Our Mission

Parents Empowering Parents (P.E.P.) Society provides education, innovative programming, support and hope for individuals or families dealing with or concerned about substance abuse and addiction. We commit to improving effective, accessible treatment and positive outcomes for substance abuse and addiction 

Support to empower our members to achieve freedom from the effects of addiction on our families and ourselves.

Provide education, information, resources, and direction for families dealing with addiction.

Actively participate in addiction prevention in our community and our province.

About PARENTS EMPOWERING PARENTS (PEP) SOCIETY

Parents Empowering Parents was founded as a result of an increasing need for support and direction for families dealing with the effects of substance abuse of a loved one. 

The group continues to grow as word spreads throughout North America about P.E.P. On any given night, in each chapter meeting, there are 20-30 or more family members in attendance seeking help and hope. They leave each meeting a bit stronger, a bit more knowledgeable, and certainly more empowered, by gathering with others sharing their struggles and their successes. Our support programs focus on substance abuse, behavioural abuse and addiction in youth/adult children.. This is a family illness and it will take a healthy family to support and battle it. 

As of November 2020, PEP has added a permanent virtual group to remove barriers of location and to serve across Alberta or even Nation wide. Another resource added is a toll free number for our professionally managed support line 1.877.991.2737

Our preventative efforts reach from pre-teens to grandparents, recognizing that the impact of substance abuse  is on all ages and all family members. Addiction does not discriminate. It is not a respecter of ethnicity, social status, age or economic state. 

Through advocacy, support, and our commitment to education, PEP has become a highly respected resource in Canada.

We invite you to join our mission.