Significant Achievements

• In 2006, partnership with the YWCA and Wigwamen Inc., JTC successfully submitted a proposal to build 300 units of affordable housing for women and children in downtown Toronto, slated for completion in 2009.
• In 2005, JTC was designated as the only women’s centre in Ontario to provide residential treatment for women with problem-gambling issues.
• In 2005, JTC was the only substance abuse treatment centre to offer an outdoor play space for children of mothers receiving services onsite.
• In 2004, and as part of the Ontario Early Childhood Development Initiative, JTC develops and provides ongoing ‘best practice’ and developmental support for agencies offering addiction-treatment services for pregnant and parenting women with children under six.
• In 2004, we received funding of $108,000 per year for three years from Transamerica Life Canada for child-development services and the creation of a clinical video for use in the treatment program.
• In 2003, JTC played a key role in the National Conference on Women and Substance Use, providing five speakers for this three-day event.
• In 2000, JTC played a key role in the founding of ‘Pathways to Healthy Families’– a pilot program working with pregnant and parenting women with substance use issues and their families who live in marginalized communities.
• In 1999, JTC assumed the lead role in the creation of the Ontario Women’s Addiction Advisory Network – a provincial electronic network to link women service-providers across Ontario.
• Since 1997, JTC has provided childcare and offered child-development services, mostly supported by private donations. Since its founding, this service has expanded to five times its original size, and now offers daily child development services.
• In 1997, JTC representatives served on both the Advisory Committee and as curriculum architects for the development of the Addictions Treatment and Prevention Program – a unique addictions curriculum at Georgian College.
• In 1993, JTC continues to offer an innovative trauma program for women in recovery, one of the only programs in the country specifically focused on survivors of physical and sexual trauma who are in recovery from drug and alcohol use.