Extending a helping help
Calgary Counselling Centre is dedicated to finding ways to serve
those individuals and groups that experience linguistic or
cultural barriers in connecting with social support services in our community.
The key objectives of Calgary Counselling Centre's Diversity Program are:
- To provide effective counselling to a
community that is increasingly diverse.
- To connect with marginalized groups and individuals,
such as ethnic or racial minorities, newcomers to Canada,
the physically disabled or developmentally challenged,
and gay and lesbian people.
- To maintain a vibrant working relationship with
other community agencies to serve marginalized groups
and individuals.
- To build diversity within the Centre.
Calgary Counselling Centre
has the capacity to provide first language counselling in over 15 first languages (listed below). If we do not have the internal capacity to provide counselling in a specific first language, a translator will be engaged.
- Afrikaans
- Bosnian
- Cantonese
- Croatian
- English
- French
- German
- Gujarati
- Hindi
- Katchi
- Malayalam
- Mandarin
- Melanesian Pidgin
- Nepali
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbian
- Swahili
- Taiwanese
- Tamil
- Ukranian
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The Centre continues to increase connection and exchange
with international educational institutes.
Three students from mainland China's Fundan University and the Shanghai Children's
Medical Centre spent two weeks at the Centre as a part of their
international practicum experience. The Centre also hosts Residents from India, Argentina, China, and Iran.
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We have built lasting relationships with many local cultural and ethnic groups.
In 2004, the Centre provided counselling support and information forums for the:
Calgary Counselling Centre has made great strides in providing service to
marginalized groups and individuals. In 2004, the Centre was nominated for the
United Way Spirit of Gold Diversity Award, which recognizes an agency that
demonstrates commitment to ensuring services are accessible to the diverse
citizens of our community. However, there is still much work to be done
in this area and we must continue to challenge ourselves to step out of
comfort zones, to self-examine and to increase our self-awareness.
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