Community
Help the Child Advocacy Centre sell one Dream Home Lottery ticket package for every child served on Wednesday


Central Alberta Child Advocacy One Day Challenge: One Day. One Ticket. One Child.
Are you up for the Challenge? The CACAC One Day Challenge is in efforts to reach our goal of recognizing all of the children we have supported since opening; to recognize the 426 children that have walked through our door.
We need your help! Our Dream Home Lottery is not just about the big beautiful home, or the many amazing prizes – it is about supporting the children and youth of Central Alberta affected by child abuse. On Wednesday, February 6th every 2019 Dream Home Lottery Ticket Package sold will be in recognition of the brave children that we have the served since opening – and all the children we will help in the future. Our goal: 426 Ticket Packages for the 426 Children and Youth cases we have supported.
The Challenge will take place all day and will be tracked with our giving thermometer. Follow us on our journey to make our goal on all of our Social Media Platforms: Facebook – Twitter – Instagram: @CentralABCAC
There will be Facebook lives throughout the day, including interviews with volunteers and the staff, along with the ability to get social to show support! Posts can be shared and tagged to challenge other friends online, through email and by a simple text! A custom Facebook Frame will also be available for all who would like to participate and give support plus show that you took the challenge!
“One day – that is all we are asking for. We want people to realize exactly why we’re doing this, this Dream Home Lottery – it is for the courageous kids that have to come to our Centre everyday because someone has hurt them. Each ticket package sold gives back the promise and possibility of a healthy future & recognizes the adversity these children innocently faced.” Mark Jones, CEO
Ticket Packages start at only $35 with over $1.8 Million in prizes to be won! To purchase tickets online or for more information visit our lottery website: cacaclottery.ca or call: 1-833-475-4402. Tickets can also be purchased directly at the Dream Home at 57 Larratt Close, Red Deer (from Wednesday-Sunday, 1-5pm).
Will you take the challenge? Visit our Event page for more details on our One Day Challenge:
https://www.facebook.com/events/303537267180756/
Proceeds from the Dream Home Lottery are in support of the Central Alberta Child Advocacy Centre. Every ticket sold supports the CACAC and is an investment in the promise and possibility of a healthy future for our children and our community.
These lottery homes are always beautiful show homes, but this one just might be a step above….
Someone is going to win all this in March.
For all of us who don’t win, there are many other prizes to see on the lottery website.. cacaclottery.ca. These include 2 vehicles, a $20,000 play centre, a $15,000 diamond ring, groceries for a year, and fuel for a year! Cut off for the early bird cash prizes of $50,000, $25,000, and $10,000 is January 15th.
Click to visit the Central Alberta Child Advocacy Centre Dream Home Lottery
Phone: 1-833-475-4402
Community
Empowered, Happy and Healthy


Michelle lost a kidney to cancer 20 years ago. Her blood pressure has been challenging to keep in a healthy range since. A busy life with little focus on healthy got her in trouble. In late December 2020, she ended up in emergency with extremely high blood pressure in the 200/150 range and a blood sugar of 25. She was very sick. She had a second similar episode in January. At that time, she was let go from her job. This turned out to be the best thing that happened as she now had time to focus on her health.
The RDPCN family nurse recommended she attend Diabetes the Basics as well as providing her with ongoing one-to-one support for several months. She also got connected to a weight management program, supervised exercise and Heartwise.
Fast forward to 18 months, she has decreased her clothing size from 20 to 14. Her blood sugar is now 7 and her blood pressure is in the range of 138/95. Great improvements!
She is back to work. She walks about an hour per day and she feels amazing! She has used the portion control plate to help improve her eating habits. She is eating way better and enjoying it. One thing she could not give up was Pepsi. She used to have at least 3 cans per day. Now she uses Diet Pepsi in much smaller volumes, but she cannot get by without some Pepsi. Long-lasting insulin and using the Libre sensor have been great tools to help her live healthily. She feels very empowered, happy and healthy!!
Learn more about the Red Deer Primary Care Network. Click here.
Alberta
Red Deer Recovery Community will offer hope for residents from Central Alberta and around the world


Central Albertans won’t be the only ones paying close attention to the official opening of the Red Deer Recovery Community next month. According to Marshall Smith, Chief of Staff to Premier Danielle Smith, jurisdictions from across North America will be looking to the Red Deer Recovery Community for potential answers to their own issues. Red Deer Recovery Community will be the first of 11 the province is opening over the coming months.
Cities across North America and beyond have been battling an addictions crisis, and losing. As the number of homeless people and the number of fatal overdoses continues to rise, cities are looking for new solutions. After years of slipping further behind, Alberta has decided on a new approach to recovery and Marshall Smith has been leading the charge.
Smith is a recovering addict himself. A political organizer from BC, he once worked for former Premier Gordon Campbell. His own crisis started with alcohol, then moved to cocaine dependency before he eventually succumbed to methamphetamine use. The successful political operative found himself without work and living on the street for over four years. Eventually he benefited from a 35 day stay in a publicly funded recovery centre in BC.
Former Alberta Premier Jason Kenney brought Smith to Alberta to head up the UCP’s addictions and recovery file. His personal experiences and incredible comeback story are at the heart of Alberta’s new approach.
While the success of recovery programs vary, Marshall Smith and Dr. Christina Basedow of the Edgewood Health Network (operators of Red Deer Recovery Community) say with the right treatment and the right amount of time, they expect a very high rate of successful recoveries. Smith says the province won’t give up on patients, even if some have to go through more than once.
The Recovery Community is central to this new approach, but patients who will be able to stay for up to a year, will need somewhere to go when they leave. This week the province also announced the Bridge Healing Transitional Accommodation Program in Edmonton. This “second stage” housing will ensure former addicts have a place to stay upon leaving addiction treatment centres. This will be their home in the critical days following treatment when they need to reestablish their lives by finding work or educational opportunities.
Red Deer Mayor Ken Johnston feels the 75 bed Recovery Community will be transformation for Central Alberta. Mayor Johnston says all Central Albertans will play an important role in helping former addicts when they leave the Recovery Community.
Construction of the Red Deer Recovery Community is all but complete.
Thursday, municipal and provincial politicians toured the facility and were introduced to the operators of the new facility. Dr Christina Basedow, Western VP of Edgewood Health Network teamed up with Nicholas Milliken, Alberta’s Mental Health and Addiction Minister, to take questions about operations.


Red Deer South MLA Jason Stephan, Red Deer Mayor Ken Johnston, Dr. Christina Basedow, Minister Nicholas Milliken, Red Deer North MLA Adriana LaGrange
Premier Danielle Smith made the trip to Central Alberta to offer support for the project and see the facility first hand.


In the days leading up to an official opening expected in February, Edgewood Health Network is finalizing the admission process which will see the first batch of up to 75 people suffering addictions moving into single and double occupied rooms.


Typical double occupancy room at Red Deer Recovery Community
The new 75-bed facility, will begin accepting residents battling addictions in February. Those residents will stay for up to a full year accessing medications, programming and developing life skills.
In the meantime the province expects a recovery industry will be developing in Red Deer including second stage housing opportunities and counselling.
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