Addiction Services
Mission Services provides flexible, evidence-based addiction support to help individuals navigate their recovery journey with dignity. Our programs offer group and one-on-one support, harm reduction, and housing assistance, meeting people where they are while guiding them toward stability.
We also offer groups for family and friends of loved ones who use substances.
Suntrac Treatment Program
A structured, flexible treatment program offering group and individual support, with both daytime and evening options to fit clients’ needs.
Learn if Suntrac is Right For You
Program Overview
Suntrac incorporates best practices and evidence-based programming in the treatment of alcohol and drug use. We serve people 19 and older in Hamilton and the surrounding area. Our services are free and confidential.
Our program provides individualized supports to people seeking to make changes around their substance use and navigate their path to wellness. From stopping all substance use, cutting out a particular substance, or learning to use substances in a way that is less harmful to you.
While our services primarily focus on matters related to addictions, we recognize the importance of a holistic approach in one’s journey to recovery. We help people to meet their goals and needs in mental health wellness, physical health, housing, employment, legal matters, relationship and support networking, education, and other areas of life.
The Suntrac program consists of two phases: Core and Aftercare. Each phase supports your journey by working with you to clarify your goals, develop the skills and resources you need to meet them, and support your growth and progress toward improved health.
Treatment Steps
Core Treatment
8 weeks in length; 4 groups a week – day or evening classes
Individual sessions with your Addictions Worker to help you better understand addiction and set goals for recovery
Aftercare
With the guidance of your Addictions Worker, you will develop an Aftercare plan that consists of ongoing support from Suntrac Aftercare groups, as well as additional groups, supports, and resources in the community that can assist you in meeting your ongoing recovery goals. Suntrac Aftercare groups will provide you with an environment to reinforce the skills learned in the Core phase of treatment, as well as discover additional opportunities for personal growth from others who are living in recovery.
Program Features
Continuous Intake – You can get started right away!
Day and Evening Group Programs – We will work with you to minimize any time away from work or your family to get the substance use support that you are looking for.
Personalized Intake and Assessment – You will develop a plan tailor-made to your situation and goals.
Individual Treatment Plans – You will choose your path through the program from a range of options.
Case Management Support – You will work with an Addictions Worker who will provide active support to help you meet your goals.
Links to Mental Health Services and Supports – You can also get support for identifying and managing your mental health needs.
How Suntrac Helps
Each year, the lives of over 1,500 clients are touched through the addiction programs at Mission Services.
Seeing relationships restored, goals reached, and people finding their way forward is the ultimate measure of success for addictions workers.
“My journey continues on, and I wouldn’t be alive today if it wasn’t for them, so I make sure to thank them often. Mission Services saved my life.” – Patricia, former Suntrac client
Partners in Recovery
Offered by Suntrac Addiction Treatment Centre. The group provides support, information, and education for family and friends (19 or older) of loved ones who use substances.
Learn if Partners in Recovery is Right For You
Partners in Recovery seeks to help others in understanding addiction and its effects and gain skills and insight through education and a group support.
Care and support from loved ones is vital to recovery. In these group sessions, you can help loved ones by learning about the recovery process and how you can support your loved one’s goals in a caring, informed, compassionate way.
Please call or email for information on group times, and to sign up.
Addiction Supportive Housing (ASH)
Providing housing supports and case management for individuals in recovery who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.
Learn if ASH is Right For You
ASH is a program for men aged 19 or older who are facing challenges with housing, and who have recently completed or been involved with an addiction treatment program.
ASH’s purpose is to help find stable housing that supports recovery and helps with transitioning into independence while providing intensive case management.
Please call or email for more details on the program.
Outcome-Focused Harm Reduction
On-site supports at emergency shelters and drop-in centers, offering education, connections to treatment options, and other associated health and housing services.
Contact
Meet Greg!
Director of Addiction Services
“This isn’t just another job, you have to be passionate about helping people change their lives.”
Meet April!
Manager of Addiction Services
“We celebrate the small wins as well as the big wins. If someone is willing to open up and begin working on their recovery journey, that’s always a win. Taking that first step is so important.”
Stories From Addiction Services
When drug addiction left Patricia with nowhere else to go, she turned to Mission Services. That decision saved her life.
Read A Light in Her Darkest Hour to find out how!
Addiction Services workers help clients find their way forward.
Read A Passion for Changing Lives to find out how.