Mental Health & Substance Use Community Programs

The Mental Health & Substance Use community programs offer services that include a combination of functions with interprofessional teams. Youth addictions counselling and referral, elderly services counselling, early psychosis, vocational and recreation rehabilitation is also available at most community mental health and substance use programs.

Services include:

• Trauma-informed counselling and interventions
• Collaborative care planning and medication management
• Psycho-educational groups
• Care coordination with the primary health care team and outreach psychiatry
• Assessment for mental health and substance use issues
• Advocacy and referral services to outside agencies
• Life skills support and training