Referrals

This program is intended to provide treatment for severely impaired chronic solvent abusers. To ensure that the program does admit target individuals the following criteria must be met.

Eligibility Criteria:

• Client must be Canadian First Nation Males and between the ages of 16 and 25 years.
• Client must be solvent-free for the past 5 days.
• Client must be medically stable.
• Client must not use the program as an alternative to incarceration or probation.
• Client must have a voluntary commitment to the healing process.
• Client must be willing to participate in a traditional /spiritual approach to the healing process.
• Client’s abuse of solvents must have become habitual - 5 years in duration.
• Client must not exhibit a progressive history of violent behaviour.

*Note: We are wheelchair accessible.

The client does not meet criteria if they are impaired through the use of solvents to the extent that the individual:

• cannot walk or sit up properly; severe peripheral neuropathies; is unable to carry out activities of daily living; and exhibits bizarre, or disruptive behaviour.