Focus: Mental Health
The Crisis Intervention and Community Response program offers 24-hour telephone support to assist individuals, community organizations, and emergency services – to work through the resolution of identified issues and challenges. The Crisis Intervention and Community Response program can help to promote stabilization pre and post-crisis, explore and develop coping strategies, and provide support and recommendations to internal and external ongoing mental health and addiction resources. Service navigation, and provide information about resources available in the community are also available.
Focus: Mental Health
- Short-term non-medical residential Crisis Beds are available for those who may want or need additional support, monitoring and assistance.
- In-house we offer mental health support, assessment, referral and connections to ongoing supports, stabilization and Crisis planning, and assistance with any other goals identified by the individual.
- Bed admission can be offered through Mobile Assessment.
Focus: Mental Health
We provide intensive case management support geared to meet the unique needs of all of our participants and clients. Individuals work with a case manager to discover their strengths, determine areas of need and develop support plans which may include skill development, planning daily and weekly activities, accessing medical services, grocery shopping, and dealing with income and housing issues.
Focus: Mental Health
The program provides support through psychoeducation, support and system navigation to family caregivers, significant others and friends of individuals with serious and persistent mental illness.
Free psychoeducational sessions and family-focused support groups are available. Support can be offered virtually and by phone for family caregivers.
Counselling is not available in this service.
Focus: Substance Abuse
The Umbrellas program provides a community-based counselling and support for women who are pregnant, or mothers of children 6 years of age and under who are concerned about their own, or someone else’s substance use. We recognize that women may use drugs or alcohol to cope with difficult life situations. Services are based on harm reduction principles and other best practice research. Services include individual and group counselling and fast-track admission to designated residential treatment facilities.
Focus: Substance Abuse
The Opioid Treatment Program (OTP) provides one-on-one counselling support to individuals who are concerned about their use of opioid drug. This includes individuals who are prescribed Methadone or Suboxone. OTP also offers counselling support to individuals who are pregnant or parenting children under the age of 6 years old and struggling with substance use of any kind. OTP offers individual counselling, referrals to other services and harm reduction supplies. OTP serves individuals in Barrie, Orillia, Collingwood, Wasaga Beach, Midland, and surrounding areas.
Focus: Substance Abuse
Community addiction treatment is available to individuals who are concerned about their own or someone else’s substance use.
Addiction services are client-centred, acknowledging that people have the right to make their own choices while being treated.
The focus of the counselling sessions may include exploring family history, history of substance use, triggers, coping skills, strategies and other topics identified by the client. A specific treatment plan will be developed with the counsellor.
Focus: Substance Abuse
Community addiction treatment is available to individuals living in Simcoe County using a harm reduction, client-centred approach, support is offered regarding moderation, abstinence, alternative coping, family dynamics, peer interactions, and connecting to community resources.
The focus of counselling sessions may include exploring family history, history of substance use, triggers, coping skills, strategies and other topics identified by the client. Our approaches are rooted in evidence-based practices. Counsellors may use approaches such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Motivational Interviewing (MI) and others.
Goals are defined by you and may include abstinence, moderation, safer use or other harm reduction goals.
Focus: Problem Gambling
This service provides assessments along with individual outpatient counselling. Various models are used, including cognitive-behavioural approach, socio-cognitive approach, multidimensional approach, brief solution-focused, harm reduction, and abstinence. Family members/significant others are accepted as primary clients.
Focus: Substance Abuse
Individuals referred to this program are for those who have intent to make a planned withdrawal from the substance of their choice. This is a client-centred program, clients choose to withdraw in their own home rather than attend an inpatient withdrawal management service.
Focus: Mental Health
The Community Education Program offers workshops to raise awareness about mental health, substance use, trauma-informed care, and harm reduction. It also includes specialized sessions for youth, seniors, and workplace settings.
Focus: Substance Abuse
The Mobile Withdrawal Management Service is a collaborative service offered by Mamaway Wiidokdaadwin Indigenous Primary Care Team, CMHA Simcoe County and CMHA Muskoka Parry Sound - B’saanibamaadsiwin.
Individuals are assigned to one organization but may receive support from other participating organizations. The teams include outreach counsellors, a social worker, a nurse and a peer support specialist. A nurse practitioner sees each client.
Clients receive two points of contact from their care team a day either by in-person appointments or virtually. Our team works with clients in a trauma-informed, harm reduction based approach offering a balance of Indigenous and Western approaches to help clients work toward their goals.
Intake assessment process will usually start within 1 week from contact.
Focus: Substance Abuse
Brief service is provided within a harm reduction framework. Individuals completing this program remain eligible for additional addictions support including longer-term individual counselling and group therapy.
Brief services may be appropriate for the following individuals:
- mandated by courts or legal system, employers, Children's Aid Society (CAS), or other organizations
- individuals seeking aftercare services
- family and friends
- specific goal oriented addiction support
Focus: Substance Abuse
The Addictions Support and Education Circle is a 4-week virtual program for individuals who would like support with substance use goals. This program will provide skills-based education and opportunities to connect with other individuals. This program harmonizes Indigenous and Western approaches to support growth and healing.
Focus: Substance Abuse, Problem Gambling
Focus: Substance Abuse, Problem Gambling
Counselling for individuals who are concerned about someone else's substance use, gambling, video gaming or use of technology.