Stonehenge is proud to be leading the expansion of addiction services in rural Wellington, a target for services for some time. A RAAC has opened in Elora to service the rural parts of Wellington County. Read the details in the Guelph Today article here.
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Mayor’s Emergency Task Force Funding
Stonehenge Therapeutic Community is proud to be named amongst the recipients of the City of Guelph’s new Mayor’s Emergency Task Force special funding to revitalize three important addiction-related programs, two of which Stonehenge is the lead agency. Kudos to Mayor Guthrie for focusing on brining back these programs (and other related initiatives) to build a… Read More
Compassion Fatigue Training
Yesterday Executive Director Heather Kerr facilitated an all-day Compassion Fatigue/Vicarious Trauma Workshop for the Kitchener-based design agency Overlap Associates. Vicarious trauma is real in the passionate work that social workers and health care workers do every day, but can also affect people in all types of professions. Knowing what to do about it makes all the difference in the… Read More
Opening of the Cambridge RAAC
After a lot of hard work, we are excited to announce the opening of the Cambridge Rapid Access Addiction Clinic (or “RAAC”). After the successful opening of the Guelph RAAC in June 2017 and the Kitchener RACC in April 2018, we now have now reached the goal of having one in each city centre. All RACC’s have be… Read More
Our new App!
Stonehenge Therapeutic Community is proud to launch a new App that we’ve developed with our tech partner Preemptive. The app was designed for our Community Withdrawal Support Service, to help our staff stay connected with the clients they are supporting through the withdrawal process. There has been a lot of press about it in the last few days so we thought… Read More
Launch of the Kitchener RAAC
The Guelph Rapid Access Addiction Clinic (RAAC) opened in June of 2017. Opioid investments from the WWLHIN in November 2017 meant that the RAAC could be expanded beyond Guelph. While the Kitchener RAAC has been open for a few weeks to get up and running, today was it’s official launch in the Kaufman Building at Grand River Hospital. The RAAC is funded by… Read More
New Toll-free Number and Website
We are pleased to announce that it’s now easier to get support and information for two of our newer programs through a new toll free phone number. The Community Withdrawal Support Service (CWSS) and the Rapid Access Addiction Clinics (RAAC) can now be accessed by calling 1-844-RAACWSS (1-844-722-2977). Thanks to opioid-related funding investments from the Waterloo… Read More
RAAC Expanding
With recent opioid funding from the Waterloo Wellington LHIN, we have just expanded the Guelph RAAC clinic to two days per week. You can read all the details by clicking the links for the following two articles: CBC article Mercury Tribune article
Meeting with MP Lloyd Longfield
Stonehenge’s Dr. Andrew Ekblad (Board Chair) and Heather Kerr (Executive Director) met with Guelph MP Lloyd Longfield on Jan. 16 to discuss Stonehenge’s programs and the funding received towards the opioid crisis. Lloyd was updated on our new initiatives that include expansion of the Rapid Access Addiction Clinic to two days per week, expansion of… Read More
STC on CBC Radio
On January 4th Executive Director Heather Kerr was interviewed on CBC-KW 89.1 by Morning Edition host Craig Norris. Heather was on the show to talk about the planning of our new peer-led overdose response program. The program is a result of new opioid addiction funding that Stonehenge received in November 2017 from the Waterloo Wellington LHIN. You can listen to the… Read More
