Turning Point Society

09/04/2026

Just a reminder that our office will be closed on Monday, September 7th for the Labour Day long weekend.

NightReach will still be running as scheduled from 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM.

We hope everyone has a safe and enjoyable long weekend!

09/01/2026

We’re honoured to work closely with the Red Deer Mustard Seed, collaboratively serving our community and its members. Thanks for coming out and for the heartfelt words friends.

09/01/2026

We’re so honored to have been nominated and chosen for donation at last nights 100 Men Red Deer event. 🎉

We have plans to expand our volunteer roles and capacity which will in turn expand our outreach worker and wrap around support capacity. Volunteers play a pivotal role in charities like ours by doing tasks such as sorting & organizing donations, preparing supply kits, as well as offering many other behind the scenes agency supports.
We’ll be looking to add an enthusiastic, motivated part time Volunteer Coordinator to support an upgrade of our volunteer programming, so stay tuned for more updates and an official call for applications !

Thank you to all the wonderful humans who came out and showed support. And so great to learn more about other charities doing great work in the community.

Thanks 100 Men who Care! 🫶🏼

08/31/2026

This is today. We hope to see you there.

We are accepting both monetary and item donations today, all of which goes into programming for vulnerable persons in our community. Highly needed items currently include : socks, men’s clothing, (new in package) underwear, unused hygiene items (ideally single serve but we can repackage), shelf stable snacks, water bottles, as well as weather attire as we approach the colder months to come.

We appreciate the community support and will see you soon.

Join us on Monday, August 31st from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. for International Overdose Awareness Day. We will be at Rotary Picnic Park to hold space for those lost to the opioid poisoning crisis and those currently living in it. We’ll be joined with Mom’s Stop the Harm, who will be hosting their annual Walk to Remember from Rotary Picnic Park to City Hall Park from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Other community organizations and agencies will be attending with tables set up to share information about their programming. We’ll be hosting a free BBQ, fundraising raffles, and speakers. As we do each year, we’ll have our memorial tree set up to hold the names of loved ones lost to this crisis. We hope to see you at this important event.

08/27/2026

Join us on Monday, August 31 for our International Overdose Awareness Day BBQ and enter our exciting Raffle Draw featuring over $1,300 in donated prizes!

A huge thank you to the incredible local businesses and community members who generously donated these prizes:

Arbonne Skincare Set – Valued at $400
Sad Lemon Club – 2-Hour Tattoo Gift Certificate – Valued at $300
Silver Cove – Gift Set – Valued at $250
4 Calgary Stampeders Tickets – Valued at $180
Red Deer Tattoo Co. – Tattoo Gift Certificate – Valued at $150
Stems Flower Shop – $50 Gift Card

Your generosity helps make this event possible, and we are so grateful for your support of our community.

All proceeds will support Turning Point Society's programs and services, helping us continue providing outreach, support, and resources throughout Central Alberta.

Come enjoy a free BBQ, connect with community, honour those we have lost, and take home an amazing prize.



Special Thanks To:
Silver Cove Red Deer • Sad Lemon Club • Red Deer Tattoo Co. • STEMS Flowers & Cafe • Our Anonymous Donors ❤️

08/08/2026

Red Deer Action Group Society has done it again! In late July and earlier this week, the Red Deer Action Group Society hosted fundraising bingos and gifted us with monetary donations. After July’s bingo, we received a $500 cheque. Red Deer Action Group has supported us in so many ways over the years, and we are so grateful for their continued support. They’ve supported many different agencies and organizations in Red Deer, leading to significant contributions in our community over the decades that they have operated. Because of them, many individuals have been positively impacted, and we are thankful for that.

08/06/2026

Join us on Monday, August 31st from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. for International Overdose Awareness Day. We will be at Rotary Picnic Park to hold space for those lost to the opioid poisoning crisis and those currently living in it. We’ll be joined with Mom’s Stop the Harm, who will be hosting their annual Walk to Remember from Rotary Picnic Park to City Hall Park from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Other community organizations and agencies will be attending with tables set up to share information about their programming. We’ll be hosting a free BBQ, fundraising raffles, and speakers. As we do each year, we’ll have our memorial tree set up to hold the names of loved ones lost to this crisis. We hope to see you at this important event.

07/30/2026

This past month has kept us busy with events. A few we’ve been to include QNSRD’s Pride in the Park Market on July 11th, The Mustard Seed’s 10th Anniversary BBQ on July 13th, and we walked in the Westerner Day Parade on July 15th.

Each year, we look forward to the QNSRD Pride in the Park Market. The environment is always welcoming and positive, with a lot of resource sharing and connection. This year we had a pair of small helping hands that helped us set up our booth (who also wanted in on the picture). For family friendly events like this one, we ensure content put out is appropriate and that there’s always staff monitoring our table to make sure the resources people are engaging with are age appropriate. For the kids, we had stickers, mini erasers and candy to hand out!

On the 13th we got to celebrate the Mustard Seed, one of our community partners, for their 10-year anniversary in our community. Their presence in the community has had an incredibly positive impact from ensuring our children have meals to sheltering some of our most vulnerable. Each week they invite one of our nurses into their wellness space to provide nursing care, including wound care, to those that need it but struggle to connect with traditional medical pathways. If they do need further medical care, we work with them to provide medical system navigation, referrals, and find solutions to the barriers they are experiencing that prevent medical care access.

Then, on the 15th, we walked in the Westerner Day Parade and felt nothing but love from the community. We are always grateful for the cheers and outpouring of love that we feel when we participate in the parade, and we thank everyone for their support.

07/29/2026

Medetomidine has been found in the unregulated drug supply across Canada – specifically, it is found in opioids like fentanyl. Medetomidine is a non-opioid sedative meant for animals, but since it is often combined with opioids, naloxone should be given in suspected poisonings. Medetomidine poisoning causes reduced respiratory rate, a slow heart rate, high blood pressure that drops to dangerously low blood pressure, confusion, and reduced responsiveness. If someone is unable to keep fluids down because of vomiting, or if they have a fast heart rate, chest pain, or trouble breathing, or if they are confused or disoriented, they need emergency medical care. Call 911.

Naloxone should still be given in a suspected poisoning because medetomidine is found in the unregulated opioid supply. The naloxone will not work for the medetomidine, but it will still work to reverse the effects of the opioids.

If you are a person using drugs, carry naloxone, never use alone, and start slow.

07/14/2026

Our office will be closed tomorrow AM as we are on the parade route and will be walking in the parade also. We’ll be open as usual for the afternoon.