Men’s Site History
1968–2014
- Mennonite Mission and Services Board open Rockhaven
- Camp Easy Does It donate to Rockhaven men for summer use
- Mortgage burning for Rockhaven
- Purchase Camp Easy Does It and land
- Bill Marsh(ED) retires after 28 years
- Purchase 396 Brady Street and Open Beyond the Rock Transition House
- Patricia Delyea(ED) retires after 35+ years
- Amalgamated with Iris Addiction Recovery for Women to form Monarch Recovery Services
Women’s Site History
1976–2012
- Women’s Recovery Home on Riverside Dr. opens
- Women’s Recovery Home moves to Ramsey Rd. location
- Janyce Bain form Transition House Task Force to look at need for Women’s after care program/residence
- Receive notice that Robins Hill After Care annualized funding has been approved by the Ministry of Health
- Indigenous After Care funding approved by Health Canada at the Women’s Recovery Home
- After being temporarily located at Women’s Recovery Home, Robins Hill moves to 11 Fir Lane
- Women’s Recovery Home receives Ministry of Health funding to become Lakeside Centre Treatment Program
- Robins Hill moves into new building at 260 Oak St.
- Lakeside moves into new building at Ramsey Rd. location
- First Families in Recovery Weekend held by Robins Hill
- Robins Hill provides first lesbian-specific addiction programming in Ontario
- Boards of Lakeside Centre and Robins Hill meet to discuss possibility of amalgamation
- Both agencies hold joint annual meeting to announce amalgamation and new name of Northern Regional Recovery Continuum (NRRC)
- First Harmonizing and Enriching your Recovery (HER), 1 week recovery enrichment program, held at NRRC treatment site
- 2002 NRRC launches Pregnancy/Parenting Program (PPOP)
- NRRC receives French Language Services partial designation
- Women For Sobriety group starts at treatment site
- NRRC changes name to Iris Addiction Recovery for Women
- Trauma and Recovery Group is offered at Iris After Care
- New funder is the Northeast Local Health Integration Network (LHIN)
- Connections program starts at Iris Treatment
- First Keeping Women Empowered (KWE), 5 day treatment enhancement program for Aboriginal women, is held
- First Mother/Daughter Weekend is held
- Women Who Love Too Much group is started
- Addictions Rent Supplement Program (ASH) begins
- Emergency Room Substance Abuse Workers (ERSAWs) in Health Sciences North (partnership with HSN)
Monarch Recovery Services History
2014–Present
- Iris Addiction Recovery for Women and Rockhaven integrate and form Monarch Recovery Services
- ERSAWs no longer in HSN Emergency
- Monarch joins Shared Space Project to look at new building for its services