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Manchester’s the Heavy Drinkers’ project is a residential Managed Alcohol Program with one core house with 15 outlying houses. The core house has seven bedsits and seven one-bedroom flats with support workers available 24 hours a day. Residents in the outlying houses can call the office for assistance but the idea is they are to live independently as far as possible including monitoring their own alcohol intake.
Canada has five managed alcohol programs. In Ottawa, the Targeted Engagement and Diversion program (TED) has 12 beds for men and two for women. TED is placed within a larger housing complex where other residents include families with children. The rationale behind having a MAP incorporated into a regular housing building was that families drink alcohol at home and children are exposed to that. Some residents are in Opioid Substitution Treatment (OST) as well. There are 80 other residents at TED who are not in the MAP.
Also in Ottawa, the OAKS opened in 2010 and has 55 beds of which 10 are for the mentally ill. Some 15-20 residents have lived there since it opened.
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