Wood's Homes Programs: Intensive Residential

Our mandate is to empower, educate and support youth and their parents and/orguardians to better cope with the ongoing and complex needs of the youth.

For referral to our intensive residential programs please contact the Intake Coordinator at (403) 270-1731.

After hours, please call 250-0065 and ask for Wood's Homes Intake

Catalyst

The Catalyst Program provides intensive, individualized mental health treatment for a 6 - 12 months duration for troubled adolescents (11 - 17 years of age) and their families. The program accommodates youth with serious, complicated and often mysterious mental illnesses who have not been successful with other treatment resources. Our mandate is to empower, educate and support youth and their parents/guardians to better cope with the ongoing and complex needs of the youth in order to prevent the need for hospitalization and secure settings. The program works with families and guardians to develop a coordinated and inter-professional approach, with the ultimate intention of helping the youth make a successful transition back to a community based setting.

Eagle Moon Lodge

Eagle Moon Lodge is committed to working with Aboriginal youth, families and communities, to reduce the efforts of substance abuse by offering a holistic continuum of services. Our purpose is to provide guidance and support in connecting youth to their cultural and spiritual identity on their journey to wellness and home. The Eagle Moon Lodge program offers intensive residential, learning resources and aftercare services to First Nations young people with substance abuse issues and their families. The program provides a continuum of comprehensive treatment and support services that gradually moves each youth from an intensive and structure environment to a less structural home with the final stage being planned and supported transition home.

Evergreen

The Evergreen intensive residential treatment program serves male and female adolescents age 12 to 17 with histories of complex maltreatment issues including neglect, physical abuse and sexual abuse. This history has interfered with important developmental milestones in such areas as attachment, emotional functioning, academic achievement and peer and social relationships resulting in severe externalizing behaviour problems including conduct disorders, running behaviours, sexual acting out, self harm and delinquency. These youth tend to have a long history of child welfare involvement and are usually connected with their families in highly fragmented ways. Their families may have a significant presence in their emotional lives but may struggle to be available or reliable in supporting them.

Exceptional Needs Program Under 12

The Exceptional Needs Program for children (7 to 12 years) is a short term (3-6 month), residential program designed to provide a safe environment for children behaviourally at risk and who can not be managed in less intensive settings. The program offers a comprehensive assessment and intervention service designed to develop effective intervention and support plans for very challenging children from the perspective of an ecological approach focused on supporting optimal development.

Exceptional Needs

The Exceptional Needs Program is a short-term intensive treatment program for young people ages 11 to 17 with serious biological, psycho-social, and emotional problems. In the Exceptional Needs Program, the young person and family will have the opportunity to work closely with an experienced multi-disciplinary staff team who will address the feelings of isolation and powerlessness that often accompany unique physical and mental health needs.

Habitat

The Habitat intensive residential treatment program serves conduct disordered adolescent males (12 - 17 years). The primary intent of the Habitat program is to assist these young males to have greater self-control and reduce their abusive behaviour. Our goal is to break the cycle of abuse by addressing past trauma and by enabling these young males to live and think in non-abusive ways. The intensive residential program offers a variety of treatment approaches that allow youth to explore their experience of violence and abuse while challenging their own patterns of violent behaviour. The program also works with the adolescents' families and/or their caregivers to help them better recognize and understand the meaning of abusive behaviour and to develop alternative ways of relating safely through using a variety of therapeutic interventions including individual, group and family therapy.

Phoenix

The purpose of the Phoenix Program is to address sexually intrusive behaviour of male youth (12-18 years) by providing an ecological, competency-based model of intensive residential treatment that is closely linked with the young person's family and community. Within a culture of respect through relationships, the Phoenix Program provides individual and group therapies, psychosexual educational opportunities and creative arts therapies. Families are provided with a variety of opportunities to participate in the treatment process, to learn more about healthy sexuality, to identify local resources and to build support networks that enable the young person to sustain their positive changes when they return home.