Searching for Community Mental Health Centres

Provides services and supports to assist individuals to achieve and maintain a quality life

• Assists individual in developing a realistic plan to acquire the skills and supports to enable them to live independently
• Determines areas of need and develops the support plan with a focus on each individual
• Provides referrals to community resources and supports
• Provides the supports in a community setting or within individual's home environment
• Focuses on wellness and recovery

Supports can include assistance in the following areas:

• Daily living skills, basic needs and life and social skills
• Employment
• Navigating the mental health system
• Accessing medical and psychiatric services
• Medication and symptom management
• Crisis prevention, intervention and management

Offers case management services and housing for individuals who are struggling with an addiction and are homeless or at risk of being homeless

Provides the following services:

• Assistance in accessing mental health and/or addiction services
• Intervention strategies that include harm reduction approach and abstinence based model in efforts to assist in addressing substance use
• Help to integrate into the community advocating with informal and formal community resources
• Referrals to community agencies, where appropriate
• Assistance in accessing income support such as Ontario Works and Ontario Disability Support Program
• Housing rent supplement
• Assistance in obtaining and maintaining housing in the community

• Provides case management services to adults living with a mental illness and a developmental delay
• Promotes recovery and independence while providing appropriate community based support

Provides the following services:

• Assistance in accessing mental health and/or psychiatric services
• Help to integrate into the community, advocating with informal and formal community resources
• Referrals to community agencies, where appropriate
• Assistance in accessing income support such as Ontario Works and Ontario Disability Support Program
• Housing rent supplement
• Assistance in obtaining and maintaining housing in the community

• Provides short-term, immediate support to individuals with mental health and/or addiction issues
• Offers support up to 6 months, but will refer individuals to longer-term support services if needed

Supports services can include:

• Advocacy
• Assistance in obtaining housing
• Assistance with community involvement/participation
• Help with applying for Ontario Works or ODSP
• Education around diagnosis, symptom management
• Referrals to community agencies when appropriate
• Short-term case management

• Delivers sensitive, timely and portable services to individuals who are struggling with a serious mental illness or concurrent disorder
• Provides a psychosocial model of care to facilitate full and active participation in the recovery process and promote independence
• Designs services to maximize an individual's functioning in the community
• Offers case management support services

Provides the following services:

• Assistance in accessing mental health and/or psychiatric services
• Help to integrate into the community advocating with informal and formal community resources
• Referrals to community agencies, where appropriate
• Assistance in accessing income support such as Ontario Works and Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP)
• Housing rent supplement
• Assistance in obtaining and maintaining housing in the community

• 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

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

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

• Provides case management and community-based support services for individuals experiencing psychiatric symptoms
• Advocates for the improvement of services delivered to individuals with psychiatric issues

Can also provide:

• Advocacy and referrals
• Assessment and monitoring
• Assistance to access housing, education, employment and health services
• Crisis intervention
• Life skills training
• Medication management and monitoring
• Rehabilitation
• Service coordination
• Supportive counselling

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

Provides services to individuals and families with mental health and addictions issues

Offers the following programs:

• Case Management Services
• Crisis Intervention
• Mental Health Counselling
• Substance Abuse and Problem Gambling Services

Also offers educational seminars and workshops on:

• Assertiveness Training
• Gambling Prevention and Awareness
• Mental Illnesses
• Stress Management Training
• Substance Abuse Education

Provides case management services to individuals and families with mental health and addictions issues

Case Management Services include the following:

• Client directed goal planning
• Counselling
• Crisis intervention and support
• Client advocacy and service coordination
• Family support and education
• Individual assessment
• Medication monitoring
• Skills development

Provides a broad spectrum of mental health and addiction services

Services offered include but not limited to:

• Provides drug and alcohol assessments
• Offers case management and forensic case management
• Provides mental health and addictions counselling, both long-term and crisis counselling
• Offers problem gambling counselling
• Provides community outreach and education

Share for Hope Program

• Provides weekly visits to Out of The Cold Shelter by community volunteers (survivors)
• Volunteers speak and offer encouragement about topics such as addictions, homelessness, family violence and grief

Also offers a satellite office in Pickle Lake two days per month

Provides inpatient and outpatient psychiatric care and services under the Mental Health Act

Inpatient Unit

Short-term acute care patient services include:

• Assessment
• Stabilization
• Diagnosis
• Treatment
• Education and discharge planning

Outpatient Services

• Consultations
• Education and outreach

• Offers holistic practical services for individuals with mental health/addictions issues accessing the Morningstar Centre or Emergency Department to aid in their healing path
• Focuses on improving the overall health of individuals and reducing the number of repeat visits to the emergency department

Services provided include but are not limited to:

• Accompaniment to medical appointments
• Assisting clients to obtain identification (ID)
• Assistance with updating Ontario Hospitalization (OHIP) cards
• Completion of housing applications

Provides long term mental health services and supports to adults

• Offers case management services including individual assessment and treatment planning
• Provides supportive mental health counselling for various issues including depression, anxiety, panic and phobias, stress and trauma, suicide ideation, eating disorders, grief and loss, life transitions, behaviour problems, relationship problems and mental health conditions
• Offers accompaniment to community activities and appointments

General Counselling

• Provides individual mental health counselling
• Offers bereavement counselling
• Offers services to male survivors of sexual abuse

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 mental health services and support

• Offers case management services including individual assessment and treatment planning
• Provides supportive mental health counselling to community at large
• Offers mental health support to all programs of the Family Health Team
• Provides referrals to local and out of town community service providers
• Provides individual and public education and information sessions

Also provides:

• Advocacy on various committees and boards for increased mental health programs
• Individual bereavement and grief counselling

Provides support and services to assist individuals who are struggling with mental health issues and/or problematic alcohol, substance use and gambling issues

Offers the following services to clients:

• Mental health assessments
• Individual counselling including grief counselling
• Psycho-educational group sessions
• Coordinated psychiatric consultations
• Community education and awareness
• External agency referrals
• On-going support and/or assistance

Case Management Services

• Provides support and assistance to individuals who are living with a mental illness

Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN)

• Provides access to specialized medical care using videoconferencing and other tele-diagnostic equipment
• Allows specialists to remotely examine and prescribe treatments to patients in their home communities
• Reduces the need to travel to receive care

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