If you are in immediate danger, please call 911. For non-emergency help, please call our crisis line 403-694-1094. For crisis support after hours please call Alberta's One Line for Sexual Violence at 1-866-403-8000 (available daily 9 am to 9 pm).
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October 10, 2025

October is Child Abuse Prevention Month, an important time to recognize the role that we can all play in preventing child abuse. This is an important issue which impacts many of us. In fact, one in three Albertans will experience sexual violence or abuse before they turn 18. Observed annually, Child Abuse Prevention Month is an opportunity to raise awareness about the prevalence of child abuse in our community and empower individuals to become advocates for children in need.

October 10, 2025

Our tattoo raffle is live.Tattoo’s may be only skin deep, but when you enter our Beyond the Surface tattoo raffle, you show support that comes from the heart. The Child and Youth Advocacy Centre (CCYAC) invites you to go Beyond the Surface and help provide support and services to children when they need it most. You could win one of 10 fabulous prizes donated by a very talented group of local tattoo artists.

August 28, 2025

In recognition of International Day of Charity on September 5, we welcome two stalwart supporters of the Chinook Sexual Assault Centre for a special panel discussion on charity. Our guests Amanda Engler and Michele Montgomery talk about the important work of charities, about their reasons for supporting charities, and why businesses and individuals should get involved. To watch click here

August 25, 2025

The Chinook Sexual Assault Centre spoke to local media recently about an increase in funding from the Government of Alberta for the Chinook Child and Youth Advocacy Centre. Check out the local coverage by clicking the links below. Lethbridge Herald Global Lethbridge (story at 3:57)

July 24, 2025

#WeBelieveSurvivors Today’s not guilty verdict for all five accused in the Hockey Canada players trial in London, Ontario is a profound setback for all survivors of sexual assault. This outcome is not only devastating for the individual survivor in this case, but reverberates across communities, undermining the courage it takes to come forward and driving home, once again, how the voices and lives of women and girls are too often discounted.

July 21, 2025

Meet Link II, the new Accredited Facility Dog at the Chinook Child and Youth Advocacy Centre (CCYAC). In this episode of our podcast Voices in the Wind, we welcome Baylee Schmidt, Supervisor with the CCYAC and Link’s handler. Baylee will talk about the impact Link has made with the kids he works with and how he adds to the welcoming environment at the CCYAC. We’ll also speak to Meredith Areskoug, Communications Manager with the Pacific Assistance Dogs Society (PADS), the organization which provided Link II to our organization.

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About CSAC

Our Commitment of Service

Chinook Sexual Assault Services is committed to transparency in our service, through honest, respectful and factual representation of how we serve people and use public funds.

Registered as a society under the Society’s Act of Alberta. Incorporation Number 5020314174. As of April 1, 2019, the Chinook Sexual Assault Centre has been granted the privilege of charitable status through the Canada Revenue Agency. Charitable number 72641 0517 RR0001

The Chinook Sexual Assault Centre acknowledges that we are settlers on the traditional territories of the people of the Sik sik ait sitapi or the Blackfoot Confederacy. Today, four nations make up Sik sik aitsi tapi: the Kainai Nation (Blood Tribe), the Piikani Nation, the Siksika Nation in southern Alberta, as well as the Blackfeet Tribe in northern Montana. As both the traditional and current Land Keepers of this area, the Blackfoot Nations have welcomed people from other Indigenous territories, including all signatory Nations of Treaty No. 7, members of the Métis Nation of Alberta Region 3, and non-Indigenous people who have come to call this area home. Our work includes acting on Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation framework with continued learning and action to address deep-rooted systems of oppression and racism. We stand committed to the advancement of equity, diversity and inclusion for all people; for the health and well-being of our community.