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Provides education and training for individuals to secure employment and to complete work contracts

• Offers assistance and guidance to learn skills required to meet job requirements for both on/off site employment opportunities
• Provides supervision and training at the various job sites until individual is able to perform job independently
• Provides transportation to/from places of employment

Supported Employment

• Provides supports to businesses that employ individuals with developmental and/or intellectual disabilities
• Provides training to the employed individual

Provides training and supports to enable individuals to secure paid employment and/or unpaid placement opportunities

• Provides instruction on developing job skills, social skills and good work habits
• Offers information about industrial practices
• Provides job coaching at places of secured employment as required
• Provides employment through various community contracts such as yardwork and snow removal
• Provides training in various printing related areas such as shredding, folding, photocopying and laminating through Good Impressions Printing, located in the building
• Tailors ongoing training and supports to meet the needs and capabilities of each individual

Operates a Day Centre designed to enhance the social, mental, and physical well-being of participants

Offers various recreational and psycho-educational groups where individuals will gain skills to:

• Reduce the harmful effects of substance use
• Develop positive coping mechanisms
• Promote positive support networks

LOCAL CMHA BRANCH SERVICES DURING COVID-19

CMHA branches are open but many are offering alternative service delivery at this time
Service delivery may be provided:

• in person
• by phone

or in the following virtual ways:

• PCVC - Personal computer video conferencing
• OTN - Ontario Telemedicine Network
• ZOOM - Video/web conferencing platform

Please note: CMHA branch offerings are subject to change in response to the ongoing developments of COVID-19. The website below will reflect the most accurate and current information.

Follow this link to determine how service delivery is being provided by choosing the appropriate CMHA location from the website's drop down list.

• Provides employment, education, social activities, housing support, advocacy, and brief case management to individuals with mental health issues in order to achieve recovery in every aspect of their living
• Provides current information about mental health, addictions and community services
• Provides referrals to other mental health resources within CMHA and Thunder Bay

Provides supports and services to enable survivors of mental health and addictions issues to integrate back into structured life and gainful employment

• Develops an individualized vocational treatment plan that connects the client to the clinical and community support required to meet his or her employment, productivity or educational goals
• Offers situational assessments and work placements in a supported work site
• Provides employment counseling, including ongoing job coaching and job maintenance
• Provides opportunities for membership/employment in the Team Werks Co-op Program
• Offers clients an opportunity to progress through a continuum of individualized services and supports

Utilizes an outreach, community-based case management approach to help clients with severe and persistent mental illness and clients with mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorder overcome problems related to problematic alcohol/drug use or dependence and stabilize their mental illness

Develops an individualized treatment plan that can include:

• Counselling
• Psychiatric assessment and follow-up care
• Pharmacotherapy
• Group therapy
• Psychoeducation
• Therapeutic recreation

• Offers an out-patient mental health program with a multidisciplinary approach to treating a variety of mental health issues
• Utilizes a Decision Guide model to assist client with goal setting, decision making and determination of needs
• Provides assessment of client's strengths, challenges and barriers to treatment to match client with appropriate services

Offers services depending on the needs of client that can include:

• Counselling services (provided by a social worker, psychological associate, registered psychotherapist or psychologist)
• Psychiatric Consultation Clinic (including Telepsychiatry)
• Psychological Assessment Services (diagnosis, psychological functioning and inform treatment plans)
• Specialized Services (including leisure life skills instructors, occupational therapy, dietitian, social workers, and First Nations spiritual care specialists)
• Workshops and groups for both treatment and psycho-education

Employment Services - support and training for job seekers and workers with disabilities

• 1-on-1 goal planning and coaching
• resume and cover letter support
• interview skills practice
• guidance on requesting accommodation and disclosing disability
• supportive job search
• participants have access to Career Management Portal

FIRST (Fostering Inclusion in Sealed Trades)
Support for persons with disabilities in order for them to become Red Seal Certified, including financial help with tuition and educational materials costs

Support to businesses

• recruitment
• ongoing support after employing a CCRW candidate, including workplace accommodations and modifications

Services offered both in-person and virtually