Focus: Mental Health, Substance Abuse
Focus: Mental Health, Substance Abuse
Services include:
- confidential after-hours mental health response services
- foster and support resiliency through mental health crisis intervention and prevention
- safely explore mental health and/or substance use concerns and seek methods of stabilization and/or resolution
- assist individuals to identify, develop, and use personal strengths and coping strategies
- facilitate seamless and timely transitions to community services for urgent response and/or ongoing counselling services
Focus: Mental Health
Outreach service through Case Management Services provides support and assistance to individuals who are living with a serious mental illness.
Individuals can access the support and assistance of case managers for daily living skills, intensive support, coordination and referral to other services, while they strive to achieve and maintain a good quality of life in their home community.
Focus: Substance Abuse
Specialized alcohol, substance use and problem gambling services are provided to individuals.
Assessments, individual counselling, psycho-educational group sessions, coordinated psychiatric consultations, community education and awareness, and external organization referrals.
Focus: Problem Gambling
Specialized alcohol, substance use and problem gambling services are provided to individuals.
Assessments, individual counselling, psycho-educational group sessions, coordinated psychiatric consultations, community education and awareness, and external organization referrals.
Focus: Mental Health
Professional clinical services are provided for mental health concerns with individuals.
Program includes mental health assessments, individual counselling, psycho-educational group sessions, coordinated psychiatric consultations, oncology support, community education and awareness, and external organization referrals for appropriate service, on-going support and/or assistance.
Focus: Mental Health
We provide:
- crisis assessment and intervention
- support to family members and friends
- referrals and service linkages to other community services
- brief therapy
- follow-up
- wellness planning
- public education
- timely and appropriate crisis intervention via telephone or in person.
Focus: Mental Health, Substance Abuse
Focus: Mental Health, Substance Abuse
The Community-Based Mental Health Stabilization Unit, (CBMHSU), provides voluntary residential short-term recovery services to people, who are experiencing mild to moderate symptoms of poor mental health.
The recovery treatment model applied at the CBMHSU consists of the following components:
- nutrition, 3 meals and 3 snacks per day
- sleep hygiene
- activation, (i.e. outdoor walks, chair yoga, arts and crafts, and music)
- life skills coaching related to activities of daily living
- individual counselling and group therapy
- Case Management service initiation for individuals who require the securing of external resources post-discharge
The length of the treatment intervention at the CBMHSU is 4 overnights, and 5 days, Monday morning through to Friday afternoon.