Sustainable Recovery Beyond Adeara’s One-Year Program
Completing Adeara’s one‑year Addiction Recovery Program marks a significant clinical and personal milestone. While returning to the community and moving toward independent living represents progress, this period can also present heightened vulnerability.
Clients are often balancing numerous responsibilities at once, including caring for their physical health, supporting their mental and emotional wellbeing, rebuilding relationships, securing employment, housing, and rediscovering their purpose. Many of these responsibilities unfold with limited external support. This stage of transition requires learning to live an entirely new life in recovery by establishing healthy routines, safe relationships, and meaningful connections.
Without consistent, supportive care during this adjustment, the risk of relapse or returning to previous patterns can increase. Adeara recognizes the importance of this season and responds with ongoing, relational care.
Addiction Recovery Program
Adeara provides in-depth addiction programming over the course of one year, designed to address the whole person. This serves as the foundation for the Recovery Support Program, which clients can apply for after completing the Addiction Recovery Program.
Donor-Supported Program
Our program runs largely on donations from generous individuals, keeping recovery affordable for women who wouldn’t otherwise be able to access our support. See the difference you helped make this year.
The Recovery Support Program
Adeara’s Recovery Support Program was developed in response to the unique challenges client’s face as they navigate the post‑residential stage of recovery. The program is designed to strengthen stability and encourage growth by addressing the interconnected biological, psychological, social, and spiritual factors that contribute to long‑term recovery. Adeara remains relationally engaged as clients grow in confidence, stability, and independence, adjusting support as their needs evolve.
By remaining present beyond the residential program, Adeara helps reduce the risk of relapse and promotes sustained wellbeing across all areas of life. Grounded in our faith in Christ and our belief in the inherent worth and potential of every woman, we are committed to walking the long journey of recovery together by offering grace, accountability, and hope as women rebuild their lives.
The following are the key components of our Recovery Support Program.
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Continued Therapeutic Support
Healthy, consistent relationships remain central to recovery. Through one‑to‑one Recovery Support, women receive individualized care from a clinician who understands their history, strengths, and ongoing challenges. Clinicians will provide encouragement, accountability, and support during periods of stress, transition, or crisis. We collaborate with clients to connect them with Adeara resources such as parenting and family supports, spiritual groups, and internal programming, as well as with appropriate community‑based addiction recovery supports. This individualized support system remains available to all past clients for as long as they choose to stay connected, ensuring continuity of care as they grow in confidence, stability, and independence.
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Empowerment for Independent Living
As clients move into greater independence, personalized guidance plays a vital role in reducing stress and supporting overall wellbeing. Through individualized and practical assistance, the Recovery Support Program helps clients navigate priorities such as education, housing, budgeting, time management, and other essential daily‑living skills. A newly added employabilities component supports clients as they prepare for, enter, and thrive in the workforce. This process begins with hands‑on work experience at Adeara’s own, More Than a Fad Thrift Store. Here clients build foundational workplace habits in a supportive environment. From there, they can engage in additional skill‑building opportunities that may include pre‑employment training, résumé and cover‑letter development, interview preparation, increased understanding of employer expectations, and job‑search guidance. As these employability supports expand, Adeara’s long‑term vision includes developing new pathways, such as internships and partnerships with local businesses, to help clients gain meaningful experience and move toward independence with increasing confidence and stability.
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Recovery‑Focused Community
Sustainable recovery is strengthened by healthy social connections. The Recovery Support Program offers a safe, recovery‑oriented community where clients experience belonging, encouragement, and mutual support. Through mentorship, peer engagement, and shared learning, clients continue developing healthy relationships and appropriate boundaries. Foundations of Recovery courses are available to all clients connected to Adeara and are delivered biweekly online. These psycho‑educational sessions reinforce key concepts from the residential program and support ongoing engagement in recovery. Topics include relapse prevention, boundaries, healthy relationships, parenting, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, all of which help clients remain focused, supported, and connected.
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Transition House
The Transition House Program offers continued recovery support and accountability within a safe and structured living environment, while also giving clients the opportunity to save and prepare for the future. As an extension of Adeara’s residential program, the Transition House, named Labonte Manor, serves clients who have completed the one‑year program and are continuing recovery independently while pursuing education or vocational opportunities. While living in the Transition House, clients maintain active engagement in their recovery through regular meetings with a clinician, participation in Foundations of Recovery, and access to external recovery supports. This environment balances growing independence with meaningful structure, accountability, and connection.
Labonte Manor
Thanks to the incredible generosity of one individual, last year, Adeara was able to acquire a fourplex to serve as a transition house—now named Labonte Manor in honour of the donor who made it possible.

Mental Health Services Protection Act
Adeara is a licensed service provider under the provisions of the Part 1 Mental Health Services Protect Act to provide Residential Addiction Treatment Services in Alberta. View our license here.

CAC Accreditation
Adeara is an accredited addictions recovery centre. We are accredited through the Canadian Accreditation Council (CAC), the nationally recognized leader in standards excellence.