Addiction and Mental Health - Addiction Counselling

Provides counselling programs for people with substance use or gambling problems. Topics and programs may include:

• individual counselling
• group counselling
• recovery management
• education

Adult Addiction and Mental Health Services - Assertive Outreach

Provide services to individuals with significant impairments of functioning due to severe and/or persistent mental illness,often affecting their daily functioning; difficulty accepting and maintaining treatment; lack of personal support systems; and may have coexisting issues related to substance abuse and/or justice involvement. Individuals must be willing to participate in the community or be clients leagally aligned to services through such programs as Community Treatment Orders.
Services Include:

• Medication/Psychiatric Support; administer, assess, monitor prescribed medications
• Teaching/education and prevention and promotion strategies for recovery focused care
• Advocate in referral to doctor and/or psychiatrist
• Support transportation for essential appointments
• Support social, cultural, spiritual, and personal meaningful activities for quality of life improvement
• Liaise with employment, finance and housing supports
• Provide support in activities of daily living; meal planning, grocery shopping
• Supportive counselling; crisis resolution, problem solving; social skills, coping skills' promote independence

Adult Community Services, Addiction & Mental Health

Services offered: assessment, individual psychotherapy, option to attend groups in some locations. Concurrent treatment is available with an addiction counselor if appropriate. Crisis Services are available through the local emergency department or by calling 911.

Child, Youth, and Family Mental Health Therapy

Services offered: assessment, individual psychotherapy, option to attend groups in some locations. Concurrent treatment is available with an addiction counselor if appropriate. Crisis Services are available through the local emergency department or by calling 911.

Seniors Mental Health Program Community Services, Seniors Outreach Nurses

Offers services to seniors by ruling out physiological factors, and provide care planning / behavior management strategies to clients in facility and in their homes. We assess for a variety of mental health concerns including:

• psychosis
• mood related concerns
• cognitive impairment
• anxiety etc.
• act as a liaison between CCMHBI to assist with admissions and attain psychiatric medication recommendations.
• act as a liaison between community partners such as homecare, family physicians, CCC’s and other community supports to ensure clients have the appropriate supports in place.

We are typically a one-time consult, although will provide follow up in more complex situations. It is important to note that we do not provide therapy, or medication administration.