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# Native Counselling Services of Alberta
- URL: https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/native-counselling-services-of-alberta/
- Published: 2026-03-02T23:20:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-02T23:20:58.000Z
- Author: Liam Sturgess
- Tags: Profiles, #docs, #organization, Organization, Canada, Alberta, #toc

**Native Counselling Services of Alberta (NCSA)** is a Canadian nonprofit organization based in Edmonton, Alberta.

## History

NCSA received a $15,500 grant from the Edmonton Community Foundation's Rapid Response Fund "to create a three-month outreach coordinator position and to purchase supplies to meet their staff’s and clients’ safety protocol needs" in the wake of the declared COVID-19 pandemic.[\[1\]](#fn1)

## Organization

NCSA is represented on the Indigenous Advisory Group of the [Action Committee on Modernizing Court Operations](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Action-Committee-on-Modernizing-Court-Operations), for which it received $62,300 from the [Department of Justice Canada](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Department-of-Justice-Canada).[\[2\]](#fn2)[\[3\]](#fn3)

### Personnel

| Name           | Position                                 | Notes |
| -------------- | ---------------------------------------- | ----- |
| Allen Benson   | Chief Executive Officer[\[4\]](#fn4)     | \-    |
| Marlene Orr    | President[\[5\]](#fn5)                   | \-    |
| Robyn Scott    | Director of Operations[\[6\]](#fn6)      | \-    |
| Cynthia Arcand | Edmonton Regional Manager[\[1:1\]](#fn1) | \-    |

## External links

- [Charity Data](https://www.charitydata.ca/charity/native-counselling-services-of-alberta/107764888RR0001/)
- [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/NativeCounsellingServices/)
- [Website](https://www.ncsa.ca/)
- [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwt3C%5Fs9zQW-TAfkChqVISA)

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1. Cockrall-King, J. (2020, July 6). *Critical Support During COVID-19.* Edmonton Community Foundation. <https://ecf.ca/community-stories/critical-support-during-covid-19/> [↩︎](#fnref1) [↩︎](#fnref1:1)
2. *Terms of Reference - Indigenous Advisory Group.* (2023, October 24). Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs Canada. <https://web.archive.org/web/20231120040325/https://www.fja.gc.ca/COVID-19/Terms-of-Reference-for-the-Indigenous-Advisory-Group-Mandat-du-groupe-consultatif-autochone-eng.html> [↩︎](#fnref2)
3. *Search Government Contracts over $10,000.* Government of Canada. Retrieved March 2, 2026, from <https://search.open.canada.ca/contracts/?sort=contract%5Fdate+desc&search%5Ftext=Action+Committee+on+Court+Operations&page=1> [↩︎](#fnref3)
4. *Restoring Court Operations in Northern, Remote and Indigenous Communities.* Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs Canada. Retrieved October 20, 2021, from <https://web.archive.org/web/20211020011239mp%5F/https://fja.gc.ca/COVID-19/Northern-Remote-and-Indigenous-Communities-Communautes-nordiques-eloignees-et-autochtones-eng.html> [↩︎](#fnref4)
5. Hunter, J. A., & Redman, D. G. (2024, December). *Indigenous Justice Strategy* (p. 47). Alberta Court of Justice. <https://albertacourts.ca/docs/default-source/pc/acoj-indigenous-justice-strategy---august-2023.pdf> [↩︎](#fnref5)
6. McDonald, L. (2023, June 21). *National Indigenous History Month.* Alberta Law Foundation. <https://albertalawfoundation.org/national-indigenous-history-month/> [↩︎](#fnref6)