ONE ON ONE SUPPORT FOR YOUTH AND YOUNG ADULTS, AGED 13-25
Anam Rural Youth Provides One On One Support With:
- Suicidal Ideation
- Mental Health
- Self Harm
- Trauma
- Bullying
- Parent Conflict
- High Conflict Divorce
Anam (On-um) Rural Youth Association is a mobile mental health support service, providing a trauma informed, crisis intervention, psychological first aid approach to vulnerable, at risk, high-risk youth, aged 13+, and young adults, in the rural communities of Central Alberta.
We provide one on one support to those struggling with Suicidal Ideation, Mental Health, Self Harm, Trauma, Bullying, Parent Conflict, & High Conflict Divorce.
We meet our clients where they are at in their own community, while also providing food and personal hygiene items as needed.
Our support is connection focused, while building relationship and trust, with the core principle; Trauma Informed.
We bring our clients for something to eat or drink while providing our psychological first aid approach, support services. This enables us to strengthen connection ensuring our clients feel comfortable, safe and secure, while aiding in their self-regulation.
We support our clients in understanding the reasons behind their behaviour in conversations around brain development, impacts of early childhood experiences and traumas on the brain.
We are not a counselling or therapy service but a safety net for those who should be accessing those services but for some reason can’t/won’t access them, is on a waiting list for a counsellor or therapist, or for those who are accessing those services but require additional psychological support in between those professional appointments.
Early childhood trauma profoundly impacts brain development and a child’s ability to form attachments. High risk youth typically cannot identify a healthy adult in their lives and are not only coping with early childhood trauma but facing ongoing rejection, abandonment and violence. By eliminating barriers youth and young adults face when needing professional support, meeting them where they are at, in an environment where they are not triggered, we are telling them that they matter too, that we value them and that they are worth the effort.
“I can talk to you where I couldn’t talk to anyone before. You explain things in a way that makes sense.”
Early childhood trauma profoundly impacts brain development and a child’s ability to form attachments. High risk youth typically cannot identify a healthy adult in their lives and are not only coping with early childhood trauma but facing ongoing rejection, abandonment and violence. By eliminating barriers youth and young adults face when needing professional support, meeting them where they are at, in an environment where they are not triggered, we are telling them that they matter too, that we value them and that they are worth the effort.
Our Vision
Empower youth and young adults to recognize their full potential.
Our Mission
Anam engages with marginalized & at-risk youth and young adults in building capacity for them to break negative cycles and behaviours fostering their ability to recognize their worth.
“I wish I found you sooner. I’ve done the hotlines, I’ve done lots of different agencies, you’re the first one that actually hears me.”
Thank You to Our Donors
Including branches in Blackfalds, Bentley, Bashaw, Innisfail, Ponoka, Rimbey, Sylvan Lake, Three Hills and Servus Credit Union Corporate
The Stendie Family
The Buchman Family
The Rellis Family
Blackfalds Bulldogs Foundation
Blackfalds Bulldogs Foundation
The Stendie Family
The Buchman Family
The Rellis Family
Including branches in Blackfalds, Bentley, Bashaw, Innisfail, Ponoka, Rimbey, Sylvan Lake, Three Hills and Servus Credit Union Corporate
