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Phoenix Residential Addiction Services Program

This program offers:

The Centre's residential addiction services component funded by the Ministry of Health Services Mental Health and Addictions provides 28 beds that focus on stabilization from an addiction-based lifestyle.

Services include:

  • Integrated Case Management
  • Substance misuse awareness and education
  • Individual and group counseling
  • Relapse prevention skills
  • Health promotion skills
  • Personal health care coaching
  • Personal management skills
  • Stress management
  • Cognitive restructuring
  • Emotional management training
  • Additional addiction services provided by a concurrent disorder therapist

For admissions contact admissions@phoenixsociety.com or call 604-583-7166 option "1"

 

Phoenix Community Centre Program

This program offers:

This is a unique component specifically designed to increase opportunities for a large, rich and underutilized network of people in recovery who possess a wealth of lived experience, wisdom, knowledge and skills and, excited by the potential of the Phoenix Centre, are eager to participate in connecting residents with the social and economic life of the community.

This new component will provide, through alumni organized activities, opportunities for:

Leisure and Recreation

  • Promoting involvement in a diverse number of healthy activities fitness centre, games room, crafts room, workshop, meditation room, etc.

Volunteerism

  • Allowing alumni and participants opportunities to volunteer, and to participate in work experience and job shadowing
  • Providing opportunities to participate in the full range of community life through volunteerism in the community and to be recognized for their involvement and successes in these activities.

Citizenship Skills

  • Providing opportunities for people to develop and sharpen social skills to become successfully involved in the community
  • Providing opportunities to experience cooperation, respect, solidarity, trust, reciprocity, and recognition for their efforts and successes (inclusion)

Community Involvement

  • Inviting community involvement ( volunteerism, legal services, financial literacy, translation services, multi-cultural services, theatre arts, Tai Chi, art classes, wellness practitioners, Reiki, art therapy, ethnic cooking classes, music, yoga, hobby/craft activities, etc.)

Leadership and Community Development

  • Opportunities for exploring and creating a collaborative community social and economic development activities that encourage collaboration among individuals, communities, neighbourhoods and governments, business and other sectors to devise strategies and goals to realize the vision of healthy communities for all citizen

For more information contact admissions@phoenixsociety.com or call 604-583-7166 option "1"

 

Phoenix Transitional Housing Program

This program offers:

  • Another unique component in the Phoenix Centre's service delivery model that provides safe, affordable housing for residents ready to pursue employment and/or educational goals after completing the early stabilization program.
  • Intensive case management of residents by a Program Coordinator who works with residents on individually tailored back to work/education and independent community living action plans
  • A structured program requiring accountability and responsibility
  • Provides essential transitioning assistance including coordination and brokering of services
  • Enhanced recovery support services provided in this component include:
    • Recovery maintenance skills
    • Personal management skills
    • Stress management
    • Problem-solving and decision-making
    • Conflict resolution
    • Financial management

For admissions contact admissions@phoenixsociety.com or call 604-583-7166 option "1"

 

Phoenix Access To Employment Program

This program offers:

  • The first federally funded employment program of its kind in Canada to offer Integrated Case Management
  • Integrated Case Management is specialized case management that focuses on assessing, tracking and addressing any and all barriers that effect employability by linking participants with supports (eg. Gaps in work history, housing, family issues, child-care, transportation, legal issues, debt, financial problems, addictions, mental health, health, lack of self-marketing skills or career direction, etc.).
  • Integrated Case Management and Vocational Counselling in parallel with a sequential series of interventions
  • These interventions include:
    • Career Decision Making
    • Employability Skills
    • Job Search
    • Employment Maintenance
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  • Assists clients in developing and implementing a Return To Work Action Plan leading to training, educational upgrading, volunteer position and ultimately employment
  • Services that can vary in intensity and duration depending on each participant's suitability, need, motivation, readiness and level of functioning

For admissions contact astep@phoenixsociety.com or call 604-583-7155

 

Phoenix Kwantlen Learning Centre

Through a partnership with Kwantlen University College, a unique learning program has been developed that provides the following services specifically developed to assist individuals in recovery with education and upgrading.

Services include:

  • Formal assessment and upgrading of English, Math, and study skills
  • Assistance with GED or ABE completion
  • Academic upgrading/preparation for entry into further post secondary education programs, apprenticeship or trades training programs
  • Strengthening Career Plans and SDEB applications
  • Improving “Essential Skills” (Literacy and Numeracy) in preparation for employment or training

For admissions contact pklc@phoenixsociety.com or call 604-583-7166 option "4"

 

Phoenix Employment Program

This program offers:

  • A Career Planning program for multi-barriered men and women who are unemployed, eligible to work in Canada and who reside in Surrey, Delta, or White Rock.
  • PEP staff customize a program to incorporate each individuals' needs in career planning, vocational assessment, counselling, use of technology, self-marketing skills, drop-in services, follow-up and aftercare, referrals and support.
  • Career coaching in combination with workshops which assist multi-barriered clients through the change process and transitioning to work or skill enhancement.

For admissions contact pep@phoenixsociety.com or call 604-581-6117

 

Background information

Since 1989 the Phoenix Society has been initiating and creating programs in the community funded by Human Resources Skills Development Canada, the Federal Solicitor General, and the British Columbia Ministry of Human Resources.

These programs include:

  • Phoenix Employment Program - An employment program for men and women funded by Human Resources Development Canada

  • Phoenix Empowerment Program for Youth at Risk (Employability Skills/Computer Skills) - funded by Human Resources Development Canada

  • Phoenix Drug & Alcohol Centre - Community Care Licensed Facilities funded by Ministry of Social Development & Economic Security

  • Phoenix Senior Men’s Residential Program

  • Phoenix Training Institute (Registered with the Private Career Training Institutions Agency [PCTIA])

  • Options for Wellness (Community Volunteers, Holistic & Alternative Health Practitioners, First Nation’s Teachers and Healers)

 

Proven Strengths

  • Our program components have been developed according to empirically based social learning and cognitive-behavioral principles and methodologies.

  • Improved US and Canadian based research and treatment technology has guided us in developing an integrated, community-based system of care.
  • Our staff are an inter-disciplinary, cross-trained team familiar with and able to collaborate with criminal justice, employment, mental health and other substance abuse and behavioral health professionals in the field

Research and Development

Successful Initiatives:

  • National Institute on Drug Abuse – Rockville, Maryland USA
  • Therapeutic Communities of America – New York, New York, USA
  • World Federation of Therapeutic Communities, Washing DC, USA
  • Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, CANADA
  • National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counsellors, Virginia, USA
  • Addiction Technology Transfer Centres – USA
  • Centre for Applied Behavioral Sciences – CENAPS Corporation – Terrence Gorski
  • Centre for Substance Abuse Treatment – Rockville, Maryland
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