Focus: Mental Health
The Crisis Intervention Program provides assessment and brief intervention services to individuals living with mental illness, as well as those experiencing distressing feelings, thoughts related to harm towards self or others.
Team members will meet with individuals and families to address their immediate situation and plan an effective course of action to resolve the crisis. If longer term counselling, treatment of other disorders or hospital admission seems warranted, referral to services is offered.
Focus: Mental Health
Services are provided to children, youth and adults who may be experiencing a mental health crisis, harm to self or others, suicidal thoughts, or family crisis.
Individuals can be seen in shelters, treatment facilities, in the community, or within their own home environment.
Focus: Mental Health
The Regional Eating Disorders Program is a community-based outpatient assessment and treatment centre which serves clients and their families struggling with anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and other eating and feeding disorders.
Focus: Mental Health, Substance Abuse
Focus: Mental Health, Substance Abuse
The Central Intake and Referral Coordination (CIRC) program is the entry point to mental health and addiction services in the City of Greater Sudbury, and provides a standardized referral and screening process which streamlines access to most Health Sciences North (HSN) Mental Health and Addiction programs (excluding Crisis Intervention Program).
Services include screening and referral coordination.
Focus: Mental Health
The program serves individuals who have been diagnosed with a severe mental illness such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder or other psychotic disorders; and individuals who have multiple and complex needs.
The program consists of: case management, Community Treatment Order Planning (CTO), administration of long acting medication, and rehabilitation and recovery programs.
Focus: Problem Gambling
Outpatient addictions and gambling services (OAGS) provides treatment focused on helping clients reduce or stop their gambling/gaming. Our program is based on a harm reduction model and includes education, motivation/goal setting, and skills building that are tailored to meet our client’s individual needs and strengths. Treatment can also involve family members, significant others and community agencies as needed. We also provide treatment for significant others of individuals who have problem gambling/gaming.
Focus: Substance Abuse
Outpatient Addictions and Gambling Services (OAGS) provides treatment focused on helping clients reduce or stop their substance use. Our program is based on a harm reduction model and includes education, motivation/goal setting, and skills building that are tailored to meet our client’s individual needs and strengths. Treatment can also involve family members, significant others and community agencies as needed. We also provide support for families of youth who use substances.
Focus: Substance Abuse
Outpatient Addictions and Gambling Services (OAGS) provides treatment focused on helping clients reduce or stop their substance use. Our program is based on a harm reduction model and includes education, motivation/goal setting, and skills building that are tailored to meet our client’s individual needs and strengths. Treatment can also involve family members, significant others and community agencies as needed.
We also provide treatment for significant others of individuals who use substances.
Focus: Mental Health
The Mood and Anxiety Program provides services to individuals who are experiencing symptoms of mood and/or anxiety disorders.
Specialized groups are available for Axis II diagnosis for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and Bi-polar disorder.
Individual counselling is available for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), provided diagnosis has been confirmed and clients are assessed as being ready to engage in treatment.
Focus: Mental Health
The Early Psychosis Intervention Program (EPI) provides assessments; intensive case management; medication management; family treatment and support; compensatory strategies for recovery; and maintenance programming.
Focus: Mental Health
The Assertive Community Treatment Teams are interdisciplinary teams of mental health professionals who provide client-centred, highly individualized treatment, support and rehabilitation to people suffering from schizophrenia, schizoaffective or bipolar illness.
The individuals served are adults with the highest intensity of need, due to complex, long-term, persistent symptoms.
Focus: Mental Health
We offer individual assessment and treatment, family support, referral to community organizations, and full participation in a treatment plan.
Consultation services to other health care providers is provided.
Focus: Substance Abuse
The Rapid Access Addiction Medicine Clinic (RAAM) is a medical clinic for individuals who are looking for help with their substance use. Treatment is available for individuals looking for medical management to support withdrawal, and reduction of cravings. Our prescribers will assess and develop and individualized treatment plan.
Focus: Substance Abuse
Outpatient addictions and gambling services (OAGS) provides treatment focused on helping clients reduce or stop their substance use. Our program is based on a harm reduction model and includes education, motivation/goal setting, and skills building that are tailored to meet our client’s individual needs and strengths. Treatment can also involve family members, significant others and community agencies as needed.
We also provide treatment for significant others of individuals who use substances.
Focus: Mental Health
The Ontario Structured Psychotherapy program supports individuals with mild-to-moderate depression, anxiety and anxiety-related conditions by providing publicly funded, short-term support.
These services include guided self-help resources that are supported by a coach or therapist. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and related practices are offered in either one-on-one or group sessions. These sessions can be offered in person or virtually.
Individuals identifying the following issues can be supported:
- depression and low mood
- generalized anxiety and worry
- health anxiety
- obsessive-compulsive concerns
- other anxiety and stress-related problems
- post-traumatic stress
- social anxiety and performance fears
- unexpected panic attacks and agoraphobic fears