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What is the Attendants Review Committee?

Hello CACCF Members,

As CACCF continues to meet with Treatment Centre Providers across Canada, new and interesting ideas and solutions to our very strained industry are often discussed.

Recently the common discussion has been around hiring people into “attendant” roles at treatment centres to help fill the gap between front line and counsellors – which as we know are all in short supply.

CACCF is pleased to call together a committee to discuss the use of Attendants in residential treatment and how we may leverage these attendants to help fill roles that are currently open. The Committee will also be discussing the job analysis of these attendants, who are they? Where do they come from? What roles do they perform? How much are they paid? How can they contribute to the gaps in service? Is Certification for them something that would be beneficial? What training would you find beneficial to them?

The Committee will be chaired by Aaron Sinclair of Denovo Treatment Centre and we thank him for his passion in finding solutions to the gaps existing in the residential treatment systems regarding the attendant roles.

Who would make a good committee member for this committee? You would currently employ or work with Attendants in your role. You may call them Assistants, attendants or something else at your place of work but they generally are the folks who are not counsellors but who work the front lines in a variety of other ways.

If this is a committee you would be interested in participating on, to build the role of an addiction attendant across Canada, please fill out our Committee Sign Up form to express your interest!

Committee Members:

Jeffory Lucas

Jeremy Williams

Jonathan Mercier

Mindy Coates

Sarah Montes

Sheena Tenielle