ANNE STREET GROUP HOME
Coordinator: Monique Couture-Belliveau (869-6329)
Anne Street
Group Home has the capacity to serve six at-risk youth with
emotional and/or behavioural difficulties. The
goal is to teach the youth and their families the social,
emotional, and life skills necessary to overcome their difficult
behaviours.
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ENMAN STREET GROUP HOME
Coordinator: Brian Fontaine (869-6332)
This
is a six-bed residential group home for male youth sentenced to
open custody as a result of conflict with the criminal justice
system. The program focuses on reintegrating youth into their home
and community environments by providing social and life skills,
drug and alcohol awareness, anger management, and crime prevention
skills.
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MYERS STREET GROUP HOME
Coordinator: Helen Groslouis (869-6330)
This
home provides services to youth in crisis and to those in
transition from one living environment to another. Staff provide a structured, safe, therapeutic
environment that enables youth to stabilize themselves and start
the healing process. Youth range in age from 12 to 18; however,
younger children can be placed in an emergency. This
program, with a capacity for three youth, is operated on one side of
a duplex.
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52 MYERS STREET
GROUP HOME
Coordinator: Helen Groslouis (869-6330)
This
home provides services to youth in crisis and to those in
transition from one living environment to another. Staff provide a structured, safe, therapeutic
environment that enables youth to stabilize themselves and start
the healing process. Youth range in age from 12 to 18; however,
younger children can be placed in an emergency. This
program, with a capacity for
two
youth, is operated on one side of a duplex and
provides short term observational assessments. |
PIERRE CAISSIE CENTRE
Coordinator: Christine Léger (856-3328)
This six-bed provincial
assessment facility for youth with behaviour disorders is operated
by MYR and Mental Health Services. Youth
referred here are removed from the community for five weeks of
assessment and treatment. They return home with recommendations
based on their strengths that will allow them to thrive.
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SNOW AVENUE GROUP HOME
Coordinator: Lori Milton (869-6642)
This four-bed
therapeutic facility is designed to individually address the needs
of youth who are either aging out of the care of the provincial
government or in need of highly structured long-term care. Special
emphasis is placed on preparation for independent living by
educating residents in social and life skills, cooking, and
budgeting, and problem solving.
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CHESED
GROUP HOME
Coordinator: Barb Ferguson (854-4641)
This
home is a result of an expansion of Champlain Street Group Home
that originally provided service to one individual.
This five-bedroom unit provides services to teenage girls
with behavioral and/or emotional challenges, who are referred by
the Saint John region. The focus of this service is to provide the
youth with a safe, structured and highly supervised home
environment. The goals of the unit are to teach through empowerment,
social, emotional, and life skills, which will enable the youth to
become independent and contributing persons within their community.
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CHESTNUT GROUP
HOME
Coordinator: Neil Young (855-9763)
This
home is a specialized three-bed unit for Saint John region youth.
Its focus is to stabilize the youth, assess specific needs,
and develop a multidimensional plan that will lead to the return
of each youth to a family setting.
This
program, previously operating out of Greenhill Drive, was moved to
an agency owned property
in September.
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WESTHAVEN
GROUP
HOME
Coordinator:
Connie
Mowbray (869-6824)
This
specialized unit opened on December 5, 2004 and was initially
designed to meet the needs of one youth. In the spring of
2005 the capacity of this facility was gradually expanded to meet
the special needs of four young people from the Saint John
Region. The
focus is to provide a stable environment, assess specific needs,
and develop a multidimensional plan that will lead to the eventual
return of each youth to a family setting. |
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CUMBERLAND HOUSE
Coordinator:
June Olsen (506-432-7587)
This group home is a new residential program
to MYR that commenced operation in December 2008. This
six-bed residential facility provides at-risk youth who have
emotional and/or behavioral difficulties, the necessary skills and
tools to succeed in overcoming their difficult behaviors.
The goal is to teach youth and their families to overcome these
difficulties and reintegrate them back into the community
independently or into their family setting. |
