Honestly, enter at your own risk. The workers are exceptional to a degree, they unanimously operate as if it's a lawless place. Makes sense, since they are "legally obligated" to store people's illicit and inappropriate materials. They are so tired of all the drama of people using drugs on-site that it just runs rampant with chaos. I've seen people get in bloodied fights, I saw a girl getting her face burned off with a lighter and a can of Axe, I've seen overdoses, dead bodies, people getting raped in the bathroom, prostitution, and who knows what else. I got romance scammed by a fellow homeless person while staying there, and got into some drama with his dealer who was renting guns out to people who were mugging the homeless... Aka, me, I was getting mugged, as a homeless person. I almost got date raped on the first night I was there, which was for a cannabis treatment. Let it be known, these people are rumored to sex traffick others. You can't tell whether someone is too tired to wake up, overdosing, or just enjoying their heroin, whether it was laced meth or otherwise. It's a major no. From a survival standpoint, the food is disgusting, they only serve in smaller portions, people are WILD and CRAZY there, I often saw crowds of people jamming up the front door in the middle of WINTER with BLOWTORCHES warming up the area they huddled in and smoked in. I got food poisoning 5 times, and there's never really any room to go to the bathroom. Honestly, this place is only open to serve their purpose of helping out the homeless, they never said it was legally moderated, and really, the only "Rehab" experience you need and/or get is knowing full well that that's a shitty choice you make in life, and the door is always open to go to The Mustard Seed whenever you want to man up. Oh, also, everybody steals and has a knife on them. People get stabbed constantly there. I'm only posting this to help someone down the road if they ever find this. My mental health was so poor that I honestly don't know if I was having a nightmare, or being sex trafficked for real. People try to get you hooked on their drugs just to further extort you. It's true, gang members always target their own. I now have people stalking me for life, and the problems spread all across The Drop in Centre, to Salvation Army, to Alpha House. Downtown just isn't safe with these people acting illegally, even outside of their illicit drug habits. So good luck trying to get a staff member to help you, there weren't even floor staff during the night, so you'd have to fall asleep to people having sex in the shower, and people blasting music from the bathrooms, and leaving the door open to go smoke, THEN people would rob from you while you're sleeping. Don't be one of those people who succumbs to drugs, those people have no respect for others. Don't even try the substances (Gifted water, food, cigarettes, weed, meth or heroin [aka Down], or fentanyl; you never know what's in it, and you don't want to know what happens when they try to lace you over gang disputes or attempted robbery; it could be deadly or set you up for a date rape. Stay far away from these people, they're involved with organized crime and heavy debts. They only know where the sun don't shine. You'll oftentimes have to get out of that situation yourself, even when you get barred to find another shelter, but the staff don't always intervene if you're being mugged. Just assume it's all a set-up and you should be fine, but don't stay there. Peace. read more