Focus: Substance Abuse
The Day Program helps individuals who are struggling with substance use, by reducing overall harm and improving quality of life through education, self-awareness and counselling. This program also provides treatment for individuals who have co-existing mental health concerns. This treatment program generally runs ½ days.
This program offers in-person care in accordance with COVID related restrictions. This program helps the individual to understand the effects of substance use on their life and relationship and works with the individual to develop the coping skills needed to reach identified goals.
Focus: Substance Abuse
The elective inpatient Medical Withdrawal Management service has a multi-disciplinary team of addiction counsellors, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners and psychiatrists. The team provides a comprehensive medical assessment to determine the appropriateness for admission and to develop a care plan that will guide one through the withdrawal process as safely as possible. Close medical monitoring will be provided for the duration of admission. Once discharged, the individual can choose to continue to be supported through our outpatient community programming.
Focus: Mental Health, Substance Abuse
Focus: Mental Health, Substance Abuse
Day Treatment Program is for individuals with serious and persistent mental illness who have difficulties with day to day function. The program is primarily with those who have had symptoms of psychosis such as schizophrenia.
The program is based on the Recovery Model and incorporates a biopsychosocial framework. The focus of the program is to help individuals improve their everyday life, learn to live well with their illness and to facilitate linkages to community resources.
Focus: Mental Health
Provides service to children and adolescents up to their 19th birthday, as well as their family members and/or significant others. The program provides individual and family assessment, psychiatric consultation and medication management.
Focus: Mental Health
Outpatient psychiatric consultation, assessment and short-term treatment will be provided to individuals from the age of 18 through to the psycho-geriatric population. Services offered include general psychiatry, medication clinics, psychotic disorders, and mood and anxiety disorders.
Counselling or psychotherapy resources will be primarily group-based and time limited (duration on average ranges from 4-8 sessions, or 12 weeks, depending on the modality). For all services, a treatment plan will be developed which may include: psychiatric treatment, treatment with our medication clinic, short-term individual counselling and follow up (for limited mental health concerns only; based on individual assessment), group counselling (skills-based and supportive), mental health education, consultation with family physician, and recommendations and/or referral to a community organization.
Focus: Substance Abuse
Helps individuals who are struggling with substance use, by reducing overall harm and improving one's quality of life through education, self-awareness and counselling. This program provides care to individuals who have co-existing mental health concerns.
Community programs are a combination of both individual and group care. Psychoeducation and therapeutic groups are provided to support and meet the unique needs of all individuals. This program works to meet patients where they are at in an individualized manner and ranges across the full spectrum of possible goal choices.
Focus: Mental Health
Serves children and adolescents up to their 19th birthday whose mental health needs cannot be met on an outpatient basis. The six inpatient beds are used for acutely ill children and adolescents who need a 24-hour protective, therapeutic environment and close professional assessment and stabilization.
Criteria for admission include:
- high-risk of harm to self or others
- acute psychiatric states, including psychosis or acute stress response syndromes requiring assessment and treatment in a safe, supervised setting.
Focus: Mental Health
The 10-bed Acute Assessment Treatment Unit provides short-term, hospitalization for adults coping with an acute mental health and/or addictions disorder. Serves adults 19 years of age and older whose mental health needs cannot be met on an outpatient basis.
Criteria for admission include: high-risk of harm to self or others; acute psychiatric states including psychosis or acute stress response syndromes requiring assessment and treatment in a safe, supervised setting.
Focus: Mental Health
Provides short-term hospitalization for adults with acute mental health and/or addiction disorders. Serves adults 19 years of age and older whose mental health needs cannot be met on an outpatient basis. The 48 general care inpatient beds are used for acutely ill adults who need a 24-hour protective, therapeutic environment and professional assessment and stabilization.
Focus: Mental Health
This program helps inpatients transition back to home, school and the community.
Program provides: medication assessment, diagnostic clarification, crisis intervention and stabilization of the individual by an interdisciplinary team consisting of a psychiatrist, social worker, nurse, child & youth worker, three teachers, educational assistant and other disciplines as required. Patients attending the program will participate in the classroom to promote academic achievement while receiving therapy.