Searching for Transitional Housing

• Operates a 10-bed rehabilitation housing program for individuals struggling with severe and persistent mental health issues
• Assists adults with severe mental illness achieve an optimal level of functioning so they can return to community living
• Provides three Homes for Special Care (HSC) beds which serves as permanent housing
• Assists individuals in working towards the goal of transitioning into the community within two years

Services provided include but are not limited to:

• Assistance with daily living activities
• Medication management
• Ensuring individuals attend appointments and receive therapeutic services, such as counselling

• Operates a long-term residential facility for women who want to overcome substance abuse issues
• Offers both pre and post treatment services

Programs for residents can include:

• 12 step meetings
• Anger management
• Art therapy
• Grief group
• Group and individual counselling
• Health education
• House meetings
• 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

Domestic violence program:

• 24 hour crisis line
• one-on-one counselling sessions
• intake
• assessments
• case plans
• referrals
• accompaniment to courts
• outreach services to women and men in the community and Cornwall
• six-week residential educational program for women and children who have experienced abuse
• transitional housing units for those who have completed the six-week program

Note: Services may be impacted in response to COVID-19. Contact any service prior to visiting in-person to receive up-to-date information on changes to their availability.

The Transitional Housing and Support Worker travels to communities within their catchment area and can provide assistance with:

• Locating and maintaining safe housing
• Safety planning
• Information about rights
• Referrals
• Advocacy
• Accompaniment to appointments
• Ongoing emotional support
• Court support and accompaniment within the criminal court system

Note: Services may be impacted in response to COVID-19. Contact any service prior to visiting in-person to receive up-to-date information on changes to their availability.

Operates a 10-bed short term emergency shelter for women who are victims of abuse, and their children

• Provides a 24-hour support line
• Provides emergency transportation to women living outside the community who need to come to the shelter
• Provides accompaniment to appointments
• Provides access and referral to available community resources
• Supports women in obtaining clothing, furniture and household items when in need
• Provides an emergency food cupboard for women accessing shelter services
• Offers women's support groups
• Offers a resource library
• Provides public education and presentations on abuse

Permanent and Transitional Housing comprised of approximatedly 50 beds between two programs:

• Domiciliary Care residence for men and women with supports for individuals with a history of homelessness, mental health diagnosis, concurrent disorders and addiction
• Community Residential Facility for men on conditional relase under Correctional Service of Canada

A 6-bed post treatment transitional housing program for men who have completed a residential treatment program for substance abuse/addiction.

• open to persons of all faiths and to those with no religious beliefs
• transitional housing with an average length of stay from 6 months - 1 year
• a no-alcohol, no-drugs facility operated by the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, Toronto Central Council

Residential programs use a modified 'therapeutic community' treatment model with an approach based on the belief that chronic addiction comes with an acquired lifestyle and that recovery requires a holistic approach that challenges deeply ingrained behaviours and teaches healthy alternatives.

Believing that change is most effective when it is experienced and shared, staff encourage residents to assist each other in every aspect of treatment. Professional staff function as facilitators, guides, and role models. Residents, staff, and alumni comprise a supportive community in which the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Stonehenge offers 4.5 - 6 month residential programs tailored to the unique needs of adult men and women. Additional residential services include:

Opioid Substitution Treatment (OST): Support coordination, crisis intervention, education, community referrals, and access to a physician via the Ontario Telemedicine Network teleconferencing system, as well as a pharmacist who provides medications on site.

Correctional Programs: Residential beds for male and female offenders under federal and provincial jurisdiction.

Early Childhood Development Program (ECD): Stonehenge reserves one bed in the Women's Residential Program to accommodate pregnant women struggling with substance issues.

Friends and Family Support Program: Monthly group in which family members and friends of residents meet to receive support and learn valuable skills to cope with the impact of addiction; co-facilitated by a staff member and a family member with lived experience.

Regional Aftercare Program: Staff-facilitated aftercare program for individuals who have completed at least three months of the residential program; provides an opportunity to test new-found skills and stay connected to the guidance of the program and staff for up to two years.

Private room and partial board for long term consumers/survivors of the mental health system. Residents help prepare food for communal meals and share in care of house * total capacity 20

Residence accommodating up to 22 adult male offenders released from a federal institution

• 24-hour staff assistance and supervision
• service emphasis is on employment and education

Residential foster care program for children and youth

• therapeutic foster homes
• specialized foster home for children with special needs including emotional, behavioural, and physical needs
• case management
• transitional living