Round Lake Treatment Centre

Offers a six- or seven-week residential treatment program for persons of First Nations ancestry and of other lineages, age 19 or older; applicants must have withdrawn from alcohol and from mood-altering drugs for two weeks prior to admission. Provides clinical expertise combined with a personalized, practical, and trauma-informed approach to healing. Services include group counselling, sessions for addiction and trauma issues, individualized treatment planning, and after-care planning and follow-up. Elder and cultural sessions are also provided such as traditional teachings and ceremonies like sweat lodge utilizing a culture-is-treatment philosophy based on holistic concepts of the medicine wheel that addresses spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical aspects of life. Harm reduction components are limited to methadone and suboxone. Fees are $200/day if self-paying; coverage may be provided in full or in part if status Indian, band member, or through social assistance. Must be referred by an addiction counsellor or a physician. Serves BC. Office hours are 8:30 am to 12 noon and 12:30 pm to 4:30 pm Monday to Friday. CARF accredited. Funded by Interior Health and the First Nations Health Authority (FNHA) as a National Native Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program (NNADAP).