Youth Support Services

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Community Treatment Day Treatment

 Live-In Treatment Caregiver Support

Substance use can become part of a powerful identity people rely on to feel good about themselves and connected to others. Substance misuse is a means to cope with unpleasant feelings and emotions.

Ray of Hope Youth Support Services (YSS) helps young people and their families find healthy long-term coping solutions that empowers them to build wholistic futures.  Over time, any coping activity (i.e. substance use, screen time, social media) can become problematic depending how it influences your brain’s chemistry. 

YSS is here to help those seeking to heal, improve, and recover from the negative impact of problematic addictive behaviours.  All programs require an initial assessment that can be arranged by requesting services.   

All of our service providers operate from a strength based, client centered, forward thinking, trauma informed, approach.   

Confidentiality

If you are pursuing treatment with Ray of Hope YSS please read our Confidentiality Agreement & How to Make a Complaint.

Additional Resources

If you are in need of additional or immediate supports outside of Ray of Hope’s YSS, please see this list of additional resources.

Program

Community Treatment

Community Treatment is a very flexible, harm reduction program that provides individual therapy for young people with addictive behaviour.   

Treatment Tools

  Advanced Brain Training: Click here for more information.

Cost of Community Treatment Services 

Program

Day Treatment

Day Treatment is an in-person, client-centered, client-led program using harm reduction principles.

Treatment Tools

Advanced Brain Training: Click here for more information.

Cost of Day Treatment Services 

Program

Live-In Treatment

Substances are often not the problem. They are often a solution to cope. Live-In Treatment provides an opportunity for young men to spend some time away from substances to allow their brain to begin a healing process and for each individual to start working on new coping strategies.

You are invited to join a therapeutic community where you can build relationships with staff and other participants where everyone is cared for and cared about.  In turn, you can start rebuilding a relationship with your family/loved ones and yourself.

Treatment Tools

Advanced Brain Training: Click here for more information.

Cost of Live-In Treatment Services

Program

Caregiver Support Services

Caregiver Support Services aims to help empower you to examine your own family system, without judgment, to determine any changes to enhance your youth’s journey to recovery.

Treatment Tools

Advanced Brain Training: Click here for more information.

Cost of Caregiver Support Services 

Additional Resources

Breaking Free

Is a self-help app/website for setting your own goals and tracking your own progress.  It is a helpful if you are on a waiting list, needing a safety plan, or in need of tracking progress towards your goals.

https://www.breakingfreeonline.ca/

 Here 24/7

YSS are not a crisis service.  If you are in crisis and live in Wellington Waterloo Region please call Here 24/&7  1-844-437-3247 (HERE247), 911 or your local emergency services.

https://here247.ca/

 ConnexOntario

If YSS is not what you are looking for, here is the Government database for private and publicly funded mental health and addiction treatment options in Ontario.

https://www.connexontario.ca/en-ca/

Parent Support Hub

Drug Free Kids is a good online resource for Caregivers.

1-866-381-1511

https://www.drugfreekidscanada.org/supporthub/