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Offers a methadone maintenance program for opiate dependence based on an intensive outpatient model, over a 12-24 month period

Services include:

• Initial intake screening procedure
• Signed treatment contract
• Focused medical examination
• Appropriate lab tests
• Initial and ongoing supervised urinalysis
• Weekly group and individual therapy
• Regular medical follow-up and supervision
• Regular daily Methadone dosing
• Treatment of substance use related illness and diseases such as Hepatitis C and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection
• After care program

Also offers onsite:

• Diabetes Outreach and Screening Clinic, in partnership with the Dryden Native Friendship Centre
• Needle Exchange Program, in partnership with the Northwestern Health Unit
• Naloxone Overdose Response Program, in partnership with the Northwestern Health Unit - a lifesaving medication that can quickly restore the breathing of a person who has overdosed on heroin or prescription opioid pain medication

• Offers opioid agonist therapy (methadone or Suboxone) for individuals overcoming opiate dependence (heroin, oxycontin, morphine, fentanyl, etc)
• Provides an intensive outpatient harm reduction program designed to reduce risk to ones self and society, maintain stable lifestyle, eliminate withdrawal symptoms, improve self esteem, health and overall quality of life

Services include:

• Initial intake screening procedure
• A signed treatment contract
• Focused medical examination
• Appropriate lab tests
• Initial as well as ongoing supervised urinalysis
• Weekly group and individual therapy
• Regular medical follow-ups and supervision
• Regular methadone/Suboxone dosing
• Treatment of substance use related illness and/or diseases (such as Hepatitis C and HIV infection)
• After care program

Also offers onsite:

• Needle Exchange Program
• Naloxone Overdose Response Program - a lifesaving medication that can quickly restore the breathing of a person who has overdosed on heroin or prescription opioid pain medication

Provides a 9-bed residential treatment facility and support services for adolescents with alcohol and substance use difficulties combined with mental health or behavioural issues

• Offers a 90-day substance use treatment program with a focus on culturally relevant programs, counselling and therapy
• Operates an on site school with qualified teaching staff to allow residents of the Centre to continue with academic studies
• Coordinates cultural naming ceremonies, feasts, sweat lodges and circles through the supervision of traditional elders
• Promotes greater responsibility and involvement of the family members in the adolescent's life

Provides education and counselling focused on:

• Developing a balance between the emotional, spiritual, mental, physical and social aspects of an individual's life
• An individual's identity, belonging and sense of direction in life
• Developing a healthy lifestyle, free of alcohol and substance use
• Teaching relevant life skills

Aftercare Program

• Provides a referral to another clinician, elder or service provider three weeks prior to discharge who will continue to provide service for 30 days after discharge
• Offers an aftercare support group once per week for as long as needed
• Offers continued access to cultural ceremonies

Also provides:

• Designated child welfare beds at the treatment facility for First Nation's communities requiring child placement

Provides individual and group counseling for those who are experiencing problems in various areas of living

Addictions Counseling

• Provides assessments for various addictions for individuals
• Conducts case management studies
• Offers referrals to appropriate helps
• Provides therapeutic intervention and aftercare
• Provides public education to raise awareness of addictions

Family Violence

• Addresses and provides counseling for all forms of family violence including elder abuse, child and spousal abuse and sexual assault
• Provides referrals to other community services

Individual Counseling

• Provides counseling for many life issues including bereavement, mental illness, disability and traumatic childhood issues

Marital and Family Counseling

• Provides counseling for conflicts in family relationships, sexual issues, separation and divorce matters and communication skills

Partner Assault Response

• Offers a 12 week group education and counseling program on domestic violence and non-abusive ways of resolving conflict
• Offers victims/partners of the offender support including safety planning, referrals to community resources and information on offender's progress

Problem Gambling

• Provides individual and family counseling to deal with the harmful effects of problem gambling

Member agency of Support Services Network for Male Survivors in Ontario (North Region)

Allows individuals experiencing drug or alcohol addictions to receive counselling, appropriate addiction medications, and connections to community treatment programs for ongoing montioring, support and rehabilitation

Services available include:

• Access to medication assisted therapy for alcohol and opioid use disorders
• Addiction medicine which includes opioid replacement therapy buprenorphine (suboxone) and methadone
• Alcohol urge reduction medication
• Brief support and referrals for individuals not connected to addiction recovery services

• Promotes increased participation in sport, physical fitness and recreation, and other programs that encourage healthy lifestyles
• Offers individual and group information sessions on fitness and nutrition topics
• Assists individuals in creating a personalized fitness program and provides supervision while participant performs the program

Offers specialized fitness and nutrition programs for:

