Provides treatment of substance abuse and mental health disorders through individual, group and family counselling, as well as a structured day treatment program

• Program is based upon the harm-reduction model of substance abuse treatment in which clients work towards abstinence within the stages of change model
• Assists individuals to work towards developing an understanding of their individual challenges as well as the development of family, academic, peer and treatment-based supports in their treatment planning

Offers the following services:

• Individual, Group and Family Counselling
• Academics within a classroom setting
• Life Skills education, including independent living skills, social skills and interpersonal social skills instruction
• Access to community resources, including involvement in local employment, health and academic services
• Promotion of healthy active living, including drug education, art therapy, healthy alternative activities development as well as an individually focused, structured three times-weekly fitness program
• Adventure-based Learning, which involves challenging youth to engage in healthy risk management in a wide range of group activities, such as rock climbing, canoeing, hiking, mountain biking, skiing/snowboarding, orienteering and outdoor survival training
• Individualized Transition Planning. in both academic and treatment components, to provide continued learning and support opportunities through local education and substance abuse treatment services

• Operates a long term recovery home for women with addictions
• Offers both pre and post treatment services

Programs for residents include:

• 12 step study
• Anger management
• Art therapy
• Grief group
• Group counselling
• Health education
• House meetings
• Individual counselling
• Leisure skills
• Life skills
• Meditation
• Recreation
• Women's issues groups

Community programs include: (for local women only)

• Assessments
• Out-patient counselling and special group sessions
• A New Link

• Provides early identification of clients who may have or are developing alcohol and or other drug related problems
• Provides comprehensive substance abuse assessments
• Offers referral services for further assistance
• Offers treatment planning
• Provides counselling and case management
• Offers a needle exchange and harm reduction services

Programs offered include:

• Methadone maintenance treatment
• Back on Track (Ontario's Remedial Measures Program for Impaired Drivers)
• Ontario Works Addiction Services Initiative
• Addiction Supportive Housing Program (ASH)

• Provides screening, assessment, treatment, education and support to individuals who suffer from a respiratory illness or disease
• Assists individuals who have asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), or need screening for lung disease

Helps individuals with COPD:

• Learn how COPD affects the lungs
• Recognize chest infections and the steps to take
• Manage stress
• Follow a healthy diet
• Quit smoking
• Medications and how to take them

For individuals with asthma, the program helps with the following:

• How to use puffers and take prescribed medication
• How to avoid exposure to triggers
• Importance of not smoking
• Warning signs and symptoms of reactions to watch for and how to know allergic and non-allergic triggers
• Managing asthma using an Action Plan and peak flow monitoring

Provides alcohol and drug counselling services for youth and their families including:

• Drug and alcohol assessments
• Individual, family and group counselling
• School-based outreach services
• Substance abuse awareness sessions
• Programs for parents
• Aftercare services
• Harm reduction and relapse prevention

• A 14 bed residential addictions treatment with supportive housing, offering a calm, minimally stressful, optimistic and open environment for males with the disease of addiction
• Provides a long-term residential addictions treatment program based on 12-Step philosophy and Cognitive-Behavioral programs for relapse prevention
• Program is abstinence-based with mandatory participation in self-help groups
• Length of stay varies; suggested minimum of three months
• Residents have option of entering long-term supportive housing program

Program services offered include:

• Group therapy
• Guest Speakers
• Video presentations
• Life skills
• Anger Awareness
• Relapse Prevention
• Individual Counselling and Therapy

• Promotes increased participation in sport, physical fitness and recreation, and other programs that encourage healthy lifestyles
• Offers individual and group information sessions on fitness, traditional diets and healthy weight management

Offers specialized fitness and nutrition programs for:

• Children
• Youth
• Women
• Seniors and disabled adults

Offers the following programs:

• Healthy Eating, Healthy Weight
• Smoke Free Living/Smoking Cessation
• Youth Leadership

• Offers a methadone maintenance program for opiate addicts based on an intensive outpatient model, over a 12-24 month period
• Works in partnership with the HIV/AIDS Resource Program (HARP) to provide Hepatitis C education and prevention strategies, safe inhalation information and overall health and well-being support

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 addiction related illness/diseases such as Hepatitis C and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection
• After care program

Offers education, counselling and other services related to substance abuse and the effects on the family, pregnancy and babyServices include:

• Alcohol and drug assessments
• Community kitchen (in partnership with the Red Cross)
• Education on substance use and the effects on family
• Educational groups
• Individual counselling
• Referrals to appropriate services
• Support groups for moms (childcare and transportation may be provided)
• Triple P

Mental Health

• Offers support services to promote mental health
• Provides counselling and services to manage mental health issues

Manages and operates the following community programs and services:

• Algoma East Counselling Services
• Beginnings Transitional House
• Crisis Services
• Seniors Mental Health Services
• Strategies for Treatment of Early Psychosis (STEP)
• Transitional Care
• Community Treatment Orders Program
• Program for Assertive Community Treatment (PACT)
• Eating Disorders Program
• Mobile Crisis Response

Addiction Services

• A community treatment service that offers counselling services to adults and their families experiencing difficulties with alcohol and/or other drugs, and difficulties with problem gambling
• Provides help to alleviate psycho-social problems associated with the use and abuse of alcohol, drugs and/or problem gambling
• Offers support and education to family members in better understanding and coping with difficulties related to addictions
• Manages and operates the Addiction Treatment Clinic
• Manages and operates the Residential Withdrawal Management Services

Services Provided:

• Aftercare services
• Addictions treatment clinic
• Community treatment programs
• Concurrent disorders program and group
• Consultation
• Education and Awareness
• Family counselling
• Family support
• Group therapy
• Individual therapy
• In Home counselling
• Marital and couples counselling
• Presentations on gambling
• Relapse prevention
• Stagewise program