WHEN YOU DONATE THIS HOLIDAY, YOU DON'T JUST PROVIDE FUNDS - you fund healing

RSAC offers counselling to children as young as 5 years old. Our specialized therapist uses their extensive knowledge, experience, and training in therapeutic play and child EMDR to help children heal from trauma. As children navigate their time in counselling, they require special tools and resources to communicate and navigate healing - your donation helps us stock our play therapy space with needed tools - from sensory items to art supplies, EMDR equipment, progress kits, and so much more. Your donation helps a young person impacted by sexualized violence have all the tools they can to navigate healing.

 RSAC offers our clients a free resource library filled with books on topics of sexual abuse, childhood abuse, neuroscience, trauma, substance use, mental health, colonialism, and more. We strive to offer a wide variety of resources for our clients and their unique experiences and perspectives. To ensure our resource library is up to date with the best-practices and knowledge in psychotherapy, and ensure we have resources for anyone who wishes it, you can donate to help us purchase new books and resources. 

RSAC is committed to being a low-barrier and accessible agency for those impacted by sexualized violence in our community. Our counselling services are free to everyone, and we work to address any barriers that prevent people from accessing those services - a big one is ensuring people can efficiently and safely get to and from their appointments. Your donation covers our average monthly cost for travel expenses, including taxi fare to get clients to appointments, hospital, or police, and when needed, ensuring our counsellors and educators can get to appointments in other communities in Southern Sask.

 Professionalism, ethics, and best-practice drives the service delivery of RSAC, and our specialized counselling services reflect this. RSAC employs Masters educated counsellors who are educated and experienced specifically in sexualized violence. Therapists use expert-informed and gold-standard trauma therapy approaches, including EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, Play Therapy, DBT, and CBT. This expert care is delivered free of charge for every client. Your donation helps ensure we can continue offering free services for all.

 Did you know we operate a 24/7 crisis, support, and information line for people impacted by sexual violence? This work is only possible thanks to generous, compassionate, and trauma-informed community volunteers. Volunteers support clients on the phone, and via police or hospital accompaniments related to sexual assault. To ensure volunteers can do this work, RSAC invests in extensive training for each volunteer, and helps fund additional training for volunteers when possible. Your $200 gift covers the costs of training a volunteer, and helps us recruit, retain, and appreciate compassionate and caring volunteers.