Isuarsivik restructures for 2006

After closing down to clients in October following the firing of its director, the Isuarsivik Treatment Centre in Kuujjuaq has embarked on a restructuring, said board president Dave Forrest.

The new board of directors will receive training, while a task force and ad hoc committees are carrying out a complete review of the centre’s internal operations. The search for a new centre director continues.

“We decided to take a negative and turn it into a positive,” Forrest said.

A new treatment cycle will begin early next year.

Until then, Forrest said the centre will assist Nunavimmiut who want addiction treatment to find other treatment programs in Ottawa or Goose Bay.

“If people are serious, they will be looked after,” Forrest said.

AA programs are offered twice weekly at the Catholic Mission in Kuujjuaq, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8 p.m