Amethyst Addiction Center

Health Promotion

The fundamental goal of this program is to encourage women to create healthy lifestyle changes, through helping them take control of their lives

Programs offered include:

Women & Wellness
Childen's Drug Abuse Prevention Program
Children's Play Therapy Program

Women & Wellness

  • Exploring the many complex issues in their lives: poverty, violence, stress, anger, low self-esteem, cultural issues, too much responsibility
  • Making links between issues in their lives and coping mechanisms
  • Experiencing and discovering methods of raising one's self-esteem
  • Seeing change as a positive opportunity not fearful
  • Developing strategies to recognize their anger and learn how to effectively use anger in their lives
  • Identifying stress in their lives and learning appropriate stress reduction techniques
  • Developing social supports
  • Learning techniques to communicate effectively in an assertive way

These specialized workshops are 4-8 weeks in length.

  • Women Juggling Roles - This twelve-week lifestyles program was developed to address the needs of a large population of women, who may be at risk of using substances to cope with many complex issues in their lives: poverty, violence, lack of social support programs, too much responsibility
  • Self-Esteem - An eight-week in-depth look at self and focussing on a positive attitude
  • Change - A four-week program for creating healthy changes in our everyday lives
  • Anxiety - An eight-week program exploring and making behavioural changes as a coping mechanism
  • Anger Solutions - An eight-week program focussing on recognizing the emotion of anger and finding solutions to better manage it
  • Stress & Wellness - An eight-week program focussing on identifying and learning how to manage stress and stressors
  • Assertiveness - An eight-week program exploring coping mechanisms and making behavioural changes

Childen's Drug Abuse Prevention Program

Amethyst offers a Children's Health Promotion Program for 8 to 12 year-old girls and boys from the Ottawa-Carleton region whose parent(s) are in treatment recovery.

The children's program consists of eight sessions offered after school over eight consecutive weeks.

This experience helps the children to understand the importance of sharing feelings about addiction-related problems. From here, they can recognize and begin to deal with these feelings and xperiences.

In addition to learning about the addiction process the children are encouraged to develop attitudes which promote self-esteem -- feeling OK about themselves.

A Facilitator's Guide, written by Amethyst Women's Addiction Centre is available for you to order.

Children’s Play Therapy Program

This program is offered to 4-7 year-old girls and boys from the Ottawa Region who have a parent, guardian or sibling with a substance abuse and/or gambling problem and/or in recovery.

The 2½ hour six-week program helps the children understand what addiction is in simple terms. They also learn about: the different family dynamics and structures, how and who to talk to about their feelings, problem solving techniques, safety issues, simple stress management techniques and self-esteem.