Focus: Mental Health
Provides support to individuals in Toronto who are experiencing homelessness, and are living with mental health issues
Supports include:
- help to obtain adequate housing
- support with making social and community connections that will assist in recovery
- supportive counseling
- physical assessment
- medication management as needed
Focus: Mental Health
Provides recovery-oriented support to people who care about someone experiencing a mental health issue. Services include: supportive counselling, variety of group programming for families, and hospital based family navigation (within St. Joseph’s Health Centre). Also provides specialized services for families supporting a loved one experiencing a first episode of psychosis and families supporting a loved one with a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (DBT-informed family support).
Focus: Mental Health, Substance Abuse
Focus: Mental Health, Substance Abuse
Case management services for individuals with concurrent mental health and addiction challenges.
Focus: Mental Health
A Recovery College (RC) is an innovative learning Centre where individuals gain knowledge and develop new skills and connections that promote their recovery and well-being. RCs provide education about mental illnesses, wellness and ultimately discovering or rediscovering passions and life meaning. It is a place where lived experience is blended with the expertise of mental health practitioners to help participants develop meaningful goals for recovery. Recovery Colleges are free to access. Group courses are on done virtually.
Focus: Substance Abuse
The Addiction Program is a non-crisis, community-based service that supports individuals with mental health and addictions.
Generic Stream: Offers addiction-specific services to individuals living with mental health and substance use who want support with their substance use. This stream offers addictions support which can include:
- access to addiction specific groups
- access to free nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) through the STOP program
- harm reduction supplies and support
Focus: Substance Abuse
The Addiction Program is a non-crisis, community-based service that supports individuals with mental health and addictions.
Specialized Justice Stream: Offers addiction-specific services to individuals living with mental health and substance use who are also involved in the justice system. The specialized justice stream recognizes the unique barriers that individuals who are justice involved face in accessing support for their mental health and addiction needs. This stream offers specialized addictions support which can include:
- short-term addictions case management
- access to addiction specific groups
- access to individualized structured therapy
- access to free nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) through the STOP program
- harm reduction supplies and support
Focus: Mental Health
Employment Services provides comprehensive employment assistance to people with mental illness through programs funded by Human Resources Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) and the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP).
Service includes:
- entry-level competitive employment opportunities to assist people to return to the workforce
- employment preparation including support in job search
- employment placement focusing on developing relationships with employers to create and develop access to opportunities in the labour market
- coaching focusing on providing work-site support to individuals
Focus: Mental Health
Provides assistance to people who are on Community Treatment Orders to access case management services. The program works closely with the client, the Community Treatment Order Coordinators, the client's treatment team and other supports to develop a support plan for the client while in the community. Assistance is provided around employment, housing, mental health, physical health and other community living issues.
Focus: Mental Health
An early intervention program that provides services to young persons in the early stages of psychosis. The program provides community-based, recovery-focused interdisciplinary clinical services. The program services include the provision and coordination of treatment, education, case management, support and referrals.
Focus: Mental Health
In consultation with the court, this program diverts people with serious mental illness from the court system to mental health and community support services. The program also provides information and support to family and loved ones of mentally ill persons in conflict with the legal system. Clients are served through the Ontario Court of Justice: Old City Hall (Toronto) and Metro East (Scarborough) Courts.
Focus: Mental Health
Provide the treatment, rehabilitation, and support services that assist people with severe mental illness in their recovery and their desire to live in the community. The teams are multidisciplinary each having a social worker, nurses, a vocational specialist, an occupational therapist, a psychiatrist, a peer support specialist, and an addictions specialist.
Focus: Mental Health
Intensive case management services for adults with serious mental illness who require support to live and work in the community. Case managers assist people to meet their basic needs (food, shelter, finances), develop skills, and access community resources.
Focus: Mental Health
Provides supportive housing and intensive case management services for individuals with serious mental illness and recent or current involvement with the criminal justice system.
Focus: Mental Health
Provides permanent and affordable housing to individuals living with mental illness, enabling them to live independently and improve the quality of their lives. Support is provided to help individuals maintain their housing, and access the community resources which will assist them in their recovery process.
Eligibility criteria:
- Individuals who are 16 years of age and older and are residents of Toronto
- Individuals who have been diagnosed with a serious mental illness
- Individuals who are homeless or at immediate risk of being homeless and are able to live independently