Residential Treatment Facilities
Two facilities in Ottawa will serve young people from across the province: one in the west end for English-speaking youth and one in the east end for those who speak French. Both will be managed by experts in youth substance abuse: the west-end facility by the Dave Smith Youth Treatment Centre and Alwood; the east-end facility by Maison Fraternité.
Both residential treatment centres will offer:
- Addiction treatment and counselling for three to four months for each youth admitted to the treatment centre, followed by assertive continuing care once the youth leaves the centre — helping youth deal with temptation, peer pressure, poor role models, along with their addiction, mental health, behavioural and social issues.
- A clinical setting, with addiction counsellors who are trained in teenage addiction — identifying the issues behind the substance abuse and applying behaviour modification and therapeutic tools to help each youth break his or her abuse-to-dependence pattern.
- A secure and caring environment — providing the right setting so that youth can get healthy, learn how to reconnect with family and friends, and eventually integrate back into the community.
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