- Turn Off Anxiety in Your Nervous System. - Better Help video to help you calm anxiety