Survey: Interested Community

Who we are
Eli's Place is a non-profit residential mental health program in Ontario, a working farm where clinical care, meaningful work and community are part of everyday life, and where young adults living with serious mental illness build a life worth living.

Why we are asking
Eli's Place is preparing to open in Ontario later this fall. We want to understand the people who are interested in what we are building, what draws them to it, and how they might want to be part of it. Your answers will help us shape how we tell our story and how we involve the people who care about this work.

This survey is anonymous
We do not ask for your name or contact details anywhere in this survey. Responses are held securely and reported only in summary. After you submit, you will be redirected to a separate, optional form where you can sign up for Eli's Place updates. Anything you enter there stays separate from your answers here.

You can skip anything
The survey is short and takes approximately 15 minutes. You can skip any question, and most offer 'Prefer not to say'.

If you need support now
If you are in crisis or thinking about suicide, you can call or text 9-8-8 any time, free, in Canada and the US, or contact your local emergency services. This survey is anonymous and no one monitors your answers, so please don't use it to ask for help in the moment.

If you have questions about this survey, you can contact us at https://elisplace.org/contact/

By continuing, you are agreeing that you have read and understood the description above.

A few questions about your interest and what draws you to Eli's Place.

Here is a short description of Eli's Place. Please read it, then tell us how it comes across.

Recovery isn't simply a clinical event. It's a life we lead.
Eli's Place is a working farm north of Guelph, Ontario, where every part of life is designed to support recovery. It is not a hospital and not a crisis service. It is the recovery that comes after, for people ready to take it up. For young adults living with serious mental illness, it will be the first long-term therapeutic community in Canada to bring clinical care, meaningful work and belonging together in one place.

Guests will live here for around six months. There is real work to do on the land, clinical care alongside it, and the ordinary business of a life shared with other people. What makes it work is the combination and the time. Support from Eli's Place continues past the stay itself, through each Guest's move on to housing, education and work.

Eli's Place is for young adults between 18 and 35 living with serious mental illness.

Coming here will be a choice. Guests will arrive voluntarily and will be free to withdraw from the program at any time. The program will ask a great deal of the people in it: turning up to work, living closely with others, taking part in the life of the community day after day. It will suit someone past the acute stage of their illness and ready to use a long stretch of time to build something, rather than someone in immediate crisis. Where substance use is part of the picture, it will need to be settled rather than active.

Loyola House will be a home, not a hospital ward. Guests will look after themselves day to day, managing the ordinary business of daily living independently. Around that, Eli's Place will provide what makes it possible: a room of one's own, meals shared with the community, clinical care on site, and staff who take part in the life of the community alongside Guests.

No one will do this alone. Every Guest will have at least one family member or other committed support person who takes part in their treatment and in planning for what comes next. This is not a formality. Recovery has to hold after the stay ends, and it holds better when the people closest to a Guest have been part of building it.

As we open, we want to keep the people who care about Eli's Place connected. Tell us what you would most want to see.

Thank you for taking the time. These answers will shape how we describe Eli's Place, how we plan for our first year, and what we learn about the need for programs like this in Canada.

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