The services offered at the Walgwan Centre include Pre/Post Services. Our interveners are directly involved in evaluating the clientele prior to admission to our Centre, working closely with the local community interveners, and, as much as possible, traveling to the communities and participating in the assessment of youth being referred. While in the communities, our interveners will also follow up on our clientele who have returned home, evaluating and offering continued support in their ongoing recovery process.
Residential services are when the youth are coming into our program for rehabilitation services. We expect the clients to participate in the residential program for a maximum period of up to six (6) months at the Walgwan Centre. In the first stages of the program, we are concerned with the detoxification period. The youth are closely observed. We evaluate their health and their capacity to understand the program and initiating the daily activities progressively. In this first stage of the program, we would evaluate the duration of the stay into the program, looking at the need or not to extend to the full duration of six months. The youth admitted will have a psychological assessment by our psychologist and offered, if it is a need, a psychological follow-up.
After the first two (2) weeks we start implementing the intervention plan, working more precisely on aspects of their life they have recognized as needed to be change or improvement. At this stage, we rely also on the resources in the community of origin. In the last stage, we work on preparing the youth to return home, preparing them to reintegrate daily activities as they present themselves in the community, working on a plan of action guiding the youth once back home and identifying resources that will provide the support needed for the youth to continue in their recovery process.
A family program is also included in the phases of the residential program. We will invite family members and/or significant ones to come to our program and participate in the youth's recovery journey. This involvement will also be the occasion for these individuals to learn more about substance abuse, about issues needed to be addressed and identifying resources when in need of extending recovery to the family units.
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