Focus: Mental Health
Housing support is offered to clients who have serious mental illness, have current involvement with the criminal justice system and are homeless. Housing units are accessed through the Canadian Mental Health Association Toronto branch and rent subsidies are also offered.
Clients must have a severe and persistent mental illness, be homeless and have current involvement with the criminal justice system.
Focus: Mental Health
Housing and individual supports are offered to individuals who have a severe and persistent mental illness and have utilized the hostel or shelter system due to homelessness or who are imminent risk of homelessness.
Individuals must be 16 years of age or older, have a severe and persistent mental illness and be homeless or at imminent risk of homelessness. Individuals must be assessed as needing and willing to work with a support service and have links to Etobicoke or York.
Focus: Mental Health
Transitional community based supports to individuals sixteen and older experiencing both mental health and addiction issues. The service offers a quick access to community-based supports for those individuals who meet the criteria. Individuals can expect to receive assistance in navigating the mental health and addiction system, as well as the facilitation of appropriate referrals, transitional case management, and treatment planning.
Focus: Mental Health
A multidisciplinary team of mental health professionals offering intensive support to individuals with complex mental health and physical health needs. Services include addictions, behaviour therapy, case management, nursing and psychiatry.
Focus: Mental Health
A multidisciplinary team of mental health professionals offering intensive support to individuals with complex mental health and physical health needs. Services include addictions, behaviour therapy, case management, nursing and psychiatry.
Focus: Mental Health
Crisis Outreach Services for Seniors (COSS) is an on-call mobile crisis service for older adults (65+ years) with addictions issues or mental illness. The COSS team will come in-person to meet with the client within 24-48 hours either in their home or in their local community.
The team can provide crisis counselling, short-term intensive case management, harm reduction, mental health and addictions support, health assessment and care as need by a Nurse Practitioner, and referral to primary care.
Focus: Substance Abuse
Outreach-based treatment. Service provided to clients in their homes. Harm reduction, motivational interviewing/counselling and solution focused therapy. Will assist clients with substance use issues including program gambling issues.
Focus: Substance Abuse
Provides 16 self-contained units to older adults (55 years and up) with problematic substance use as well as complex care needs such as chronic health conditions, mild dementia arising from long-term alcohol use, social isolation, and criminal justice involvement. Provides specialized geriatric addictions case-management.
Focus: Mental Health
Drop-in, monthly, peer-based support groups. Individual and telephone support offered. The focus of service is on supporting family members who have a relative with mental illness.
Focus: Mental Health
A multidisciplinary team that serves individuals experiencing serious mental health concerns combined with aging-related complexities. The service includes social work, nursing, occupational therapy, behaviour therapy, geriatrics and geriatric psychiatry.
Focus: Mental Health, Substance Abuse
Focus: Mental Health, Substance Abuse
Provides community-based support for young people living with mental illness and addictions challenges, including those transitioning between the youth and adult mental health systems.
The program serves youth aged 15-26 who live in the west end of Toronto (west of Yonge St. to Kipling Ave., south of Eglinton to the Lake) and are living with mental health and addictions issues.
Focus: Mental Health
Provides short-term case management and/or consultation services to individuals who live with mental health challenges to reduce the risk of involvement with the criminal justice system. Service is provided for up to six months.
To be eligible for service the individual must meet all three of these criteria:
- Individual is 16 years or older and has a serious mental health issue (concurrent/dual diagnosis or cognitive disability included)
- Individual can benefit from a community mental health service
- Likely to be safely supported in the community
- Has had some involvement in the justice system (current charges, past charges, or release from custody in the past year) or if not involved in the justice system may have other risk factors.
Focus: Mental Health
An intensive community-based mental health service provided by a multidisciplinary team for people with a severe and persistent mental illness, functional impairments and complex needs. The program provides psychiatric assessment and treatment, rehabilitative and support services including advocacy, life skills training and accessing housing, financial and legal services.
The service is for adults 16 years and over with severe and persistent mental illness. The individual must have high needs which may include: high use of hospital service; significant impairments in activities of daily living; co-occurring disabilities such as substance use and developmental delay; involvement in the criminal justice system; and inability to participate in other community-based services.
Focus: Mental Health
Case management services are offered to individuals living in the Home and Community Care Support Services Toronto Central Region. This recovery-based service includes assistance with finding and maintaining housing, life skills training, accessing community resources and building support networks. Staff liaises with other supports and work collaboratively with them.
Focus: Mental Health
A specialized 10-week educational group program for children aged 7-12 who have a family member with mental illness. Provides education and teaches coping skills through artwork, discussion, and games in a safe environment. The program is delivered throughout the year in various locations across Toronto and Peel. One-on-one support is also available for children. Youth support offered for ages 13-17.
Focus: Mental Health
Individual supportive counselling provided by Family Outreach Workers to support families dealing with mental health issues. Includes referrals to other community resources, education, advocacy, coping strategies, and supportive counselling.