The Alberta Seventh Step Society was established by Patrick Graham in Drumheller Institution.  November 1971. It functioned completely on a volunteer basis until November 1974, when it opened its first agency office with Canada Manpower funding. 

The Society was incorporated in June 1974, and since 1978, has been under the administration of a volunteer Board of Directors. The Community Residential Centre opened in Calgary in July 1977, and a second facility operated in Edmonton from February 1977 to February 1988. 

The agency provides a wide range of post, and pre-release services for offenders. The Alberta Seventh Step Society is a private, non-profit corporation, duly licensed and overseen by a Board of Directors. Groups and chapters are accountable to their parent company.