• Children
• Youth
• Women
• Seniors and disabled adults

Healthy Eating, Healthy Weight

• Offers a weight management program
• Provides encouragement and health information to support individual in achieving wellness goals

Smoke Free Living/Smoking Cessation

• Provides education and resources about initiatives to quit smoking
• Offers a support group including mentors who have gone through the process of smoking cessation

Youth Leadership

• Provides workshops to teach youth leadership skill development
• Addresses topics including conflict management, decision making, goal setting, teamwork, time management and developing and presenting workshops

Offers culturally sensitive services to address drug and alcohol issues and to prevent or minimize the negative effects of addictive substances

• Provides individual and group addictions counselling sessions
• Provides drug and alcohol assessments
• Offers individual information, education and needed support as identified through assessment to initiate life changes for recovery
• Provides referrals to treatment centres and programs
• Promotes healthy lifestyles and alternatives to alcohol, drugs and solvents
• Offers public education seminars and workshops, primarily in schools

Addictions treatment services and programs include:

• Talking circles
• Sweats
• Traditional teachings
• Referrals to healing lodges

Aftercare services:

• Assistance in locating and/or attending Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Alateen or Alanon groups
• Individual ongoing addictions counselling sessions

Offers a methadone maintenance program for opiate dependence based on an intensive outpatient model, over a 12-24 month period

Services include:

• Initial intake screening procedure
• A signed treatment contract
• Focused medical examination
• Appropriate lab tests
• Initial as well as ongoing supervised urinalysis
• Weekly group and individual therapy
• Regular medical follow-ups and supervision
• Regular daily Methadone dosing
• Treatment of substance use related illness and/or diseases (such as Hepatitis C and HIV infection)
• After care program

Also offers onsite, in partnership with the Northwestern Health Unit:

• Needle Exchange Program
• Naloxone Overdose Response Program - a lifesaving medication that can quickly restore the breathing of a person who has overdosed on heroin or prescription opioid pain medication

• Functions as a withdrawal management and problematic alcohol/substance use treatment centre
• Offers a 28-day land-based program in an eight-bed co-ed residential treatment facility (also offers two detoxification beds)
• Addresses the needs of an individual's spiritual, mental, physical, and emotional health and well-being
• Assists individual to gain an understanding of how abuse, relationship dynamics, problematic alcohol and substance use issues, self-destructive behavior and family violence affects their life
• Supports individual through a journey of self and includes components such as detoxification, stabilization, introductions to food, exercise, and cultural activities and healing practices

Services and programs include but are not limited to:

• Assessment and treatment planning
• Medically-supervised detoxification
• Individual/group counselling
• Nutrition information and guidance
• Cultural/recreational activities such as fishing, trapping, snowshoeing, and medicine picking
• Health services
• Aftercare planning and follow-up
• Relapse prevention

• Offers the "Stop Smoking with FHT's" cessation program to assist individuals in quitting tobacco use
• Conducts initial assessment to determine the patient's smoking habits and health profile to provide the appropriate treatment
• Provides self-management support and strategies
• Assists patients released from hospital to remain smoke-free after discharge

Offers the following support and services:

• Education and information
• Counselling
• Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) that can include patch, lozenges, gum and inhalers
• Prescriptions for Champix or Zyban (through FHT Pharmacist)

Provides a broad spectrum of mental health and addiction services

Services offered include but not limited to:

• Provides drug and alcohol assessments
• Offers case management and forensic case management
• Provides mental health and addictions counselling, both long-term and crisis counselling
• Offers problem gambling counselling
• Provides community outreach and education

Share for Hope Program

• Provides weekly visits to Out of The Cold Shelter by community volunteers (survivors)
• Volunteers speak and offer encouragement about topics such as addictions, homelessness, family violence and grief

Also offers a satellite office in Pickle Lake two days per month

Offers a methadone maintenance program for opiate dependence based on an intensive outpatient model, over a 12-24 month period

Services include:

• Initial intake screening procedure
• Signed treatment contract
• Focused medical examination
• Appropriate lab tests
• Initial and ongoing supervised urinalysis
• Weekly group and individual therapy
• Regular medical follow-up and supervision
• Regular daily Methadone dosing
• Treatment of substance use related illness and diseases such as Hepatitis C and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection
• After care program

Also offers onsite, in partnership with the Northwestern Health Unit:

• Needle Exchange Program
• Naloxone Overdose Response Program - a lifesaving medication that can quickly restore the breathing of a person who has overdosed on heroin or prescription opioid pain medication

• Promotes increased participation in sport, physical fitness and recreation, and other programs that encourage healthy lifestyles
• Offers individual and group information sessions on fitness and nutrition topics
• Assists individuals in creating a personalized fitness program and provides supervision while participant performs the program

