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A charitable social service agency that works towards a healthy community where everyone can belong and thrive, serving in four key areas: Addiction Services, Food, Housing and Neighbourhoods.

Provide life-transforming social services to young people, helping them redirect their life journey and realize the potential God intended for them

• Youth justice services
  
• Youth employment services
  
• Youth addiction services
  
• Community support services
  

Specialized and prioritized services are available for women who are concerned about their substance use or are in recovery and are pregnant and/or parenting children aged 0-6 years. The program aims to offer an appointment within 48 business hours from first contact, and there is no cost to participate.

Program Services:

• Individual meetings with a counsellor
  
• Information about community resources
  
• Supportive counselling group with mothers who are concerned about their substance use.
  
• On-site supervised childcare and assistance with transportation costs may be available to women participating in group counselling
  
• Women who are pregnant can access residential treatment at the Women's Residential Program, a 10-bed abstinence-based addiction treatment program for adult women.
  

Mutual support groups hold meetings facilitated by members who are the relatives or friends of someone whose drinking concerns them * various locations throughout Waterloo Region-Wellington County

Counselling agency * includes grief and loss counselling

Counselling agency * includes grief and loss counselling

Mutual support groups hold meetings facilitated by members who are the relatives or friends of someone whose drinking concerns them * various locations throughout Waterloo Region-Wellington County

Various complex capable addiction treatment programs and services offered in the community utilizing a harm reduction philosophy. Community-based program and service options include:

Community Withdrawal Support Service: set of services offering an alternative to residential withdrawal management

Rapid Access Addiction Medicine Clinics (RAAM): Specialized medical clinic designed for people who are experiencing health issues related to their drug and/or alcohol use.

Drug Treatment Court: Specialized court process for non-violent offenders with addiction issues

Let's Grow Together: Half-day support group for women in the Guelph-Wellington community who are pregnant or parenting children (6 years and younger) and are dealing with substance use issues

Specialized Addiction Support Coordination: For specialized populations (geriatric, acquired brain injury, developmental disability, complex mental health) living with addiction issues; education and consultation to professionals working with these populations

Specialized Outreach Services: Integrated team of peers and professionals offering flexible outreach services to homeless or street-involved people with addiction, mental health, or concurrent issues

Supportive Addiction and Mental Health Housing: A range of supports for people with complex addiction and concurrent mental health needs who are homeless, at risk of becoming homeless, or who are considered inadequately housed, without secure and / or maintained housing

Supported Recovery Room: 72-hour stabilization program for people recovering from a mental health or substance related crisis. Eligibility criteria information is available through SRR (519-362-9855)

Addiction Court Support: Outreach-based support for community residents whose substance use has resulted in criminal charges.

Peer 2 Peer Overdose Response Programs: Matches Overdose Response peers with people who have overdosed by meeting them at the hospital Emergency Department to offer harm reduction and recovery support to them, their family and friends.

Rural Wellington Addictions Service: delivered in partnership with the Upper Grand Family Health Team. Provides clients with in-person assessments, treatment/care planning and counselling services.

This service works together with the Rapid Access Addiction Medicine Clinics (RAAM) and Community Withdrawal Support Service (CWSS) to provide addictions support to residents of Wellington County.

Mutual support groups hold meetings facilitated by members who are the relatives or friends of someone whose drinking concerns them * various locations throughout Waterloo Region-Wellington County

Services include:

• specialized assessment and treatment
• coordinated access to allied health and social services
• counselling, education, outreach
• Mobile Community Health Van

RAAC (Rapid Access Addiction Clinic): support, counselling, resources, referrals to address substance dependence and related health concerns, and assistance with recovery goals.

Peripheral services provided for Hepatitis C patients only.

Integrated strategies aim to improve quality of life for persons and families impacted by substance misuse and incorporate the 4-Pillar approach: prevention, harm reduction, treatment, recovery and community safety.

COVID-19 Update: Location is open. Social distancing measures in place during services. Phone appointments with physicians at discretion of physician to reduce patient visits to clinic. Visit Frequently asked questions during COVID-19 for more information.

