Focus: Mental Health
This program is designed to assist individuals who experience severe and persistent mental illness to achieve their highest level of functioning in the community.
Focus: Substance Abuse
This program looks at strategies for harm reduction and/or abstinence-based models for dealing with problematic substance use.
The program provides assessments and counsels individuals who may have concerns around their use of alcohol and/or other drugs. Various groups may be offered to those participating in this program.
Focus: Mental Health
Some individuals may receive case management services and support through a community treatment order (CTO).
A CTO is a treatment and service plan which is issued by a physician in consultation and coordination with the consumer and service providers. Psychiatric case managers offer the specific services identified in the CTO to the consumer.
Focus: Substance Abuse
The Addiction Supportive Housing Program is based on the "Housing First" model which provides supportive housing to people without requirements for engagement in addiction treatment or abstinence.
The goal of the program is to increase the health and social outcomes of people with problematic substance use issues. The main objectives of the program are to reduce frequency of re-admissions to addiction programs, reduce contact with the criminal justice system, increase successful tenancy, and reduce emergency department visits.
Primary eligibility requirements for the ASH Program include:
- current problematic substance use and history of multiple entries in treatment continuum
- unable to obtain or maintain housing without support
- homeless or at risk of being homeless or marginally housed
- willingness to identify harm reduction or abstinence substance use goals
- capability and willingness to constructively participate in the ASH program.
Successful applicants of the ASH program will receive a rent subsidy and an intensive case manager. Rent supplements are geared to a person's income as well as market rate for apartments.
Focus: Mental Health
Provides a work ordered day that includes a maintenance, clerical, and kitchen unit which assists in the attainment of skills for daily living. Provides employment supports and services. Provides educational supports and services. Hosts a social recreational program.
Focus: Mental Health
This program offers support to adults and youth with mental illness/ addictions/ intellectual disabilities who are in conflict with the law.
Court Diversion: diverts individuals from the criminal justice system (minor criminal offences only) into the mental health system where they can get support and treatment designed to address their needs and minimize further involvement with the criminal justice system.
Court Support: may include facilitation of legal aid/ retaining legal counsel, linkages to support services, housing or income support, education and support for client and/or support persons regarding legal processes.
Case Management: The core function of the case manager is referrals to mental health services and other required supports and to coordinate a continuum of services based on client choice and need. The case manager may also monitor and encourage the clients` compliance with treatment measures.
Model of service is recovery orientated and psychosocial rehabilitation.
Focus: Mental Health, Substance Abuse
Focus: Mental Health, Substance Abuse
This family support initiative offers individual, educational and support group sessions throughout the year and is open to any family member to attend.
Focus: Mental Health
A toll free and local number, as well as walk in services for people to contact with respect to addictions and mental health including: information on services available throughout the district; available educational groups as well as therapeutic groups and limited registration in respect to those groups; referrals to providers and follow-up with providers concerning the status of any referral or request; screening for risk and for addictions/mental health issues.
Focus: Mental Health
The Dual Diagnosis Program provides the following services to adults with developmental disabilities and complex mental health needs:
- comprehensive psychiatric assessment and treatment
- monitoring medical/ therapeutic outcomes to prevent re-hospitalization
- linking clients to needed community services
- providing individual therapy and skill teaching to clients when community services are not available
- providing support and education to client's support network
- consulting with inpatient clinicians at admission or readmission
- participating in hospital discharge
Focus: Mental Health
The Walk-In Counselling Service is a brief counselling service that provides immediate access for children, youth, adults, couples and families.
Each session can last an hour to an hour and a half. On Monday, individuals complete the intake with our Access workers, have their appointment on Tuesday with counsellors from Sault Area Hospital, John Howard Society, Algoma Family Services.