Offers specialized fitness and nutrition programs for:

• Children
• Youth
• Women
• Seniors and disabled adults

Healthy Eating, Healthy Weight

• Offers a weight management program
• Provides encouragement and health information to support individual in achieving wellness goals

Smoke Free Living/Smoking Cessation

• Provides education and resources about initiatives to quit smoking
• Offers a support group including mentors who have gone through the process of smoking cessation

Youth Leadership

• Provides workshops to teach youth leadership skill development
• Addresses topics including conflict management, decision making, goal setting, teamwork, time management and developing and presenting workshops

• Provides information and free resources to support and encourage individuals to quit smoking, protect the public from second-hand smoke and prevent youth from smoking
• Promotes Canadian Cancer Society's smoker's helpline
• Offers Brief Intervention Cessation Counselling (BICC)
• Enforces the Smoke-Free Ontario Act
• Supports smoke/vape-free outdoor space by-laws and smoke/vape-free housing
• Provides a website with tobacco laws, smoking cessation tips, facts about second-hand smoke and activities teens have organized to fight tobacco
• Offers sign-up forums to become involved in ways to quit smoking and to fight tobacco
• Offers support and guidance to any youth desiring to become involved in health advocacy issues/public health programs

Offers various youth programs such as:

Smoke Free Movies

• Provides facts and figures about the movie industry's endorsement of smoking
• Provides online avenues for youth to become involved in the fight against smoking appearing in movies
• Partners with organizations in attempting to get youth-related movies with smoking in them rated "R"

Provides a residential facility with holistic services offered to men and women who seek assistance in dealing with their alcohol and/or drug dependence

Offers the following services:

• Alcohol and drug education including Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings
• Case management
• Crisis intervention
• Individual and group counselling
• Life skills and personal development teachings
• Individual treatment planning
• Recreation therapy
• Traditional spiritual and cultural healing practices
• Follow-up, relapse prevention and aftercare

• Promotes increased participation in sport, physical fitness and recreation, and other programs that encourage healthy lifestyles
• Offers individual and group information sessions on fitness and nutrition topics
• Assists individuals in creating a personalized fitness program and provides supervision while participant performs the program

Offers specialized fitness and nutrition programs for:

• Children
• Youth
• Women
• Seniors and disabled adults

Healthy Eating, Healthy Weight

• Offers a weight management program
• Provides encouragement and health information to support individual in achieving wellness goals

Smoke Free Living/Smoking Cessation

• Provides education and resources about initiatives to quit smoking
• Offers a support group including mentors who have gone through the process of smoking cessation

Youth Leadership

• Provides workshops to teach youth leadership skill development
• Addresses topics including conflict management, decision making, goal setting, teamwork, time management and developing and presenting workshops

Offers culturally sensitive services to address drug and alcohol issues and to prevent or minimize the negative effects of addictive substances

• Provides individual and group addictions counselling sessions
• Provides drug and alcohol assessments
• Offers individual information, education and needed support as identified through assessment to initiate life changes for recovery
• Provides referrals to treatment centres and programs
• Promotes healthy lifestyles and alternatives to alcohol, drugs and solvents
• Coordinates a free needle exchange program
• Offers public education seminars and workshops, primarily in schools

Addictions treatment services and programs include:

• Talking circles
• Sweats
• Traditional teachings
• Referrals to healing lodges

Aftercare services:

• Assistance in locating and/or attending AA, Alateen or Alanon groups
• Individual ongoing addictions counselling sessions

Offers a methadone maintenance program for opiate dependence based on an intensive outpatient model, over a 12-24 month period

Services include:

• Initial intake screening procedure
• A signed treatment contract
• Focused medical examination
• Appropriate lab tests
• Initial as well as ongoing supervised urinalysis
• Weekly group and individual therapy
• Regular medical follow-ups and supervision
• Regular daily Methadone dosing
• Treatment of substance use related illness and/or diseases (such as Hepatitis C and HIV infection)
• After care program

Also offers onsite, in partnership with the Northwestern Health Unit:

• Needle Exchange Program
• Naloxone Overdose Response Program - a lifesaving medication that can quickly restore the breathing of a person who has overdosed on heroin or prescription opioid pain medication
• Hepatitis C education and prevention strategies, safe inhalation information and overall health and well-being support

• Promotes the health and well being of urban Indigenous people
• Focus is on preventing the development of health issues including diabetes, obesity and heart disease

Programs and services provided include:

• Sports activities, physical fitness and recreational activities
• Helping individuals in creating a personalized fitness program and supervision while participants perform the program
• Healthy nutrition education
• Smoking cessation/smoke-free living education and programs
• Youth leadership promotion