History

Hope Place Centres was formed on May 4, 2004, as a result of the amalgamation of Hope Place Women’s Treatment Centre and Halton Recovery House. The organization is now comprised of three facilities located in the regions of Halton and Peel. In collaboration with community partners, Hope Place Centres provides gender-specific addictions treatment and recovery services to men and women, which empower them to make responsible, well-informed choices, resulting in positive lifestyle changes, improved functioning and better health.

Hope Place Women’s Treatment Centre began as a dream of a few residents of the Town of Milton in 1986. It became a reality when the doors were opened in March 1990 to the estimated 8,000 women suffering from addictions each year. Funded by the Halton Mississauga Local Health Integration Network (LHIN), it has been operating at capacity ever since. Thousands of women have benefited from its peaceful, rural setting and the Centre’s intensive addictions treatment programming.

Hope Place Outpatient Centre in Oakville was established in 2000 when the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care funded a five-year pilot project to provide treatment for women with addictions who are pregnant or parenting children 0-6 years of age. Baby’s Best Beginnings, (The Early Childhood Development Addictions Initiative) was extended by one year until March 31, 2007 and has now received annualized funding from the Mississauga Halton Local Health Integration Network (LHIN).  Two other programs, both funded by the United Way of Oakville, are offered at Hope Place Outpatient Centre: Living Sober, established in 1997 as a bi-monthly group for women in recovery and Choices for Change, established in 2000 for women seeking individual and/or group counselling.

Halton Recovery House, was established in 1975 in response to a 1974 needs analysis by the Addiction Research Foundation, which revealed a lack of rehabilitation services for men with alcohol problems. The first Halton Recovery House was a 130-year-old rented farmhouse near Milton that offered an alcohol-free environment; accommodation and support aimed at helping residents find employment and eventually return to the community.  In 1984, with assistance from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, the House purchased a 16-bed facility in Hornby and incorporated a more structured addiction program into the services provided.  Five more beds were added and today, 21 men can receive comprehensive addictions treatment for a period of 28–90 days. The Halton Mississauga Local Health Integration Network (LHIN), the United Way of Oakville and the United Way of Milton fund Halton Recovery House.

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