** Aurora Centre **
Located in Vancouver at BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre, the Aurora Centre has been providing addiction treatment services to women for over thirty years.
Aurora is the largest women’s-only treatment facility in B.C. providing both residential and day treatment services with twenty-nine beds and space for ten people in the day treatment program. We also conduct research on women and addictions and take a leadership role in promoting improved addiction services to women in B.C.
If you choose the Aurora Centre, you can count on a treatment experience provided within an atmosphere of safety, trust, and respect. Our programs are grounded in the belief that with the assistance of expert, caring professionals, and the mutual support of fellow participants, women can and do recover from the harms associated with misuse of alcohol and other drugs. We help women learn healthier ways of living, how to increase their self-esteem, and to discover the power within themselves to change their lives for the better.
We know our treatment works: Studies conducted three to six months post-treatment consistently show that over 90 per cent of former clients contacted report either complete abstinence, or abstinence following a brief relapse. As well, our clients report improved physical and emotional health, and improved relationships, vocational status and spiritual awareness.
We pride ourselves on providing the best in care to women who have substance use problems, and strive to continually evaluate and improve our services based on what clients tell us works, as well as what the latest research suggests as best practice.
** Mission & Philosophy **
The mission of the Aurora Centre is to improve the lives of women affected by substance use through treatment, research, training, education, and advocacy
Our approach to treatment is women-centred and based on the following beliefs
* A welcoming, safe, supportive treatment environment helps women examine
their substance use, the connections between their use and other issues in
their lives, and the changes they wish to make to improve their lives.
* It is important to support changes in all aspects of women’s health – their
physical health, their emotional health, their relationships and vocational
situations, and their spiritual awareness.
* It is important to create the opportunity for women to learn from, and with,
each other in the context of a therapeutic community.
* It is the right of women to be informed participants in their own health
care, to have choices and control their own bodies.
* It is important to be responsive to the diverse needs of women with
substance use problems, and within our programs, to address all forms of
discrimination experienced by women.
* It is important to support the empowerment of women with substance use
problems, and to work towards the achievement of equality for all women.
