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)

• Promotes healthy lifestyle choices to help reduce the incidence of chronic diseases
  
• Provides information through Heart Health on how to improve heart health, such as healthy eating and quitting smoking

Active Living

• Increases awareness about the benefits of physical activity
  
• Motivates residents in the communities to become more active
  
• Works with partners in the communities to offer a broad range of local activities

Cancer Prevention

• Provides information on the prevalence of certain types of cancer and how to help prevent their occurrence through proper nutrition and exercise

Workplace Wellness

• Provides strategies on how to reduce stress in the workplace
  
• Supports and promotes employee wellness
  
• Supports work-life balance

Skin Cancer Prevention

• Promotes sun safety and protective measures
  
• Educates the public about the risks associated with exposure to the harmful ultraviolet rays from the sun and artificial sources

Substance Abuse Prevention

• Works to prevent alcohol and drug abuse
  
• Offers education on impaired driving and riding with an impaired driver

Tobacco Free Living

• Provides information and free resources to the community to achieve tobacco-free living
  
• Empowers smokers to quit
  
• Protects the public from the health effects of second hand smoke
  
• Offers prevention strategies to stop youth from starting to smoke

• A national, community-based organization of volunteers
  
• Funds research on all types of cancer
  
• Provides support for people living with cancer, family members and friends
  
• Offers comprehensive and credible information on cancer, risk reduction and treatment

• Offers presentations to community groups focusing on "Seven Steps to Health" general risk reduction
  
• Participates in community displays to promote healthy living and distribute cancer-related information

Peer Support

• Offers telephone support for those who would like to talk to someone who has had a similar experience

Wheels of Hope Transportation Program

• Provides transportation assistance to clients who must travel either to their local or out-of-town cancer-related appointments

• 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

• Helps reduce the psychological and social problems associated with the use and abuse of alcohol, drugs, and problem gambling
  
• Provides support and education to family members
  
• Offers a multi-modal approach that includes harm reduction and 12-step abstinence

Offers the following services:

• Individual therapy
  
• Group therapy
  
• Marital and couples counselling
  
• Family counselling
  
• Consultation
  
• Education and awareness
  
• Aftercare services
  
• Relapse prevention
  
• Family support
  
• In home counselling
  
• Presentations on gambling

• 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 baby

Services 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