The Grand Centre Lions Club presented the Stepping Stones Crisis Centre with a $25,000 donation last Wednesday. The funds are earmarked for specific projects to teach life skills and improve quality of life for the centre’s future residents and clients. Specifically, the money will support a community garden space, a pergola over a bench which […]
Local organizations working to overcome family violence November is Domestic Violence Awareness Month in Canada, also recognized in Alberta as Family Violence Prevention Month. Violence and abuse within families or between intimate partners have obvious damaging effects on the direct victims. Like most social problems, domestic violence also has consequences that ripple through entire communities. […]
Stepping Stones Crisis Society has begun construction on a new facility. Stepping Stones, formerly Dr. Margaret Savage Crisis Centre, offers short-term emergency accommodations and other programs for women and their children who are struggling with an unhealthy or abusive relationship or have left one. The new facility will bring all of the society’s existing services—including […]
A new four-storey complex for Stepping Stones Crisis Society (SSCS) in Cold Lake is part of a funding announcement made by the Alberta Government March 9. Alberta’s Affordable Housing Partnership Program is providing $54 million to support 17 projects in nine communities across the province. More than 600 new affordable housing units will be built […]