Focus: Mental Health
Provides care to individuals who have experienced sexual violence. The Sexual Assault Response Team, is available twenty-four hours a day through the Emergency Department.
The team provides:
- emergency and follow-up medical care for injuries and testing for sexually transmitted infections
- collection of information (forensic evidence) that may be necessary for use in a criminal investigation, if the client wishes
- crisis emotional support; longer term follow-up counselling
- arrangements to talk to the police, if the client wishes
- a social worker provides counselling for individuals who have been sexually assaulted recently and in the past
Focus: Mental Health
The short-stay unit is for children and youth (up to the age of 18 years) who have mental health conditions that significantly impair their ability to function or place their safety at significant risk. The healthcare team will provide specialized clinical assessment and initiate treatment planning in a safe environment.
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
A community mental health program which provides assessment, treatment and rehabilitation for people with schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders.
Focus: Mental Health
This outreach program offers mental health assessment, consultation and education services, with limited capacity to provide treatment and case management, for people 65 years and older.
This program is for individuals 65 and older who have developed a mental health condition later in life, individuals living in their own home or a long-term care facility, and their caregivers. Team members travel to client/satellite sites in Lindsay, Haliburton, Cobourg, and Campbellford.
Focus: Mental Health
Day treatment program for children/adolescents and adults who are struggling with eating disorders such as anorexia or bulimia.
Focus: Mental Health
An outpatient program offering treatment for children/adolescents (0 – under 18 years) and their families where significant mental health difficulties are a primary concern. The primary focus is providing service when a youth’s day-to-day functioning is significantly impaired due to moderate or severe mental health illnesses including anxiety, depression, obsessive compulsive disorders, trauma, eating disorders, self-harming behaviours, attention-deficit disorders and suicidality.
The Family and Youth Clinic offers family and individual treatment, group therapy, psychiatric consultation, urgent care, a day treatment classroom, and eating disorder treatment.
The clinic also provides urgent short–term mental health follow-up to kids and families following a visit to the Crisis Unit. Parents and youth can typically expect a phone call from the Urgent Care Team within three business days of the Crisis Unit visit. Referrals from a pediatrician or a GP/NP are also accepted for youth who are experiencing urgent safety issues and/or sudden changes in functioning or mental status.
Focus: Mental Health
Outpatient treatment for those coping with a mental illness and their families. Care is based on concern for the overall psychological well-being of patients and respect for their individual needs.
Psychiatric consultation may be available.
Focus: Mental Health
Community Treatment Order (CTO) is an order to provide a person who suffers from a serious mental disorder with a comprehensive plan of community-based treatment or care with supervision that is less restrictive than being detained in a psychiatric facility. The program assists individuals follow-up in the community as an alternative to hospitalization.
Focus: Mental Health
Provides care to individuals who are living with intimate partner violence. A Domestic Violence Response Team is available twenty-four hours a day through the Emergency Department.
The team provides:
- emergency and follow-up medical care for injuries
- collection of information (evidence) that could be used in a criminal investigation, if client wishes
- crisis emotional support
- safety planning
- arrangements for client to talk to the police, if client wishes
Focus: Mental Health
Provides confidential help for women who have experienced recent sexual assault or domestic violence or who were abused as children and who feel that their past abuse is affecting them as adults.
Focus: Mental Health
Provides multi-disciplinary outpatient services to children/adolescents and adults who are struggling with eating disorders such as anorexia or bulimia.
Focus: Mental Health
The inpatient program offers mental health intervention, assessment, stabilization, short-term treatment and discharge planning for people with serious mental illness.
Focus: Mental Health
For individuals experiencing psychiatric crisis requiring immediate attention. Three extended-care observation beds available.