Safe Harbour strengthening transitional stabilization program

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“Too often, systems focus on preventing a crisis but overlook what happens after someone has taken the first steps toward recovery,” said Kelli Steele-Stanton, Executive Director of Safe Harbour Society for Health & Housing. “Recovery is not a single event. It is a journey that requires ongoing support, coordination, and connection. Prevention also means preventing a return to homelessness, a return to crisis, or a return to substance use by ensuring people have the right supports, at the right time, for as long as they need them.”

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Transitional stabilization is designed to support individuals who are ready to move forward in their recovery journey but require additional time, stability, and coordinated supports, including accommodations with access to dedicated stabilization beds, while awaiting admission to a recovery community, transitioning from detox, securing housing, reconnecting with healthcare services, or establishing longer-term recovery plans.

“Recovery does not begin and end with detox, nor does it begin and end with treatment,” said Kelli Steele-Stanton, Executive Director of Safe Harbour Society for Health & Housing. “For many people, the most vulnerable point in their recovery journey is the transition between services. Transitional Stabilization exists to ensure people are supported during those critical periods and do not fall through the gaps.”

Safe Harbour currently operates transitional stabilization beds alongside its medical detox program, PARC navigation services, diversion teams, housing stabilization supports, and many healing blankets, recovery and wellness programming.

The organization has identified a growing demand for these stabilization and recovery-transition supports across Central Alberta. As part of its 2027–2030 Strategic Plan, Safe Harbour is actively pursuing opportunities to strengthen transitional stabilization programming and planning for future expansion of stabilization bed capacity to address increasing regional demand.

“Central Alberta benefits when we focus on strengthening the continuum of care as a system,” she added. “Our goal is to ensure that individuals can move seamlessly between crisis response, stabilization, recovery, housing, healthcare, and long-term wellness supports without encountering unnecessary barriers.”