About Rideauwood
Rideauwood is a community leader and a specialist in substance use, behavioural addictions and mental health issues.
We are deeply committed to creating a compassionate and caring culture where clients feel empowered to make choices that work for them.
Our depth of experience stems from our more than 50 years of supporting clients with our expertise, compassion, and care.
All Rideauwood programs are based on evidence-based best practices with adaptability and collaboration in mind. Consistently high levels of client satisfaction and dedicated, passionate staff ensure that we continually evolve our services and client experience to meet emerging needs.
We actively search for funding sources as well as strategic partnerships that allow us to expand our service offering for clients in need of support.
Vision
Healthy
Connected
Community
Mission
To provide person-centered treatment, prevention and education to those affected by substance use, addiction and mental health issues in Ottawa and the surrounding region.
Values
Quality
Respect
Compassion
Accountability
Equity and Diversity
Our Impact
Our History
- Rideauwood opens with a three-year pilot start-up grant from Health Canada.
- Launched programming to support family members, an innovative practice at the time that is now considered best practice.
- Launched first in-school treatment program in Ottawa.
- Launched first problem gambling program in Eastern Ontario.
- Began providing, in partnership with St. Mary's Home, addiction treatment services to pregnant teens and young women. Today this program has been broadened to all young people who are pregnant or parenting.
- Began providing addiction treatment services to homeless clients of the Canadian Mental Health Association's Ottawa branch concurrent disorders program.
- Began providing addiction treatment services for Ottawa's chronic Ontario Works participants through the Addiction Service Initiative.
- Became the treatment provider for Ottawa's Drug Treatment Court program.
- Joined Project STEP, a community wide response related to the support, treatment, education and prevention of youth addiction in Ottawa.
- Initiated a Rapid Access Opioid Treatment (RAOT) program for youth and families in response to the increased presence of fentanyl, to the increasing use of opioids and to the opioid crisis.
- Achieved a comprehensive re-design of all services informed by evidence-based practice, client feedback and staff engagement.
- Received the Community Builder Award, along with other Project STEP partners, from the United Way.
- Expanded program offering to include problematic use of technology (gaming, social media, etc.)
- Appeared as an expert witness to the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology to comment on Bill C-45, the legislation concerning the legalization of cannabis.
- Broadened the RAOT program to include adults, rename program to Urgent Substance Use Treatment (USUT) and began including other urgent substance use disorders.
- Launched Early Intervention Drug Treatment Court pilot program.
- Adapted and redesigned services in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
- Accreditation Canada awards Rideauwood Primer status.
- Accreditation Canada awards Rideauwood Accreditation with Commendation status.