![]() ![]() ![]() Clients in these units are supported by five staff three working directly for Breakaway and two seconded to Regeneration Community Services. In 2008, Breakaway received funding to operate 40 units of Addictions Supportive Housing in partnership with Regeneration Community Services. The Satellite has been operating since 1994 and is regarded as one of the best and most comprehensive facilities in the province. Our comprehensive care approach adheres to Health Canada’s “Best Practices for Methadone Maintenance” (Canada Drug Strategy, 2002). The Satellite Opiate Treatment Program is a comprehensive opiate addiction treatment center which encompasses an opiate replacement treatment program as well as medical, counseling, and psycho-social supports on an outpatient basis in the community. At this time our name was officially changed from Breakaway Youth and Family Services to Breakaway Addictions Services reflecting the expansion of our service mandate. This move resulted in a doubling of the overall size of the organization and completed our move to providing services for all ages (The Harm Reduction Outreach Team had been open to all ages since 1991). In 2000, Breakaway and the Parkdale Community Health Centre collaborated to transfer the operation of the Satellite Methadone Clinic to Breakaway. ![]() In 1994, Breakaway, in partnership with the George Hull Centre and the Toronto District Board of Education, received funding for Clear Directions, a day treatment program serving high school aged youth with “concurrent disorders” (both substance abuse and mental health problems). Although we no longer operate a vehicle this program has evolved into our current Harm Reduction Outreach Team, which provides harm reduction services and support to street involved individuals in Toronto’s West end. The outreach program established the first needle exchange service in Etobicoke with the endorsement of the then City of Etobicoke. In 1992 this program was fully funded by the Ministry of Health as an all age’s service. In 1991, Breakaway received a donation of a recreational vehicle from the Alliance for a Drug Free Etobicoke, and funding for three staff to provide full street outreach services to Etobicoke youth. In the last 15 years this approach has become known as harm reduction and forms the philosophical basis for all our work. Originally it was to be a “sponsored” agency of the Children’s Aid Societies but it was shortly divested into an independent corporation operating under its own Board of Directors.īreakaway’s services were provided on a “modified outreach” basis, meaning counsellors would go to schools, coffee shops, and other locations to see clients as well as providing services out of their offices.īreakaway has always operated on a “non-abstinence” basis, emphasizing instead the treatment of all aspects of our client’s lives and situations. It was designed to meet the treatment needs of youth 12 to 25 in Etobicoke who were experiencing alcohol and drug related problems. We continually strive to be responsive to emerging needs in our communities, to challenging sites of inequality and to working in collaboration with a range of partners to improve the health and social conditions of people and communities.Breakaway Youth and Family Services was established in 1989 by the two Toronto Children’s Aid Societies. It is rooted in the principles that good health for people and communities is possible only when all have basic needs, equitable services and supports, and the ability to challenge and/or remove barriers that undermine good health and well-being. Our work is guided by our commitment to clients, community, equity and social justice with a mission to provide healthcare to people where, when and how they need it. We offer a broad range of services, including primary health care, dental care, harm reduction, health promotion, counselling, and community development programming, through interdisciplinary teams. Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre (Parkdale Queen West CHC) is a community-based non-profit health service organization serving south- mid-west Toronto. ![]()
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