Carrier Sekani Family Services (CSFS) Family Healing Centre

This proposal for CSFS will create a year-round addictions treatment centre, providing 36 treatment beds, 10 detox beds, and after-care support.

This will replace CSFS’s existing 14-bed Ormond Lake Treatment Centre, where operation is limited to May-October due to winter weather. The aging cabins lack access to adequate infrastructure to accommodate CSFS’s needs.

The new site is located at the former Tachick Lake resort, approximately 20mins/24km southwest from Vanderhoof, and 90mins/120km west from Prince George. The lake is part of traditional Saik’uz traditional territory and will play a large part in the facility’s land-based healing practices. Hunting, fishing, gathering, and fire pit + sweat lodge ceremonies are integrated into the Healing Centre’s design and cultural programming.

The proposed 2300m2 CSFS Family Healing Centre will include an intake + administration area, sleeping rooms for residents, a kitchen/dining centre, a therapy/activities area, and a stand-alone detox centre. The site is large enough to accommodate future long-term recovery units.

The site will also include a greenhouse and outdoor seasonal garden to grow vegetables and traditional Indigenous medicines for use of the facility. This project seeks to provide cultural-based healing for the urgent overdose crisis impacting the province, particularly First Nation communities in Northern BC.

https://www.csfs.org/projects/tachick-lake-healing-centre/ https://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/local-news/csfs-breaks-ground-on-long-awaited-northern-bc-treatment-centre-7134046 https://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/local-news/northern-bc-indigenous-healing-treatment-centre-moving-forward-3940347