St. Joseph’s Care Group has announced some changes to its addiction services.
The medically-supported withdrawal management program currently operating at the Balmoral Centre at 667 Sibley Drive is relocating this fall to 500 Oliver Road the home of the Crossroads Centre.
Both programs will operate out of the same site this fall.
Heading into 2025 the Balmoral Centre is being renovated to allow Crossroads to move there. Essentially the services are swapping locations.
“Balmoral Centre has served our community for 35 years, but the withdrawal management program has really outgrown that site,” said Vice President of Clinical & Community Health, Andrea Docherty. “Our Oliver Road location is a large, accessible building where we will be able to deliver safer care with room to embed programming and spaces for healing and ceremony for Indigenous Peoples.”
The Balmoral Centre is expected to be ready to serve as Crossroads’ new home starting in the summer of 2025.
“To put it simply, we are swapping sites to better serve people now and into the future,” said President & CEO Janine Black. “Withdrawal management and Crossroads Centre play an important role in the continuum of care that St. Joseph’s Care Group offers, and we have worked hard to ensure there will be no disruption to the services provided by either program as they move to their new permanent location. The new spaces will allow us to improve the quality of care in our current programs and also provide space for potential expansions in the future.”
Crossroads Centre voluntarily joined the St. Joseph’s Care Group in April 2024, but the organization has been in operation since 1965.
The centre provides pre- and post-treatment for people living with addictions. Housed in a former elementary school on Oliver Road, it is in a much larger space than is needed, with parts of the building unused.
St. Joseph’s Care Group’s Balmoral Centre opened in 1989 as a 20-bed voluntary non-medical withdrawal management program.
Currently, the Balmoral Centre is operating a total of 25 beds including two temporary beds to meet local demand for withdrawal management.