Ontario Opens Homelessness and Addiction Recovery Treatment Hub in Lanark County

December 5, 2025

Province supporting community safety and addiction recovery with 28 HART Hubs delivering care across Ontario

December 5, 2025

SMITHS FALLS — The Ontario government is expanding access to high-quality mental health and addictions care with the launch of a new Homelessness and Addiction Recovery Treatment (HART) Hub in Smiths Falls. This is part of the province’s almost $550 million investment to open 28 HART Hubs across Ontario to protect the safety of children and families, while improving access to recovery and treatment services for people facing housing instability, mental health and substance use challenges.

“We are building a stronger, more connected system of mental health and addictions care that better reflects the needs of communities and focuses on lasting recovery,” said Vijay Thanigasalam, Associate Minister for Mental Health and Addictions. “The opening of this new HART Hub will ensure that people struggling with mental health and addictions challenges in Lanark County and surrounding communities, can get the care they need on their path to recovery, while keeping the community safe.”

HART Hubs connect people to a range of comprehensive treatment and recovery services such as primary care, mental health services, addictions care, social services and employment support.

The HART Hub is operated in collaboration with Lanark, Leeds and Grenville Addictions and Mental Health (LLGMAH), and has two locations. The Smith Falls site will begin delivering services starting in December, with the Brockville site expected to open in spring 2026. The Hub brings together a collaborative network of clinical, social service and care providers working together to connect individuals with the supports they need, when they need them.

Together, these partners deliver services tailored to the needs of the community, such as:

  • Mental health services including counselling and peer support
  • Primary care
  • Substance use treatment including withdrawal management and addictions treatment beds
  • Mental health and addictions supportive housing and services
  • Social services including vocational training and employment supports

Through Your Health: A Plan for Connected and Convenient Care and building on the Roadmap to Wellness, the province is taking action to connect individuals to integrated mental health and addictions services, where and when they need it.

Quick Facts

  • As of April 1, 2025, nine Consumption and Treatment Services sites successfully transitioned to HART Hubs, delivering expanded recovery and treatment services to ensure timely, high-quality care for vulnerable individuals while keeping communities safe. More HART Hubs are now opening across Ontario.
  • Services at the Lanark, Leeds and Grenville HART Hub Smiths Falls location will be operational as of December 8, 2025.
  • The Lanark, Leeds and Grenville HART Hub delivers services in collaboration with over 50 community organizations to deliver wraparound services for mental health, addictions, housing and social supports.
  • HART Hubs will also add close to 900 supportive housing units across the province. This is over 300 more than originally planned, helping people transition to stable, long-term housing.
  • In March 2025, the government announced an investment of almost $550 million to create a total of 28 HART Hubs across the province, nine more HART Hubs than initially planned.
  • This includes two Indigenous-led Hubs in Kenora and Sault Ste. Marie/Blind River/Sagamok, to deliver culturally relevant care in partnership with Indigenous service organizations.
  • With a focus on treatment and recovery, HART Hubs will not offer safer supply, supervised drug consumption or needle exchange programs.
  • Through the Roadmap to Wellness, Ontario is investing $3.8 billion over 10 years to close gaps in mental health and addictions care and build a world-class system. This investment is helping create new services and expand programs across the province.
  • As part of Budget 2025, Ontario is investing $303 million over the next three years to support community-led and delivered mental health programs.

Quotes

“The HART Hub in Smiths Falls is a welcome addition to health services in Lanark County. This funding represents vital partnerships and collaboration between the Province, Lanark, Leeds and Grenville Addictions and Mental Health and over 50 community organizations. The HART Hub will bring together mental and primary health services, transitional housing and social supports, all under one roof. It’ll not only give some of our most vulnerable residents a way out of crisis, but a pathway toward stability and hope.”

– John Jordan
MPP, Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston

“Congratulations to the entire team at Lanark, Leeds and Grenville Addictions and Mental Health on the opening of the HART Hub in Smiths Falls. I appreciate their hard work and leadership in opening this facility and look forward to the opening of the Brockville treatment facility. Today is a milestone for providing treatment and hope of a new path forward for individuals and their families in our community whose lives have been disrupted by addiction.”

– Steve Clark
MPP, Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes

“We are honoured to welcome clients to begin their recovery journey at our Lanark Leeds and Grenville HART Hub. The Ontario government’s HART Hub model offers our communities low-barrier access to a full continuum of mental health and addictions care that will give individuals a real opportunity for lasting recovery and, in some cases, a pathway out of homelessness or unstable housing.”

– Kim Gifford
CEO, Lanark Leeds and Grenville Addictions and Mental Health