The Managed Alcohol Program (MAP) offered by Projets autochtones du Qu\u00e9bec (PAQ) is, first and foremost, a housing service. 8 Indigenous men, living in a situation of chronic homelessness and suffering from a severe addiction to alcohol, can participate in it. It is a pilot program of permanent housing, which allows users to take part in a program aiming to reduce their dependance to alcohol. Its goal is to curb the obstacles to supervised housing and reduce the acute, chronic and social harms stemming from that dependence.<\/p>\n
The MAP house residents make breakfast and lunch by themselves, every day. On the weekends, they cook dinner in the shared kitchen. Learning to cook is a fundamental life skill that is worked on every day as part of the MAP. To support the residents, groceries are delivered every week and the refrigerator is filled with healthy foodstuffs. Learning to plan, prepare and cook food takes time. This is why the mastery of those skills is integrated into PAQ’s Managed Alcohol Program.<\/p>\n
Other program objectives for residents are:<\/span><\/p>\n