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. Face-to-face support can be provided in the community for situations that may require a more direct response.
The 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.
Focus: Mental Health
Crisis Bed admissions are brief and offer comprehensive mental health and addiction support, crisis, and safety planning, as well as referrals to ongoing services.
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.
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. 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.
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.
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.
Focus: Substance Abuse
Outpatient program for individuals seeking to withdraw from alcohol or drugs, including physician-directed tapering. It’s for those with mild to moderate withdrawal symptoms who prefer not to attend residential services.
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 offering holistic support for alcohol or drug withdrawal without residential care. The teams include outreach counsellors, a social worker, a nurse and a peer support specialist. A nurse practitioner sees each client.
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 provides a community-based group treatment option for people looking to address their substance use. Participants should already have identified a substance use goal and be working toward it. The program blends Indigenous and Western approaches to support physical, mental, social and spiritual growth and healing while on the way to achieving one’s goal.
Focus: Substance Abuse, Problem Gambling
Focus: Substance Abuse, Problem Gambling
Support, education, and consultation is available for individuals who are concerned about the substance use, gambling, video gaming, or technology use of a family member or friend. This support is offered by both the Adult Addiction Services and Gambling, Gaming, and Technology programs.