LGBTQ2 addiction recovery program secures funding, opens intake in Winnipeg

When JP Grimard first began his betterment from addiction, he would person loved a abstraction wherever he could speak openly astir each aspects of his life.

“I was nan only cheery personification there, truthful I didn’t consciousness wholly comfortable to talk astir my experiences pinch bullying, trauma, intersexual identity, which are a immense portion of who we are,” Grimard says.

Now, years later, he runs one. The Rainbow Outpatient Addiction Recovery Program, aliases ROAR, is Winnipeg’s first free betterment programme specifically for group successful nan LGBTQ2 community.

Clients meet doubly a week for 16 weeks, and Grimard says that during a four-month aviator programme ROAR began past year, 100 per cent of nan clients reduced aliases wholly eliminated their supplier use.

ROAR has now secured backing to proceed nan programme opening successful September, collaborated pinch Our Own Health Centre successful Osborne Village. Grimard wants to support it going indefinitely, truthful group who request it wouldn’t person to hold for support.

“I deliberation it would conscionable beryllium specified a important summation to wellness services successful Winnipeg. There wouldn’t beryllium immoderate hold times aliases hold lists. The programme would beryllium rolling pinch an ongoing intake.”

Because it’s free for clients, Grimard says nan programme tin scope group who wouldn’t person considered curen otherwise, and they’re much apt to instrumentality pinch a programme that’s built astir their experiences.

“They get a batch of applicable skills, dealing pinch triggers and cravings, knowing their encephalon successful recovery,” Grimard says. He adds that nan programme besides looks astatine components of what it is for illustration to unrecorded pinch homophobia, transphobia, biphobia, really those issues impact members of nan community, and what effect those issues mightiness perchance person connected supplier use.

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Intake for September is open, and caller participants tin get successful touch by contacting roar@ourownhealth.ca aliases 204-900-6048.