Services include:

• detoxification programs for opiate dependent individuals
• methadone and suboxone maintenance program using the harm reduction model
• liaison with other outpatient and inpatient treatment facilities on client's behalf
• addiction information and resources
• assist with access to legal advice
• medical and psychological care
• Stay Sharp Syringe Distribution program

Central access point that assists youth to connect with community services and provides needed supports. Services include:

• referrals
• help to obtain ID
• life skills workshops
• access to outreach workers for food, clothes, affordable housing listings, employment, addictions support, life concerns
• access to mental health clinicians and nurse practitioner for medical care and treatment, assessments and diagnostic testing (pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections etc), mental health assessments, specialist referrals, birth control, pregnancy care or parenting support, and any health concerns

Medical care team focused on family and community health

• coordinates patient care in order to assess and treat injuries or illness
• team includes: family doctors, nurse practitioners, nurses, registered dietitians, pharmacists, psychiatrists, mental health counsellors and registered kinesiologists.

Patients have access to free Specialty Clinics & Programs (must be referred by their health care provider):

• Stop Smoking
• INR Clinic
• Home Care
• Diabetes Clinic (no referral needed)
• Foot Care Clinic
• Chronic Pain Management Program
• Pregnancy and Mood Support Program (no referral needed)
• Exercise Programs
• Psychiatry Clinic
• 24-hour BP Monitoring
• Wellness Matters workshops/webinars (OPEN to everyone, no referral needed)

Community out-patient program for people struggling with addiction. Individual, family and group counselling available.

Programs include:

Workshops and support groups: for adult family members and friends affected by addiction (substance use an process addiction)

Youth Services: at all high schools in Guelph and Wellington County and at three schools in Dufferin County; services may be accessed through the Guidance department

Problem Gambling / Process Addiction Program: individual counselling, education groups, support groups and public education events for people and/or families affected by gambling

Gambling Craving Helpline: recorded message that provides information and steps to help the caller cope with urges and cravings

Note:

• Programs are part of Homewood Regional Services which includes Home and Community Care Waterloo Wellington (formerly WWLHIN) -funded Mental Health programming.
• Other locations include: Clifford, Drayton, Erin, Fergus, Harriston, Mount Forest, Palmerston, Rockwood

Interim mental health and addiction support for people transitioning into the community after inpatient psychiatric care or following a recent mental health crisis.

Services may include:

• phone support
• individual multidisciplinary team assessment
• consultations and contacts
• group education and individual support sessions
• support for medication management
• peer supports

Service model supports persons with complex mental health and addiction concerns and integrates medical and recovery approaches to support individual, personal wellness goals.

Group providing education and support to individuals wanting to understand problem gambling, change gambling behaviours, and restore life balance
For people struggling with problematic gambling behaviour including, but not limited to:

• casino gambling
• sports betting
• lottery tickets
• online poker
• stock market investing

Topics include:

• the problem gambling behavioural chain
• dealing with triggers and high-risk situations
• understanding chance/probability
• gambling traps/illusions
• recognizing erroneous gambling thoughts
• developing relapse prevention strategies

Program for youth ages 16-24 to receive support for mental health and substance use issues

Services offered:

• Early Intervention - comprehensive assessment and structured treatment plans for youth with untreated mental health and/or substance use issues
  
• Transition Support - transition support and system navigating to youth with pre-identified complex mental health and/or concurrent disorder issues who are transitioning to the adult mental health and addiction system

Public Health Unit

• immunization and screening for communicable diseases
• health education programs
• family and child health
• dental health
• sexual health
• injury prevention
• environmental health
• physical activity
• public health standards enforcement
• research and population-based health research

Emergency Preparedness - Organized plans to protect the health and safety of people in the case of public hazard, or to limit damage to property or the environment

Well Baby Clinic - Support with breastfeeding, nutrition, safety, child development, community support, and parenting

Residential withdrawal management support for all substances

• five-week residential and day treatment program offered for those with a goal to reduce or quit substance use

Services offered:

• 7 beds for withdrawal management
  
• 10 beds for residential treatment
  
• 13 spots for community day treatment

Administration office provides support to all St Leonard's programs, services, and residences in the community

5-week outpatient program with group and individual support. Counselling, education and skill development included

Topics addressed:

• managing cravings and urges
• effective communication
• disrupting habits
• managing anxiety
• social supports
• rewarding successes