Accolades

Awards

Platinum Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Medal
Awarded to Executive Director Lerena Greig, 2022.

Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Medal
Awarded to Maralyn Benay by the Lieutenant Governor Donald Ethell in honor of her advocacy for youth and for co-founding Parents Empowering Parents (PEP) Society: 2013.

People’s Choice Award
2nd Place, Wreath/Centerpiece Category, Festival of Trees: 2012. 3rd Place Tree Category, Festival of Trees: 2008, 2010.

Community Life Pride of Strathcona Award
Maralyn Benay, Tina Dow, & Audrey Holliday (PEP Co-Founders): 2011

Restorative Justice Awards Annual Achievement
2010

Minister’s Award for Municipal Excellence
Partnership Award for the Strathcona County Community Drug & Alcohol Strategy: 2006.

Nomination for a True Imagination Award
The Lieutenant Governor’s Circle of Mental Health and Addiction: 2012, 2013.

Nomination for The Duncan & Craig Laurel Awards
Recognizing the Innovation & Creativity of Not-for-Profit Organizations: 2006, 2009, 2019.

Accomplishments

PEP was instrumental in getting the PChAD (Protection of Children Abusing Drugs Act) legislation in place as a resource for parents in Alberta, July 2006.

Membership / Partnership

Alberta's Promise
2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013

CPAC
Community Partners in Action Committee: 2011, 2012, 2013

Sherwood Park & District Chamber of Commerce
2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013

AAMIMH
Associate Member of the Alberta Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health: 2012, 2013

Journeys of Hope

As our Red Deer Family Recovery Group approaches 1 year (April 1st start date) please know how many lives you have impacted and gave hope to in our very hard journeys.  Our facilitators are wonderful and PEP has truly saved my life and helped others - mother of a son on journey.
With PEP I learned that I needed to take care of myself and that it was ok to love me again.
I encourage others to reach out sooner. You are not alone and with the support of others and the knowledge you gain through PEP's Family Recovery Group, healing can begin.  You can find yourself again.

The greatest thing that PEP Family Recovery Group brings to my life is the feeling that I am not alone. Hearing others stories while crying and laughing together is my safe place to find healing.

We will make a slider so this testimonial might be there already on the existing site.

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