Focus: Substance Abuse
The day program helps individuals who are experiencing challenges with substance and alcohol use. This program is also suitable for individuals who have co-existing mental health concerns. Clinicians work with the patients in the program to set a substance use related goal. These goals are intended to reduce harm associated with patient's drug or alcohol use and improve their quality of life. Patients are provided with the skills and strategies that make it possible to maintain changes and set goals for future changes.
Psycho-educational groups are focused on providing education on topics relevant to supporting patients with their goal. This may include topics relating to managing emotion and distorted thinking, working through cravings and triggers, improving communication and relationships, relapse prevention, and dealing with related challenges. The processing group is intended to engage patients on a mental, emotional, and behavioral level. Through this process patients have the opportunity to develop new insights, work through difficult emotions, and cope more effectively with their unique triggers. Upon completing program, patients can expect to leave with a solid understanding of the work involved to create and maintain changes with substance use.
The program runs treatment sessions four mornings a week, for four weeks.
Focus: Substance Abuse
The elective inpatient medical withdrawal 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 an individual through the withdrawal process as safely as possible.
Close medical monitoring is provided for the duration of the admission.
Upon discharge, the individual can choose to continue to be supported through our outpatient community programming.
Focus: Mental Health
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, brief individual counselling and follow up (in very specific situations such as with language barriers or complex needs ), 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 also provides assessment and treatment to individuals who have co-existing mental health concerns, if required.
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.
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.