The following post was written by a guest blogger, the Youth4Change team at Calgary Communities Against Sexual Abuse (CCASA).
CCASA is a non-profit agency that offers education and support to sexual abuse and sexual assault survivors, their friends and families. Services we provide include:
- 24 hour support and information (free and confidential)
- Counselling to anyone over the age of 12 (free and confidential)
- Group Counselling (sliding fee scale)
- 24 hour hospital accompaniment
- Police and Court Education and Support (PACES)
Our team works towards advancing CCASA’s mission of providing leadership to impact the attitudes and actions around this issue in the youth community. Sexual violence is a hard issue to talk about and our goal is to engage youth about it in an open and healthy way. We believe the only way to prevent sexual violence is by debunking common myths and wrongly held ideas. Sexual violence is not inevitable. It’s our world. Sexual violence doesn’t belong in it.