Rosewater Connection

Why Mental Health Matters

BGC Saskatoon understands that to live our core values and work towards our vision and mission, we need to provide a safe and supportive environment where people can access opportunities for their physical, emotional, spiritual, mental, and social wellbeing. These opportunities help to build resilience and improved mental health & wellbeing.

The Significance of Rosewater

Rosewater is proven to help balance the mind, heart, and emotions. This balance, without intervention, is often difficult to maintain for most people. Research shows that successful intervention is professional mental health support.

Our Observations & Commitment

We see our children, youth, parents, and staff carrying heavy mental health burdens, and we know we must walk beside them with the support that can ease their journey. Each person’s path is unique, but with the right mental health care, they can reach a place where their mental health is part of their story—not the definition of who they are.

We also know that mental health support is essential to quality of life, and that time is truly of the essence. Families cannot wait months or years for help. They need connection, compassion, and timely intervention.

That is why Rosewater Connection exists. Like rosewater—long valued for its soothing, restorative essence—this initiative offers a healing infusion of support to those who need it most. Rosewater Connection provides the gentle yet powerful care that helps individuals feel grounded, supported, and strengthened as they move toward wellness.

The Essence of Timely Support

BGC Saskatoon delivers vital programs and services to children, youth, and families—especially those who need us most. Many of the families we support are working hard to meet their basic needs, such as food and safe housing. For them, mental health support is often out of reach. When professional help isn’t affordable, they face waitlists that can stretch for months, sometimes more than a year.

Timely access to mental health care is essential to a person’s overall wellbeing. Rosewater Connection bridges that gap by providing the critical intervention and support families need when they are struggling.

Our Valued Partnerships

BGC Saskatoon partners with The Shift Counselling Services and Treehouse Child and Youth Counselling to provide professional mental health services and support through education, knowledge, stigma reduction, group training and group or individual sessions for our children, youth, families and employees.