A new addiction treatment facility scheduled to open on the Avalon Peninsula later this year.

The Vida Nova Recovery Centre, located on Southwest Pond, Salmonier Line, will open in June of this year.

Director Mark Lane says it will be located on the former Lavrock Centre site.

He says he had an attachment to the location going back decades, and after it closed, he started talking with the Kirby family about what could be done with it.

Lane says because of lived experience with addiction in both families they thought they could help compliment programs that exist in the system in Corner Brook and Harbour Grace.

He says they are saving a “beautiful facility” and picking away at the “exhaustive” list of people seeking help with their addictions at the same time.

Lane says unlike other private centres across the nation, they are going to track and publish their outcomes to better understand the efficacy of the program.

He says they want to provide a continuum of care to understand duration of sobriety, how long it takes to get back to work, and how long it takes to reunite people with their families.