The Jean Tweed Centre was established in 1983 and named after Jean Shannon Tweed – a woman who saw the need for a safe and supportive environment for women to address their substance use issues. Jean Tweed was a pioneer in advancing the cause of women-specific programming. The Centre was named in her honour.Since its founding, the Centre has evolved and grown to become a leading community-based substance abuse, mental health and problem gambling agency for women in Ontario. The Centre offers a wide range of services including residential and day programming, out-patient programming including family and trauma counseling, individualized counselling and continuing care. Outreach services are available for pregnant and parenting women as well as women who have concurrent mental health and substance use problems and involvement in the criminal justice system. In keeping with our focus on women, parenting and children, the Centre also offers a fully licensed therapeutic child development centre on site more... See more text