Focus: Mental Health
This program provides on-site crisis and mental health assessments to individuals with complex mental health and psychosocial problems such as untreated mental illness, housing and financial issues, substance use, physical health care needs, and frequent contact with police and hospital emergency services. This is not an emergency response service.
Focus: Mental Health
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is a community-based model of care for individuals who have severe and persistent mental illness. Services are provided in the individual's home and in the community. ACT brings a team of healthcare professionals together to provide highly integrated and individualized services for individuals.
Focus: Mental Health
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is a community-based model of care for individuals who have severe and persistent mental illness. Services are provided in the individual's home and in the community. ACT brings a team of healthcare professionals together to provide highly integrated and individualized services for individuals.
Focus: Mental Health
A community treatment program that serves individuals with extended psychosis (usually defined as greater than two years). The program assists individuals to achieve independent living through individual and group sessions, and to avoid hospital admissions or presentation to the Emergency Room. Wellness Program for Extended Psychosis (W-PEP) also provides Wellness Injection services to individuals who are currently receiving services.
Focus: Mental Health
Provides assessment, consultation and treatment to seniors with serious mental illness, responsive behaviours, and/or dementia. Program may include assessment by social work, nursing, and/or psychiatry. Recommendations are provided to the referral source. Individual counselling and family support is provided in individual's home/residence, including long term care settings.
Focus: Substance Abuse
Individuals with substance use disorder admitted to withdrawal management services are provided a safe, secure environment and monitored closely for any complications. Fluids and food are provided as necessary while in observation. Observation is usually four to eight hours.
Focus: Mental Health
The Concurrent Disorder Program supports individuals with co-occurring mental illness and substance-related issues. Treatment simultaneously addresses all disorders using a structured assessment, group therapy and individual therapy.
Focus: Mental Health
An outreach program that serves individuals with a pre-existing intellectual/developmental disability and who are diagnosed with a mental health disorder, primarily exhibited by behaviours which are self-harming or threatening to those trying to care for the individual. This service provides short-term stabilization and bio-mental healthcare to individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities. A treatment plan is developed in consultation with the primary provider and community organizations
Focus: Mental Health
This program provides services to individuals living with severe, complex or treatment resistant mood and/or anxiety disorders. Individuals are assessed based on provisional diagnosis, duration of illness, disability caused by illness and risk. A bio-psychosocial approach is used to understand and treat the mood and anxiety disorders. Support is provided to help reduce symptoms of the mood and/or anxiety disorder, improve functionality and quality of life, and prevent psychiatric hospitalization and/or re-admission.
Focus: Substance Abuse
The team works with other care providers (including a physician) multidisciplinary teams to provide withdrawal management care to individuals. The team assists individuals with substance use disorder or a crisis directly related to these substances. Individuals may be accessing residential support services or may be residing in their home or the home of a significant other. Care may be provided with or without the aid of drug therapy and/or other medical interventions as well as through recovery education.
Focus: Mental Health
Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) is a safe, painless and effective therapy for a number of psychiatric conditions. The ECT team includes specially trained nurses, anesthetist, psychiatrist and respiratory therapist.
Focus: Substance Abuse
Intensive withdrawal beds for individuals with a higher acuity for medical needs.