New facility will combine several youths substance abuse programs
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This article was published 12/06/2012 (5181 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
WINNIPEG — Young people will no longer be detained at the Manitoba Youth Centre if they’re picked up by police drunk or high on drugs under a plan by the province to build a new detox facility in St. Boniface.
Health Living Minister Jim Rondeau said Monday the new centre will also house several programs that deal with youth substance abuse.
Also involved in the project, slated to open early next year, are the Catholic Health Corporation and Marymound.
Marymound has operated a five-bed youth drug-stabilization unit since 2006, but not for youth who are held under the Intoxicated Persons Detention Act.
“Right now we have three separate programs,” Rondeau said. “We have the Intoxicated Persons Detention Act, we have some other programs we offer through Marymound and the Behavioral Health Foundation and we’re going to put them altogether.”
The operating cost of the centre, to be located in renovated warehouse on Provencher near Archibald, is forecast to be more than $1 million a year, he added.
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