This program is designed for self-identified women aged 19 and above, who have addiction as their primary diagnosis. Applicants must be willing to voluntarily participate in the Support Recovery program and should be both mentally and physically capable of engaging in and residing within a communal environment. Explore our homes for an inside look with a house tour!
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New Dawn has a well-respected reputation for remaining accessible to women who experience multiple barriers to accessing treatment, often due to concurrent disorders. As well, New Dawn accepts women who are prescribed medications that remain controversial and can complicate women’s access to services. The capacity for long-term care and supports is unique and critical: effectively addressing the concurrent issues underpinning women’s addiction requires more than 30 – 90 days. Women can access service and care based on their actual needs, and remain in each of our homes for up to 18 months or longer, rather than a predetermined program length. We provide structured programs in safe, comfortable, and home-like residential environments. We emphasize individual empowerment and self-responsibility. Within the program at New Dawn, our residents are introduced to The Women’s Way Through the 12 Steps, as well as a variety of self-help programs.
Our programs are not medicalized treatment programs, but they are therapeutically designed recovery programs. What’s the difference between treatment & support recovery?
“TREATMENT”
Support Recovery at Chrysalis
Recovery Stages are NOT determined by length of abstinence alone: we encourage women to think more about their needs are, rather than simply counting the number of days of abstinence they’ve achieved. There are many reasons that women may choose to go to New Dawn despite lengthy abstinence: there are medical supports available in I st-stage that aren’t available in 2nd, and we can have years of abstinence and still not be emotionally ready for semi-independent communal living. New Dawn provides safety, time & 24-hour supports for women to learn how to maintain healthy relationships and life skills as a foundation of recovery – we support women to transition to 2nd-stage when they are emotionally ready, and demonstrate the emotional readiness through their own behaviours and initiative. Time is not an issue – we want women to achieve long-term successes.
Chrysalis Society acknowledges that it is situated on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam Indian Band), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish Nation), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation)
