ABOUT PACE CENTRE
Building Safe & Caring Communities Through Support & Education
Our Belief Statement
We believe individuals and groups dealings with distress, trauma, suicide, sexual, and physical abuse, have the right to access skilled, caring and professional services.
We believe that each person has dignity and deserves to be treated with respect, without discrimination.
We believe in an individual’s resiliency, ability to grow through crisis, ability to take control and responsibility for their lives, and choose healthy, respectful behaviors to others.
Though we do not condone certain behaviors, engaging in such behaviors does not negate that person’s innate worth.
Vision Statement
We envision healthy individuals and families within healthy, supportive communities.
Mission Statement
Our mission is to provide a confident, caring approach to helping people in crisis.
Target Statement
Our organization serves individuals and communities dealing with crisis and trauma in Northwest Alberta, past and present.
Aim Statement
We strive to develop an organization with skills, knowledge and resources in dealing with crisis, post traumatic stress, sexual abuse, child abuse, domestic violence and suicide. Also, to influence and educate communities to respond to individuals and victims with compassion and respect.
Pace Center History
Building Safe and Caring Communities Through Support and Education
- RCMP stats reveal an increase in Sexual Assaults in Grande Prairie and surrounding area. A steering committee is formed to identify strategies to address increasing needs
- Based on the steering committee’s intensive work, the first P.A.C.E Board of Directors is elected
- P.A.C.E (Providing Assistance, Counselling, and Education) opens its doors and starts seeing victims of sexual violence and abuse
- The first volunteers for the crisis line are trained
- Support for victims of Sexual Assault and Sexual Abuse programs are established
- First treatment groups for adults of sexual abuse as children are held
- Crisis Intervention, Sexual Abuse as Children programs, and individual counselling begin
- Expanding services-multipurpose crisis line established
- P.A.C.E becomes the sponsoring agency for the Suicide Prevention Center, providing referrals, education & networking to the Peace Region
- P.A.C.E establishes the Intra-Familiar Child Sexual Abuse treatment program
- P.A.C.E becomes the sponsoring agency for the C.A.R.E kit
- P.A.C.E expands the Child Abuse Treatment program, integrating services, non-offending parents & offenders
- Hosted first of 3 regional conferences addressing northern communities responding to physical and sexual violence
- P.A.C.E offers its first information group
- The “Breakfast Club” is established for at-risk youth
- P.A.C.E becomes a founding member of the AB Association of Sexual Assault Centers (AASAC), now the Association of Alberta Sexual Assault Services (AASAS)
- P.A.C.E integrates the Family Support program consisting of in-home support workers, youth workers and drivers for families with Child Welfare Status
- Suicide Prevention begins offering the Men’s Support Group
- P.A.C.E implements parenting groups for parents of children with special needs
- P.A.C.E develops the “Cost of Empathy” workshops for child welfare supervisors across Alberta
- P.A.C.E receives accreditation for Child Welfare programs
- P.A.C.E partners with the Muttart Foundation to bring vicarious trauma expertise to our region
- P.A.C.E registers the Critical Response team in the Rural Crisis Int. program
- P.A.C.E shuts down multipurpose crisis line when provincial line is established
- The Bike 4 Life Fundraising Campaign is established
- P.A.C.E begins offering the Women’s Support Group
- P.A.C.E starts 5-week Trauma Support Group
- P.A.C.E starts the Community Treatment Program
- P.A.C.E begins offering the 17-week Caring Dads program
- P.A.C.E starts Monitored Exchange
- P.A.C.E becomes the sponsoring agency for the Caribou Child & Youth Centre, one of only 3 Child & Youth Advocacy Centres in Alberta
- P.A.C.E establishes the 15-week Intergenerational Healing: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Parenting Group
- P.A.C.E undergoes a rebranding process to more accurately reflect its role in the region, becoming Pace Community Support, Sexual Assault and Trauma Centre (Pace Centre)
- Pace hosts the first Grande Prairie Walk A Mile In Her Shoes Campaign in conjunction with Sexual Violence Awareness Month
- P.A.C.E. and the Caribou Child & Youth Centre co-present their first regional conference, providing educational training supports for service providers addressing issues of child maltreatment
- In partnership with the Crown Prosecutors office, RCMP, HIV North, Alberta Health Services and Crime Prevention, Pace establishes the first Sex Trade Offender Program (STOP) in the region, modelled on the Centre to End All Sexual Exploitation (CEASE) STOP program in Edmonton.
Pace Centre Funders
Building Safe and Caring Communities Through Support and Education