Focus: Mental Health
As an extension of Specialized Geriatric Services in the community, the Intensive Geriatric Service Worker program provides follow-up and intensive service coordination for older adults with complex geriatric issues.
This program works with the broader healthcare system and community to support older adults who may be isolated and have limited resources. Team members work closely with the older adults’ network to promote independence and self-directed care through the coordination of appropriate services and supports.
Focus: Mental Health
Site-based, telephone and mobile crisis in Wellington County and Waterloo Region.
Focus: Mental Health
This program provides support within housing in partnership with Thresholds Homes and Support in Wellington county.
These include one and two bedroom and shared living arrangements depending on location. Tenants will be active with a community support service that assists in meeting their needs to be successful in supported independent living.
Focus: Mental Health, Substance Abuse
Focus: Mental Health, Substance Abuse
Here 24/7 is the front door to the addictions, mental health and crisis services across Waterloo-Wellington.
We will attend to the immediate needs of the person and will conduct a comprehensive assessment of the individual. Short-term needs will be explored, as well as long-term service options. The person's needs will be matched with the service options available within the addictions and mental health service continuum, and a referral will be provided to services and supports in the community.
We can schedule appointments directly with our partner agencies for most services so that the person does not need to call other providers and re-tell their story.
Focus: Mental Health
The Regional Eating Disorders Program provides specialist outpatient eating disorders assessment and treatment to individuals and families.
Adults are offered treatment through our group program with some individual sessions. The group program is a mixture of educational and therapy groups.
All participants of the eating disorder program need to be medically monitored either by their general practitioner or a nurse practitioner.
For individuals under the age of 17, an individualized treatment plan is devised which usually includes: medical monitoring, nutritional counselling and family-based treatment.
Focus: Mental Health
The 1st Step Program aims to lessen the disruption due to psychosis in the lives of the individual and his/her family as well as reduce the incidence of further psychotic episodes, medical problems, social issues and relapse.
The program offers on-site, community-based services, comprehensive assessment and treatment for the individual, in both individual and group treatment modalities.
Extensive family education and support services are also offered.
Program criteria is:
- experienced recent symptoms of a first episode of psychosis or have not received previous treatment for recent psychosis
- early psychosis is the primary issue or concern
- limited contact with the social service system
- limited experience with prescribed medications
Focus: Mental Health
Skills for Safer Living program is a combination of a twenty-week skills-based group and a peer support group for individuals with recurring thoughts and behaviours about suicide.
The Skills for Safer Living program is provided by a team of peer supporters who have extensive practice and lived experience knowledge around understanding and preventing suicide. The Skills for Safer Living Group provides group participants the opportunity to develop specific strategies and skills to identify, interrupt, and change their behaviour about suicide.
Program participants must have a minimum of one self-reported suicide attempt or experience ongoing struggles with suicide related thoughts and behaviors.
At the conclusion of the group, participants will be invited to attend a peer support group that provides participants the opportunity to practice and refresh the skills they have learned.
Focus: Mental Health
This program provides support services to individuals dealing with mental health issues and their family members.
Short and long-term support is available, assisting people with personal planning, crisis planning, referral and connection to other community resources, assistance with education and employment goals, access to information and education etc.
Focus: Mental Health, Substance Abuse
Focus: Mental Health, Substance Abuse
Group and individual peer support services for adults living with mental health and/or substance use issues.
Services are offered by trained and certified peer support workers. No intake and no waitlist to join drop-in group services. Short-term individual peer support is available to people who attend our groups. Variety of drop-in and registered group programs focused on wellbeing, recovery, and connection through shared lived experience. Program also offers entrepreneurship support and healing through the expressive arts programs.
See website for monthly schedule.