Parents of a recent resident credit the New Roads Therapeutic Recovery Community for saving their son’s life
Feeding his drug and alcohol addiction — and spending time in jail — filled Tyson Airaksinen’s world before he found his way to the New Roads Therapeutic Recovery Community in View Royal.
“I became complacent and was hit with two significant losses in my life, which led me to a two-and-a-half-year relapse.”“Since being here, having that connection again, having brotherhood, a healthy community, I’ve been able to look deeper inside and realize what I was running from.” “We find ourselves amidst a drug crisis, an overdose crisis and an ever-increasing, record-breaking death toll from drug use in our society,” said Our Place executive director Julian Daly. “I think it can feel like a very dark time we’re in, very bleak and quite hopeless at times.The New Roads centre gives him cause for optimism, Daly said.
While the province provides most of the funding, donations have also been important to the program, Daly said. New Roads director Cheryl Diebel said the program has important features that make it unique, including how long residents stay at the facility. The program has four phases that residents advance through as they gain confidence, learn life skills and discover how to change certain behaviours, he said.
The centre includes a cultural room, run by a “very loved” Indigenous elder, a sweat lodge built by residents, an exercise room with donated equipment, a gymnasium and a therapeutic garden.As a former devotee of martial arts, he said the physical aspect of recovery is a focus for him, and he has lost about 25 pounds during his stay.
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