Overview

Start date: Prior to September 1, 2026

Closing date: June 22, 2026

Eli's Place Residential Treatment and Transition Centre (Eli's Place) exists because Ontario's mental health system, built around short stays, institutional settings and crisis response, cannot currently offer young adults with serious mental illness what they actually need — sustained recovery, resilience and the life and work skills to move forward. We are building something different. Canada's first long-term rural residential therapeutic community, where time, meaningful work and community life are the conditions for recovery.

Eli's Place will provide long-term residential care for young adults aged 18 to 35 living with serious mental illness, on a 600-acre farm and conservation property north of Guelph. Guests live and work together as a therapeutic community, combining individualized clinical treatment with structured, meaningful work in horticulture, conservation and l...