Maison Decision House
CSC Contracted Beds: 14Executive Director: Louis Berube
Address: 37 Irving Avenue
Maison Decision House is a non-profit organization, which provides a bilingual community-based residential substance abuse program to offenders released from federal institutions. It has a Social Learning Behavioural Model and the Program is tailored to all clients with substance abuse issues.
History: Maison Decision House was originally opened in 1979 as Community Residential Centre for provincial offenders and for a decade it helped many individuals make the transition into the community. As of March 1998 Maison Decision House was re-established as a Community Residential Facility, which offers an intense drug and/or alcohol abuse treatment program for federal offenders.
Description:
Maison Decision House is a large three-story house and has three separate on site buildings, which serve as program centre, office and garage. The house has a 14-bed capacity, which is located on the second and third floor. There are two TV rooms, one located in the basement and the other on the main floor. The kitchen and dining room are also located on the main floor. The program centre substitutes as a recreational room in the evenings and on weekends. It is equipped with a pool table. The house is conveniently located in the Hintonburg District of Ottawa, which is a 10-15 minute walk to the downtown core and it has ready access to public transportation.Program:
The main focus at Maison Decision House is on the individual and his successful completion of the residential substance abuse treatment program. The program is set up under the Social Learning Model, which believes that addiction is a learned behaviour, which can be unlearned through rational thought and new positive thinking and coping skills. This 56-day treatment program provides appropriate addiction and educational intervention to people who are experiencing alcohol and /or drug problems. Treatment is tailored to the individual and specific achievement goals are identified and throughout the treatment program the individual is given the opportunity to attain these goals. Also available is a co-dependency programs for client and spouses. There is a tailor made program for Inuit federal offenders. Also available is Methadone services.Residents Accepted:
Adult males released from a federal institution on: day parole, full parole, statutory release and unescorted temporary absence and have drug and/or alcohol related problems. The individual must be motivated to change and willing to participate and complete the treatment program in its entirety.Admissions Procedure: Future residents first contact with Maison Decision House can be made through an application letter or be presented by CSC through a CAT meeting. After the initial contact, potential residents will be interviewed personally and an assessment will be completed on that individual’s case.
Institutions Your Agency Visits
Agency visits all Institutions in both the Ontario and Quebec Regions.
CSC Type programs Offered
Moderate and Intensive Substance Abuse Treatment
CSC Liaison Office: Ottawa - (613)-996-7011
Revised November 2003