Turning Point (formally the Central Alberta AIDS Network Society) was established on May 9th, 1988 as a community-based response to Central Alberta’s HIV/AIDS crisis. In addition to health promotion, the charity has since expanded its reach, incorporating programming specific to harm reduction, night reach, rural outreach, overdose prevention, and a women’s program. Today, Turning Point Society delivers harm reduction and STBBI prevention supplies, services, and programming to a wide range of vulnerable individuals across Central Alberta.

Turning Point is involved in seven main areas of work:

Health Promotion, supporting people living with HIV and/or Hepatitis C and their loved ones

Prevention, capacity-building and awareness to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted and blood borne infection (STBBI)

Mens Outreach, Gay, Bisexual and other men who have sex with men outreach capacity-building and awareness to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted and blood borne infection (STBBI)

Harm Reduction, supporting people to reduce harm associated with engaging in high risk behavior related to drug use and/or sex work

NightReach, mobile outreach in Red Deers downtown and parks which runs evenings 365 days/year

Community Action, educating and informing the community around us

The Womens Program, supporting street-involved women of reproductive age to access non-judgmental health and social supports.