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The Georgian Bay Treatment Centre was very pleased to celebrate the TD Bank’s donation of $30,000 towards the start-up costs of the rural-based treatment centre for young people at Paisley.
Other successful fund-raising activities in 2014 have included an Artshow Gala held in May at the Owen Sound Best Western Hotel; a BBQ at Bill’s Valu-mart Meaford , and another BBQ at Zehr’s Owen Sound. Other fundraising has included private donors and loans from social investors.
“With the generous assistance from the TD Bank and other donors, we are now starting the centre, and have put in place our Chief Administrative Officer, Janice Arnold, who is currently hiring the core staff and establishing the administrative systems for the Centre. We plan to start processing admissions in February 2015,” said Grafton Pinheiro, chair of the GBTC Board.
The resource development arm of the Georgian Bay Treatment Centre is working towards the full funding of this project over the next two years by working with the community, and sourcing individual as well as corporate donors.
The Georgian Bay Treatment Centre Program at Paisley, called Seven Bridges, is now set to open in March 2015, and will initially provide a residential addictions treatment centre for youth aged 14 to 19.
The program includes education and wellness, individual therapeutic treatment case management for each young person, and care and handling of horses, dogs, and small farm animals as part of the therapeutic programs.
Relapse prevention, family awareness, education, and community support services are also to be offered as part of the total.
“We are grateful to our corporate and individual donors and those government organizations that have the foresight to assist this group at this stage, including the Ontario Trillium Foundation and CMHC. Also I would like to thank those individual corporate sponsors and individuals who made possible those fundraising events over the last twelve months,” said Pinheiro.
