Focus: Substance Abuse
Supports and services available through this program include:
- individualized assessment and treatment planning
- referral to in-patient substance abuse and problem gambling programs across Ontario
- personal and system advocacy
- referral to external community agencies
- family support and education
- public education and consultation
- referral to consulting Psychiatrists
- relapse Prevention and after care
- crisis intervention
- needle exchange
Focus: Mental Health
Northern Star offers two drop-in centers throughout the district, self-help groups dealing with issues like emotions, coping skills, assertiveness training and life skills.
Social recreational activities such as crafts, community kitchen, birthday celebrations, and member meetings. Trained volunteer hosts operate a drop-in center and provide peer support.
Focus: Mental Health
The family program aims to provide education and support to family members and caregivers of individuals with serious and persistent mental illness.
Focus: Problem Gambling
Supports and services available through this program include:
- individualized assessment and treatment planning
- referral to problem gambling programs across Ontario
- personal and system advocacy
- referral to external community agencies
- family support and education
- public education and consultation
- referral to consulting Psychiatrists
- relapse Prevention and after care
- crisis intervention
Focus: Mental Health, Substance Abuse
Focus: Mental Health, Substance Abuse
Supports and services available through this program include:
- individualized assessment and treatment planning
- referral to in-patient substance use and problem gambling programs across Ontario
- personal and system advocacy
- referral to external community agencies
- family support and education
- public education and consultation
- referral to consulting Psychiatrists
- relapse Prevention and after care
- crisis intervention
- needle exchange
Focus: Mental Health
Supports and services available through Case Management include:
- ongoing assessment and goal development;
- crisis intervention and outreach;
- supportive counseling and assistance with problem solving;
- assistance in accessing treatment and support in addressing symptoms and following through on treatment recommendations;
- coordination of services with natural supports and other agencies;
- assistance in meeting basic needs; and
- advocating with and on behalf of clients as necessary.
- supporting clients who have agreed to a Community Treatment Order
Focus: Mental Health
The Developmental Disabilities Services is a part of the Regional Specialized Mental Health Program of North Bay Regional Health Centre.
The clinical team works collaboratively with community-based multidisciplinary teams to achieve the Developmental Disabilities Services goals of optimizing the quality of life for adults with dual diagnosis (developmental disability and a serious mental illness), enhancing independent or interdependent community living, reducing the need for hospitalization or institutional care, and developing regional local partnerships.
The Developmental Disabilities Service provides the following services:
- comprehensive psychiatric assessment and treatment services for adults with a dual diagnosis
- monitoring medical-therapeutic outcomes to prevent re-hospitalization
- linking individuals to needed community services
- individual therapy
- skill building
- providing support and education to client's support network
- consulting with inpatient clinicians
- participating in hospital discharge
- assisting in research projects
Focus: Mental Health
Important characteristics of the program are:
- serves individuals with serious mental illness that are complex and have devastating effects on functioning
- services are delivered by a group of multidisciplinary mental health staff who work as a team to provide the majority of the treatment, rehabilitation, and support services clients need to achieve their goals.
- services are individually tailored with each individual to address the preferences and identified goals
- delivers services in community locations to enable each client to find and live in their own residence and find and maintain work in community jobs
ACT services are delivered in an ongoing rather than a time-limited framework to aid the process of recovery and ensure continuity of a caregiver.
Focus: Mental Health
Justice Support Services provides advocacy and support to individuals involved in the criminal justice system, who experience one or more of a serious and persistent mental illness, pervasive developmental delay, and pervasive addiction issue. The program is designed to assist individuals to access the appropriate services within the community as a means of reducing criminal recidivism.
Focus: Mental Health
The Regional Early Intervention program provides comprehensive services to optimize the quality of life of individuals in the community who are or may be experiencing early episode psychosis through the process of comprehensive multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment.
Staff works to provide services/education to clients and their families to assist with the process of recovery and rehabilitation. This program is offered on an outpatient basis.
Focus: Mental Health
Individuals served in this program are generally seniors over the age of 65 or younger persons who have mental health problems or illnesses. Services are also provided to people in long-term care facilities who have behavioural problems related to dementia or to mental illness.
An assessment is completed by a mental health nurse followed by a psychiatric consultation with a psychiatrist who then provides the family physician or other health care provider with diagnosis and treatment recommendations. Once the assessment and psychiatric consultation have been completed, the treatment recommendations will be followed through by the referring health care provider. Referrals to other supports will also be made. Limited follow-up for people with age-related mental illness. This is not a crisis service and individuals must be medically stable.
Focus: Mental Health
Primary health care refers to an approach to health and a spectrum of services beyond the traditional health care system.
Primary care is the element within primary health care that focuses on health care services, including health promotion, illness and injury prevention, and the diagnosis and treatment of illness and injury. The Primary Care Program strives to provide comprehensive primary health care to respond to the needs of the whole person and ensure continuity of care, acute and chronic disease management, as well as health promotion and disease prevention.
Offering primary care services within a community mental health organization is a new approach to provide accessible and client-centered care to people with mental health issues. The Nurse Practitioner with the Primary Care Program works collaboratively with mental health service providers, psychiatrists, and physicians in areas of assessment, diagnosis, and prescription of medications, treatment and health promotion to meet the health care needs of clients.
Focus: Mental Health
A variety of housing opportunities and support services to assist individuals with a history of serious and persistent mental illness to secure and maintain permanent, safe, affordable, and high standard housing.
Housing support services are designed to assist individuals to live with stability, autonomy, and dignity in the community. The Housing Support Worker will assist clients to maintain stability in the community through short-term intensive services designed to address their housing needs as well as their activities of daily living needs. Individuals will have access to adequate, safe, and affordable accommodations according to their needs and choices. The Housing Support Worker will facilitate the discharge planning process to help individuals with a mental illness who are currently homeless, at risk of becoming homeless or who are being released from a psychiatric facility and require housing.
Focus: Substance Abuse
The Rapid Access Addiction Medicine clinic (RAAM), provides an opportunity for individuals with substance use issues to access safe, non-judgmental specialized addiction medicine in a timely manner. While appointments are preferred, this low barrier model allows for drop-ins and self-referral.
This multidisciplinary team combines addiction medicine (physicians who specialize in substance use disorder) with the psycho-social supports that many individuals struggling with substances require to improve their quality of life. In addition to medical intervention, assessment, treatment referral, and case management are provided.
Once patients are stabilized, they are referred back to primary care for long-term follow-up; the clinical team offers ongoing support to family physicians through re-assessments and addiction specific consultations. In this model, addiction specialists, family doctors, and community service agents work with the individual to provide seamless and accessible care.
Focus: Mental Health
Behavioural Supports Ontario assists individuals with aged-related mental health issues.
Aiming to improving the quality of life for older adults who have responsive behaviours arising from mental health issues, substance use, dementia, delirium and other neurological disorders. The program provides specialized mental health services to inpatients and outpatients.
Focus: Mental Health
This service is accessible to individuals receiving services from the organization and anyone in the community who requires assistance.
This service includes an information referral service to individuals seeking mental health services for themselves, family members or friends. This information service is also available to family doctors, health care providers, and to other community organizations inquiring on behalf of patients or clients. This service helps people locate suitable treatment and support services in our catchment area.
Focus: Substance Abuse
Supports and services available through this program include:
- referral to external community agencies
- family support and education
- public education and consultation
Family members/significant others are accepted as primary clients.