Alberta Gamblers Anonymous welcomes you to our website. We are a nonprofit, self-supporting fellowship of recovering compulsive gamblers who meet regularly to help each other recover from the disease of compulsive gambling. Our guides are the 12 Steps of Recovery and the 12 Steps of Unity of Gamblers Anonymous.

The Support Network strengthens and supports individuals and families seeking resources, experiencing distress, or looking to contribute to the well-being of the community.

The National Addictions Awareness Week campaign will promote an addictions free lifestyle for communities, families and individuals by enabling communities to develop activities which increase knowledge and awareness of addictions and how addictions can be addressed.

Our House is an Addiction Recovery Centre, whose sole purpose is to provide an environment where individuals with addictions can embark on a recovery process directed towards a meaningful, productive lifestyle.

Poundmaker's Lodge Treatment Centre, is an accredited addiction treatment centre near Edmonton, Alberta.  Established in 1973, Poundmaker's Lodge has been a leader in the provincial, national and global addiction treatment community.  Poundmaker's Lodge accepts all peoples from all walks of life as outlined in its mission statement.  Through concepts based in the cultural and spiritual beliefs of traditional First Nations peoples in combination with 12-Step, abstinence based recovery, Poundmaker's Lodge offers a holistic treatment experience that focuses on the root causes of addiction and empowers people in their recovery from addiction.

Aventa is a respected leader in the field of addiction treatment for women. Our programs work. Roughly 99% of clients report abstinence or improvement, with two-thirds reporting abstinence in the first three months after treatment.

An orientation session is held with each new admission. This session serves as an informal presentation of the treatment program. This session allows staff and the individual to discuss expectations, answer questions about the treatment program and address other concerns the individual may have.

The Walter A. "Slim" Thorpe Recovery Centre Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing client centred and community based addiction services.

The Alberta Gaming Research Institute is a consortium of the University of Alberta, University of Calgary, and the University of Lethbridge. Its primary purpose is to support and promote research into gaming and gambling in the Province of Alberta.

To enhance the health of Manitobans by reducing the harm of alcohol, other drugs and gambling through leadership in education, prevention, rehabilitation and research.

Throughout this site, there are pages full of help, support and advice for problem and compulsive gambling and recovery from it.

The emphasis at the George Spady Centre is on the stabilization and restoration of clients' health in an accepting and non-judgemental atmosphere. We believe that people are entitled to be treated with respect and dignity whatever their condition may be when arriving at the Centre.

Edmonton Women's Shelter Ltd. (EWS), most commonly known as WIN House, is a non-profit agency operating two shelters, WIN House I and WIN House II. The WIN Houses are for women with children or without children, who have experienced physical, emotional, economic, or spiritual abuse from their husbands or intimate partners. The Edmonton Women's Shelter started when a group of concerned citizens met in 1968 to consider the growing problem of homeless women in Edmonton. In 1970, they opened an overnight emergency shelter in the basement of All Saints Cathedral. On September 26, 1973, EWS became incorporated. WIN I opened in 1978 and WIN II in 1982. The shelter operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. EWS has been serving women and children experiencing domestic violence for 34 years.

The Youth Emergency Shelter Society has a strong history of serving youth at risk in a caring, compassionate and concerned manner and, despite the setbacks and challenges of delivering these programs, we have provided an enormous amount of excellent service to the youth of Edmonton.

Since its founding in 1907, the Edmonton YMCA has provided health and wellness programs as an integral part of its mission to help people build a healthy spirit, mind and body. While many people may be aware of this particular aspect of the YMCA and may have experienced its benefits, our objective to enrich and enhance the lives of members of our community reaches even farther.

Neighbour helping neighbour. By offering help to people who need it, Bissell Centre gives hope to those living on low incomes in Edmonton. Located in the heart of Edmonton's inner city, Bissell Centre offers a wide range of services with the goal of giving people the opportunity and the means to make positive choices for their future and that of their children, and helping them to be as self reliant as possible.

Saskatchewan Health co-ordinates the efforts of health regions, government departments, community groups and the gaming industry to provide services related to the prevention, education and treatment of gambling problems.

The primary focus of research in the Addictive Behaviours Laboratory is substance abuse and gambling addictions. Projects in this lab are focused on various aspects of the psychology and physiology of gambling behavior. As well, research is conducted into the clinical condition of pathological gambling and potential treatment approaches.

The Journal of Gambling Issues offers an Internet-based forum for developments in gambling-related research, policy and treatment as well as personal accounts about gambling and gambling behaviour. Through publishing peer-reviewed articles about gambling as a social phenomenon and the prevention and treatment of gambling problems, it is our aim is to help make sense of how gambling affects us all.

The Centre is committed to the advancement of knowledge in the area of youth gambling and risk-taking behaviours, through the development of both basic and applied research. Members of the Centre and our International Advisory Board are engaged in a multitude of research projects directly addressing youth gambling problems and that of co-occurring disorders. As part of our broader mandate to understand youth gambling, the Center is also engaged in training, treatment, prevention, information dissemination, and policy development.

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