Focus: Mental Health
Public education, assertive outreach, assessments and treatment for persons aged 14 to 35 in the early stages of psychotic illness, and their families.
Focus: Mental Health
Provides services to meet the needs of individuals with a mental health condition and/or dual diagnosis who are in conflict with the criminal justice system. Links clients with both short and long term supports; case management services; and mental health information to family and others. Provides progress reports to the court and consultation for those not accepted for diversion. Provides general support throughout the court process.
Focus: Mental Health
The mental health services program provides mental health support to individuals who are experiencing chronic mental health symptoms that are impeding day-to-day functioning. The program is open to individuals aged 16 or over who live in Peterborough, Kawartha Lakes, Northumberland, and Haliburton counties.
Services include up to six months of supportive counselling to enable individuals to develop skills to lessen the impact of psychological distress on daily functioning. Group programming is also available.
Focus: Mental Health
Mental Health Employment Support Consultants work collaboratively with employment agencies within the Muskoka-Kawartha region to help complex clients with mental health concerns find and maintain competitive employment.
Consultative supports focus on symptom management, mental health interventions and distress tolerance/coping strategies.
Focus: Mental Health
Provides supports to the Youth Justice Court for those ages 12-17 with mental health needs. The worker establishes effective linkages between the youth in conflict with the law, the Youth Justice Court and appropriate community mental health and youth justice resources.
Focus: Mental Health
The CMHA Trustee Programs are voluntary and flexible financial management programs. These programs assist clients in budgeting, paying bills, maintaining housing, advocating with creditors, decreasing debts and developing savings, while ensuring that the client’s needs are met. This decreases stress, reduces victimization, reduces hospitalization and overall improves the client’s quality of life. The goal of the trustee program is to assist clients in developing financial literacy skills to support them in moving towards financial independence.
Focus: Mental Health
Offers supports and services for transgender and gender diverse people.
One to one Peer Support services provide assistance in the following areas; reducing Isolation and/or self-isolating behaviour, developing wellness tools/strategies, assistance with accessing supportive communities, exploring gender identity, development of resources for navigating and accessing Health Care, and information and strategies to assist with transitioning.
Focus: Mental Health
Supports clients who are currently engaged within the justice system either through participation in the Community Support Court in Kawartha Lakes/Haliburton/Peterborough or those individuals who may be receiving services through the Release from Custody program.
A fundamental requirement for referral is that an identified treatment plan has been developed and housing has been identified as a primary objective to the reduction of recidivism.
Focus: Mental Health
Provides educational courses about mental health and well-being that promote recovery, hope, empowerment, possibility, and connection.
Courses are collaboratively designed, developed, and delivered with individuals who have lived experience.
Focus: Mental Health, Substance Abuse
Focus: Mental Health, Substance Abuse
A mobile mental health and addictions clinic that provides a full range of mental health and addictions services to individuals living in rural and remote areas and who face barriers to accessing existing services and supports.
The clinic operates out of two vehicles that travel throughout the rural areas in City of Kawartha Lakes, Haliburton, Peterborough and Northumberland Counties, providing:
- Counselling and therapy
- Support with addictions and substance use
- Health and mental health education
- Medication support
- Access to other supports including psychiatry
Services are flexible and responsive to the specific needs and challenges of individuals living in rural communities.
Focus: Mental Health
The Forensic Court Support Program assists individuals experiencing mental health or addiction concerns who become involved with the criminal justice system. Working in collaboration with clients, court officials and other community agencies, justice staff assist to develop diversion and community support plans for individuals to help address their mental health or addiction concerns and prevent further involvement with the justice system.
Focus: Mental Health
This program provides brief mental health support to individuals who are experiencing crisis due to mental health concerns or serious mental illness. The program is open to individuals aged 16 or over who live in Peterborough, Kawartha Lakes, Northumberland and Haliburton counties.
Services provided include brief interventions to stabilize crisis and reduce mental health concerns and connection to appropriate longer term supports in the community.
Focus: Mental Health
Provides specialized vocational assistance to individuals age 16+, living with a mental health concern, who are seeking opportunities to enter or reintegrate into the workforce. Helps participants obtain competitive employment through the development of an achievable action plan, coupled with the practice of coping skills and mental wellness.
Focus: Mental Health
Crisis stabilization / safe beds. All clients are assessed by the safe bed team prior to admission.
Individuals must be independent of self-care, and are expected to participate in activities of daily living such as preparing meals, grooming, and laundry.
The only exclusionary criterion is an individual who presents as imminent risk to themselves or others and/or has a recent and severe history of violence.