New addictions care facility for women aims to help serve growing need on P.E.I.
Well being P.E.I. says a brand new facility supporting ladies scuffling with substance abuse is a necessary step in offering the province with much-needed dependancy providers.
The addictions prolonged care facility that replaces the decades-old Lacey Home in Charlottetown has now been working for a month.
It has 12 resident areas — twice as many because the previous constructing — the place individuals who establish as ladies can keep for as much as 90 days to get handled.
The brand new facility is providing not solely residential remedy, but in addition day programming, and house for in a single day household visits for these with kids.
Not like the older constructing, the first ground can be wheelchair-accessible.
“We’ve got a a lot brighter, bigger, stunning, trendy house,” stated Charmaine Campbell, supervisor of psychological heath and addictions transitional providers at Well being P.E.I.
“There’s at all times a necessity for a lot of our dependancy providers on P.E.I. Particularly for ladies … we have had an elevated variety of wants. And I believe proper now we’re simply sort of making an attempt to maintain up with that demand. By having these elevated capability of beds, we will help enhance service.”
Programming supplied on the facility contains schooling, counselling, and life-skill constructing similar to meal preparation, budgeting and self-care.
Islanders can entry remedy by a referral. These may be submitted by the people themselves, their main care suppliers, psychological well being or addictions providers and out-of-province remedy amenities.
“[It’s] very individualized,” Campbell stated. “Relying on the place they had been once they met the 90 days or what their subsequent steps had been, we might work with them …
“If it was setting them up with an addictions counselor to fulfill long run, maybe it was planning for any individual to additional their schooling, discover a job, issues like that, we might as workers work with the person.”
Campbell stated that the ability might see greater than 50 residents in a given 12 months.
The brand new facility is a part of a psychological well being and addictions campus that has been within the works for the final couple of years and which can ultimately embrace a substitute for the Hillsborough Hospital.
A “structured dwelling” constructing adjoining to the addictions prolonged care facility is about to open this fall.
“We’re aligning this expanded service with different necessary investments in acute and emergency care, structured and transitional housing, new applications for day remedy, and added assets and staffing,” Well being Minister Ernie Hudson stated in a launch.
Hudson added that supporting Islanders with the precise neighborhood and providers can higher assist their restoration.
