PROGRAMS

Residential Addiction Treatment Program Components.

  The medicine wheel teaches us that in order to live a healthy life we must have balance in the four dimensions of ourselves: the mental, the physical, the emotional and the spiritual. It is our belief that addiction destroys these dimensions and the only effective method of recovery is a holistic approach. Our program combines traditional Aboriginal spirituality with 12 Step programs (AA, NA, GA), informational lectures, and group therapy to help clients restore balance to their lives.

• Mental: Clients learn about the root causes of their addiction and the behavior that leads them down the path to addictive behavior. Our programs provide clients with essential tools for living clean and sober, such as skills in communication, problem solving and healthy assertiveness.

• Emotional: The majority of clients have experienced some form of trauma in their lives resulting in anger, shame, and low self-esteem from which they try to numb the pain of past life experiences and self medicate through substances. Through various techniques and activities clients gain an awareness about their destructive behaviors and learn skills to begin a process of healing from the past giving them new self-awareness to begin a journey of recovery from addictions.

• Physical: Clients participate in recreational and social activities including swimming, bowling and sober dances. They have daily access to a well-equipped exercise room, gymnasium and kitchen, which help clients on the path to a balanced regimen of healthy diet and exercise.

• Spiritual: Clients reconnect with their culture, spirituality and themselves through sweat lodge ceremonies, pipe ceremonies, and sweet grass ceremonies with the guidance of an on-sight cultural advisor. All activities at PLTC are conducted with an attitude of deep respect for Aboriginal traditions and values.

 Our residential adult drug and alcohol treatment program and our gambling treatment program are both 42 days in length.  Extensions are possible, depending on funding availability.  We also offer a 14-day follow-up program for clients who successfully complete their 42 day program.

We also include a comprehensive aftercare program that provides clients with stronger skills in maintaining recovery after the residential experience.  This program is unique to Poundmaker's Lodge in its detail and emphasis.

Gratitude House Program Components

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 Gratitude House is a recovery home on the same grounds as the addiction treatment centre.  The home provides a safe and secure residence for graduates of Poundmaker's Lodge to continue working on their recovery.  The home is an 8 bed facility and uses the staff resources of the treatment centre to provide weekly house meetings, one on one sessions and other treatment related resources.

The residents of the house are expected to maintain sobriety and be active in their recovery.  They are also responsible to establish day programming within a month of moving into the house.  Day programming may include finding employment, attending school or courses or attending workshops.

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For more information about our aftercare program please call our Aftercare Coordinator.