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A healing farm

Where recovery grows

Eli’s Place will be a rural, residential treatment centre for young adults with serious mental illness focused on promoting sustainable recovery and resilience through the acquisition of life and work skills within a therapeutic community. In addition to our core mission, we are actively engaged in education aimed at raising awareness and understanding of severe mental health challenges within the broader community.

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The need

We must close the existing gap in care

For many of the 160,000 young adults in Ontario with serious mental illness, traditional clinical therapy is not enough. Lacking access to long-term holistic residential care, these young adults cycle in and out of acute care in hospital ERs. The threat of suicide is real with more than 1 in 7 reporting suicidal ideation.

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The solution

Canada’s first therapeutic farm

Based on an effective and proven model, Eli’s Place will offer young adults with serious mental illness a farm-based, long-term residential treatment and recovery program. Community living, meaningful work and individualized therapeutic care will nurture a growth mindset in our clients. Transitional care as clients move back into the community will be available as individual needs evolve.

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What Leading Mental Illness Practitioners Have to Say

Eli’s Place will provide critically needed, long-term, recovery-based intervention in an environment that is not available currently in Ontario. Although these rural, skills-based models are available in the US and internationally, Ontario does not have this kind of resource and it is sorely needed.
Dr. Anthony LevittChief of the Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program and Medical Director of the Family Navigation Project, at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
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I believe that many young adults with severe mental illness would benefit from a rural long-term recovery model of care. Eli’s Place can provide something unique for people with mental illness who are looking for a holistic and integrated and empowering approach to their recovery.
Dr. Ari ZaretskyPsychiatrist-in-Chief, Department of Psychiatry and Vice-President, Education at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
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We're Hiring!

Eli’s Place is hiring an Executive Director to lead the opening and growth of our new residential treatment centre for young adults (18–35) living with serious mental illness. The centre will be based in Guelph, Ontario (with a minimum of three days per week on site at launch). The Executive Director will serve as the Chief Executive and operational leader, responsible for bringing the organization’s vision to life.

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Interested candidates are invited to submit a cover letter and CV, addressed to Cathy Preston, by email to cathy@phcap.ca. The application deadline is February 6, 2026 at 5:00 pm ET.

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