Prairie Sky Recovery Centre to transition to a Men’s-Only facility to coincide with men’s mental health month

Hoffman also mentioned that the facility offers programming for workplace recovery.

“Focusing on mining, oil and gas sectors. Those kinds of work away camps and agriculture-based programs. Looking at how can we support them when they’re returning to work, how can we support the employers?” she said. “Not that there aren’t females in that in those industries, but it’s just predominantly a male kind of industries.”

The facility has also seen some cases of trauma bonding, which is something they look to avoid.

“When two people go through some pretty in-depth material, they form these bonds and they feel that it’s very significant. It can be very overwhelming for them in that timeframe when they’re kind of creating these trauma bonds and it can become a distraction to their program,” said Hoffman.

She also mentioned that trauma bonding can have long-term effects and could affect clients’ families as well.

While the switch is to men’s only, Hoffman said the goal is to offer single-sex treatment. A big reason they went to men’s only is that most of their clients are men, with an approximately 70-30 split.

“If it was flipped around the other way, then we would be going to an all-female facility. But being that we are like a 70-30 split, we of course are going with the larger demographic that we’ve always served,” said Hoffman, who made it clear that the change isn’t a comment on who deserves support.

“We’re not doing this because we don’t believe that women are not worthy of healing. It’s just that we really wanted to have that psychological safety. Because we’ve been primarily male dominated in our in our service delivery, we thought this made the most sense for our facility.”

Women who are currently at the facility will still be offered aftercare, so they won’t be completely cut off, but the centre won’t be accepting any women as of June 1.

PSRC will be the second men’s-only recovery facility in Saskatchewan, joining Village of Hope, a Christian men’s recovery centre in Eston.

As a private facility, PSRC doesn’t have wait times and people can call to book themselves in. More information about the program is available on the Prairie Sky Recovery Centre website.

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Ryan.Lambert@pattisonmedia.com

by Ryan Lambert

Prairie Sky Recovery Centre to transition to a Men’s-Only facility to coincide with men’s mental health month

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