Searching for Addiction Counselling

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

• 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

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

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)

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 alcohol/drug addictions 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, addictions, 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

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)

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)

Provides services and support for individuals and families struggling with addiction issues

• Offers Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meetings when required

Prevention

• Provides public seminars/meetings to raise community awareness of alcohol, drug abuse and gambling addictions
• Holds educational sessions in schools
• Coordinates cultural and spiritual events

Intervention

• Facilitates recreational activities and social events
• Provides individual and group discussions
• Offers cultural and spiritual gatherings

Aftercare provided for preventing reoccurrence:

• Counselling, sharing circles and support groups
• Referrals to band services, social services, detoxification and treatment centres and medical assistance