Adult Substance Abuse Program

The adult substance abuse treatment program is based on a stepped-care approach that provides options to distinct levels of care differing in duration and intensity depending on identified needs. These levels range from brief outpatient counselling to inpatient treatment. The stepped-care approach is based on the fact that no single level of care is effective with everyone; while some individuals require intensive residential care, many others do equally well with much less intensive, briefer outpatient interventions.

The stepped-care approach permits clients to be stepped-up or down depending on their progress and identified changes in personal circumstances. The main objective is to provide only what is necessary and sufficient for change.

Clients who complete the inpatient or intensive outpatient level of care are also offered up to 13 once weekly, solution-focused group therapy sessions. This aftercare service assists clients in the transition from intensive treatment to social reintegration and focuses on maintaining therapeutic gains and strengthening relapse prevention strategies.