donate to rsac today to fund hope and healing

We provide trauma-informed counselling to children as young as five. Our 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 develop toolkits and resources to help them feel safe and supported, and see their own strengths and progress. By funding a children’s progress kit, you are helping a young person impacted by sexualized violence have all the tools they can to navigate healing. Progress kits include simple items like folders for artwork and writing, grounding tools and fidget toys, worksheets and positive affirmation cards. 

 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. 

 Your gift will support a client of RSAC as they navigate healing and coping using the skills learned in counselling. Mental health first aid kits include tools for grounding, self-soothing and regulations, like worry stones, fidgets, scent containers, and breathing tools. They also include affirmative messages, CBT-based worksheets and exercises, and resources/safety planning kits. Each kit is assembled of support items to work through moments of crisis, using best-practice and evidence-based therapeutic tools.
By funding this initiative, you are supporting someone through self-healing. 

 RSAC counsellors use best-practice approaches in counselling to help clients safely explore and process trauma. One unique approach is sand tray therapy, where clients of any age can use the figurines and sand to create a safe and contained reflection of their own life, have inner dialogue, explore their past and present experiences and traumas and gain self-awareness. As our therapists employ this therapy tool in a way that best meets the complex needs and experiences of clients, we are always seeking to add more tools to this therapeutic method. Your donation helps provide the figurines and symbolic items used in sand tray therapy. 

 Since 2019, RSAC has operated a satellite office in Moose Jaw, responding to the call for increased specialized mental health services in the community especially for children and youth. Every week, our specialized therapists hit the highway to ensure Moose Javians can access services when they need it and where they live. Your donation of $100 covers the weekly travel costs, and ensures we can keep our presence strong in Moose Jaw. 

 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. These trauma-informed approaches aim to foster healing, transformation, and hope for people as young as 5 at no cost to the individual. Your $120 donation covers the cost of one session of this therapeutic counselling. 

 EMDR (Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) is a gold standard psychotherapy approach used to treat trauma. EMDR works by helping individuals access traumatic memories in a safe setting, combining bilateral stimulation (BLS) and guided instructions. Accessing the memories helps people with processing and reducing the negative impact of past trauma.

RSAC provides EMDR counselling as an option, and invests in training to ensure our masters educated counsellors have the qualifications to responsibly provide this approach. EMDR counsellors use BLS tools like 'tappers' to deliver this therapy.  Currently, our office has only one unit, and as we grow, we hope to increase our inventory of EMDR tools. Your gift helps RSAC purchase these supplies.

 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 8 hours of 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.