New Roads Therapeutic Recovery Community Update for Women’s Program: March 19, 2024

New Roads Therapeutic Recovery Community

The Women’s Program will be a based on the Therapeutic Recovery Community Model, which is what our men’s program is based upon. This is a very structured environment where the residents live and work within a community context, it has proven to be a highly successful model for recovery.
Like our men’s program the women’s program is designed to be a long-term treatment program and will run 9 to 24 months with the ability to have up to 20 women at once
Staffing will include a variety of support staff, medical staff, counselling staff and leadership staff. We have designed it to be very similar to our men’s programing, but it will have a few extra supports such as Family Counselling and Recovery Coaching
The women’s program will be completely separate from the men’s program including separate staffing and daily programing.
It will be a licensed program through Island Health, which is reflective of the structure and intensity of the program, the men’s program is also licensed.

The architect, Don Brown, has been identified, and he has contracted with the necessary sub-consultants needed for the project (i.e. electrical engineer, mechanical engineer etc.) – he is also the same architect who did the renovation of the men’s building 7 years ago, so knows the building well.
The Contractor, Verity Construction, has completed an RFP process to identify the sub-contractors needed throughout the project.
The finalized drawings are just being completed and will then go to B.C. Housing – who own the building - for review and sign off, then go to View Royal with the building permit applications.
Demolition is expected to begin very soon with construction/rebuild immediately after.
It is hoped that the renovation work can be completed by late summer/ early Fall.
We have attached a concept drawing for you to help visualize what the site will look like