Provides services to educate and empower clients to make informed decisions about drug and alcohol use or gambling
Residential Treatment Program- Provides a five-week intensive substance abuse treatment program with the option of flexible length of stay for youth requiring further support
- Through a strength-based philosophy, incorporates skills from dialectical-behavioural therapy (DBT) with a focus on substance use education, helping youth change harmful behaviours through skill acquisition, and building on their existing strengths and capacities
- Incorporates a harm reduction model which works to build a youth's capacity to reduce the harms and life interfering behaviours associated with substance use
- A holistic approach is woven through the program in order to help strengthen the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual capacities of a person
- Includes group therapy, education sessions, life skills development, leisure and recreation opportunities, an introduction to self-help groups, Aboriginal spiritual programming, and relapse prevention work
- Multi-disciplinary team consists of addiction counsellors, youth workers, family counsellor, therapeutic recreationist, gambling counsellor, medical supports, teacher, and a spiritual advisor
- Resource people from the community supplement the program, including mental health professionals, and Aboriginal liaisons
Community Based ServicesCoordinates services with Thunder Bay Integrated Youth Programs (UTURN) to provide the following:
- Education and screening
- Drug and alcohol assessment
- Brief individual counselling
- Youth gambling
- Early intervention program
- Early prevention program
- Community presentations
- Continuing care program
Wheelchair Accessible