Miklat Recovery

11/09/2025

Fishing trip with a few of the boys. 🎣 Caught a few undersized salmon, saw a few whales, and visited the sea lions. 🌊

11/02/2025

Here's our Brad C graduation video from June that somehow got missed while people were on holidays. (Sorry Brad) ❤️🎂

Brad is an incredible guy, very down to earth, hard working, honest, and easy going. As you can tell by the other clients, Brad was loved and respected while in treatment. He did an excellent job as the monitor, which often is a difficult position to take.

Brad is a local boy who has since moved on to second stage sober living, working full time but still finding time to stop by and spend time with the guys. He also spoke at the grand opening of the Arbutus building in Townsite. He's quite the guy, we love him very much!!!! ❤️ 🎉

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10/30/2025

As you step inside the new Miklat Recovery Arbutus Facility, you’ll find a plaque proudly displayed at the entrance — a symbol of generosity, hope, and community spirit.

Each name engraved upon it represents someone who believed in the power of recovery, who saw potential in transformation, and who helped make this beautiful space a reality.

To our funders and partners — the Ronald S. Roadburg Foundation, Blenheim Foundation, Powell River Community Forest, The Illahie Foundation, qathet Regional Hospital District, Province of British Columbia, Canadian Mental Health Association BC Division, City of Powell River, and all the families, businesses, and individuals listed — thank you from the bottom of our hearts. 💛

This plaque will forever remind us of your kindness and the difference you’ve made.
Because of you, countless men — and soon, women — will find new beginnings within these walls.

Together, we are rebuilding lives.
Together, we can. 🌿

10/18/2025

10/18/2025

10/18/2025

❤️ Come learn about the PR Community Forest and Salmon conservation at the same time! 🎣 🌲

PR Community Forest will again be at the "salmon expo" in support of our friends with the PR Salmon Society and we are hoping folks also take the opportunity to talk community forestry with us on the 18th.

10/13/2025

Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at Miklat Recovery! 🧡

This Thanksgiving feels extra special — our hearts are overflowing with gratitude as we celebrate the completion of the Together We Can Drug & Alcohol Recovery & Education Society - Miklat Recovery Arbutus Expansion Project. What began as a dream has now become a beautiful 12-bed recovery program that will change lives here in qathet/Powell River for years to come.

We’re thankful for every person who helped make this possible — our dedicated staff and residents, the skilled tradespeople and volunteers who gave their time and talent, and the many funders and community partners who believed in the vision from the very beginning. Your support turned an old firehall into a place of hope, healing, and new beginnings.

We also want to acknowledge and thank the Tla’amin Nation, on whose traditional lands we live and work. We’re deeply grateful to be your neighbours and to share this journey toward healing and community together.

As we reflect on this season of gratitude, we invite you to take a look through the photos from our Arbutus celebration — moments filled with joy, laughter, hard work, and community spirit. Each photo tells a story of what’s possible when people come together to care for one another.

From all of us at Miklat, thank you for helping bring this vision to life. We wish you a warm and peaceful Thanksgiving surrounded by friends, family, and gratitude.

Photo Credit - Anji Smith Fotos

*The last 6 photos are from before the building opened, I wanted to make sure most of the building was covered in the photos.

10/01/2025

Today, on the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, our men volunteered to help with traffic, and walked from Tis’kwat—a sacred place where the Tla’amin people have lived for generations and where new affordable housing is now being built for their Nation—down to ʔayʔaǰuθəm (Willingdon Beach).

As neighbours, we are deeply grateful to share this land and community with Tla’amin. Miklat’s Arbutus Program sits beside this historic site, and we are reminded daily of the resilience, strength, and generosity of those who came before us.

May this day move us all to listen more deeply, to honour truth, and to walk together in reconciliation. 🧡

09/27/2025

Now we're starting to warm up, two more graduations today! 🔥

Steve M has been a great client, selflessly driving all the clients to meetings and events. He's also an excellent chef and filled everyone's belly when we needed him in the kitchen. Steve's a standup guy and we'll miss having him in care, but he's a local boy so he's never far away.

Harry is one heck of an artist and craftsman, from woodwork to paint, to fixing up old bikes. Harry is one amazing handyman, and a character to match! We love Harry and look forward to watching him grow in his recovery and craft a new life in our sober living housing.

Congrats you two, we're so proud of you!!!

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