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.

Knowing that my FREEDOM depends on my thoughts and actions, I hereby PLEDGE:

• To face and accept the truth about myself,
• To maintain my FREEDOM,
• To become a useful member of society,
• To help others as I am now being helped.

1. Facing the truth about ourselves and the world around us, we decided we needed to change.
2. Realizing that there is a power from which we can gain strenght, we decided to use that power.
3. Evaluating ourselves by taking an honest self-appraisal, we examined both our strenghts and our weaknesses.
4. Endeavouring to help ourselves overcome our weaknesses, we enlisted the aid of that power to help us concentrate on our strengths.
5. Deciding that our FREEDOM is worth more than our resentments, we are using that power to help free us from those resentments.
6. Observing that daily progress is necessary, we set an attainable goal towards which we can work each day.
7. Maintaingin our own FREEDOM, we pledge ourselves to help others as we have been helped.