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Residential Treatment
The Aurora Centre residential treatment program, designed by women for women, draws upon our more than thirty years' experience in working with and listening to women recovering from addictions.
Six weeks in length, the program provides intensive support and counselling to women requiring the emotional and physical safety and structure of a residential facility.
Grounded in the bio-psycho-social-spiritual model of addiction, our treatment program is holistic, assisting women in improving their emotional, physical, mental and spiritual health.
What you can expect:
During your first two weeks here, you will learn skills to identify, express, and process feelings in a healthy way. You will learn life skills such as assertive communication and boundary setting. You will have a chance to bond with a small working group of women with whom you will share your alcohol and drug history and do some deeper emotional work in weeks three and four. In weeks five and six, we will guide you in relapse prevention and writing an aftercare plan which will help you to continue the healing you began at Aurora.
You can expect support in taking healthy risks to change your behaviour. Most women leave with greater self-awareness, increased understanding of addiction and their own self-destructive patterns, a set of new skills, enhanced self-esteem, and, perhaps most important, deep and supportive connections with other women.
Words from an Aurora graduate:
“I did not think I could change, but my experience at Aurora proved to me that I can change.
I was extremely isolated when I came to Aurora, but I can leave feeling connected to others.”
The daily schedule at Aurora is a full one, beginning with a half-hour walk after breakfast, followed by morning reflections and group therapy. Each afternoon, there is a combination of seminars, yoga, smoking awareness groups, art and music therapy, videos, and fitness classes. Clients attend two in-house 12-step meetings per week and occasional evening seminars.
You will be expected to participate in all parts of the program. To benefit most from your stay at the Aurora Centre, it is important that you remain free from all substances for thirty days before admission, and, if possible, have had some previous group work experience.
The Aurora Centre is a tobacco-free facility for clients, employees and visitors. This means no use of tobacco products is permitted on the Aurora Centre property, and no visible display of tobacco products including paraphernalia. You are not allowed to smoke at any time during your stay at Aurora. As with all other mood-altering, addictive substances, we are only asking you to abstain from using tobacco while here. To help you with this, we will be providing specialized tobacco dependence treatment, including free nicotine replacement therapies such as the patch. However, if you are considering admission to Aurora, we strongly encourage you to prepare for our tobacco-free policy by reducing or stopping your tobacco use as far in advance of admission as possible.
Information sheets for Referral Agents and Health Professionals, prospective clients and family members and friends are available on request. Please contact aurora@cw.bc.ca or phone 604 875 2032.
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