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Print Version - WHERE TO GET HELP - EDMONTON
Keeping Safe
Community Police Stations
Victims' Services
Legal Issues
Frauds and Scams
Keeping Safe
- If you are in immediate danger or it is an EMERGENCY, call 911.
Emergency Deaf TTY: (780) 425-1231
- Capital Health Link: Health advice and information provided by nurses, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Phone: (780) 408-5465
TTY: (780) 496-8822
- Capital Health - Adult Mental Health Crisis Response Team: Provides 24-hour assessment, consultation, and stabilization services to adults experiencing a mental health crisis.
Phone: (780) 482-0222
- Family Violence Prevention Centre: Provides a variety of resources to individuals and families experiencing violence.
Location: 101-10010 105 Street
Phone: (780) 423-1635 or if busy call (780) 423-1716
- Community Services Assessment Lines: Available from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Phone:
- West End - (780) 944-5533
- East - (780) 496-5941
- Central and River Valley - (780) 496-4777
- South - (780) 944-5539
- Edmonton Seniors' Safe Housing: A safe place for abused seniors, NO charge to stay, temporary housing only.
Phone: (780) 702-1520
- Seniors Abuse HelpLine: For seniors or those concerned about a senior; provides information, problem-solving and referrals;
available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Phone: (780) 454-8888
Website: www.thesupportnetwork.com
- Society for the Retired and Semi-Retired:
Phone: (780) 423-5570
Website: www.srsr-seniors.com
Community Police Stations
- Downtown - 9620 103A Avenue
Phone: (780) 421-2200 (24-hour)
- South Division Station - 9710 51 Avenue
Phone: (780) 426-8200
- West Division Station - 16505 100 Avenue
Phone: (780) 426-8000
- North Division Station - 14203 50 Street
Phone: (780) 426-8100
- Edmonton Police Service Complaint Line
Phone: (780) 423-4567
Victims' Services
- Edmonton Victim Services
Phone:
- Downtown - (780) 421-2760
- Northside - (780) 426-8160
- Southside - (780) 426-8260
- West End - (780) 426-8060
- Family Violence Prevention Centre: Provides a variety of resources to individuals and families experiencing violence.
Location: 101-10010 105 Street
Phone: (780) 423-1635 or if busy call (780) 423-1716
- Abused Older Adult Support Group
Phone: (780) 496-5930
- Elder Abuse Intervention Team (E.A.I.T.): A collaborative effort of Catholic Social Services, Edmonton Police Service,
and City of Edmonton Community Services. Provides assessment, information and direct intervention in cases of elder abuse.
Phone: (780) 471-1122 and ask for the Elder Abuse Intervention Team Intake Worker
- Y.W.C.A. - Elder Abuse Peer Support Program: Individual and group counselling; Seniors Moving Beyond Abuse Support Group.
Phone: (780) 423-9922 Ext. 222
- Alberta Justice
Website: www4.gov.ab.ca/just/
- Edmonton John Howard Society
Location: 301-10526 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton, AB T5J 1Z7
Phone: (780) 428-7590
Website: www.johnhoward.org
- Elizabeth Fry Society of Edmonton
Location: 10523 100 Avenue, Edmonton, AB T5J 0A8
Phone: (780) 421-1175
Legal Issues
- Dial-A-Law: Pre-recorded legal information messages available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Phone: 1-800-332-1091 toll free
- Family Law Information Centre Edmonton
Location: Law Courts Bldg, 1A Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton, AB T5J 0R2
Phone: (780) 415-0404
- Lawyer Referral Service (operated by the Law Society of Alberta): Provides assistance to people who can afford to pay a lawyer but require help finding one.
Phone: 1-800-661-1095 toll free
- Legal Aid Society of Alberta: Provides legal services to financially eligible applicants.
Phone: (780) 427-7575
Website: www.legalaid.ab.ca
- Office of the Ombudsman: Conducts impartial investigations on receipt of written complaints from individuals who believe that they have been unfairly treated by the provincial government.
There are only two offices in Alberta.
Phone: (780) 427-2756
- Office of the Public Guardian: May be appointed legal guardian for dependent adults.
Phone: (780) 427-0017
Personal Directives Information Line: 1-888-515-0080 toll free
Website: www.seniors.gov.ab.ca/services_resources/opg/index.asp
- Office of the Public Trustee: Trustee for dependent adults.
Phone: (780) 427-2744
Website: www4.gov.ab.ca/just/trustee
Frauds and Scams
- Heads Up Fraud Prevention - Wise Owls
Phone: (780) 702-1232
Website: www.heads-up.ca
- RCMP - Scams and Frauds Information
Website: www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/scams/index_e.htm
- If In Doubt Check It Out - Resource Package: Seniors Fraud Awareness
Committee c/o Alberta Seniors; Alberta Seniors Information Line.
Phone: 1-800-642-3853 toll free
- Money Matters: Kerby Centre Information Line.
Phone: 1-866-265-0661 or (403) 265-0661
Return to Where to Get Help - Edmonton
Updated: November 3, 2003
© Legal Resource Centre of Alberta Ltd. 2002
OAK-Net: Abuse of Older Adults
Funded by the Alberta Law Foundation.
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