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| Mental Health/Addictions Counselling and Treatment Team
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This team provides specialized counselling and treatment services to individuals, families and groups experiencing a variety of mental health and addiction problems.
Brief Intervention Therapy
523-4988
The BIT Program is piloting the delivery of short term services for adult clients (16 ) presenting with concurrent disorders or mental health difficulties during the year 2008-2009. The purpose of the BIT is to provide services on a short term basis in order to facilitate the timely access to treatment and counselling services that meet client needs and strengths.
Concurrent Disorders
523-4988
The purpose of the Concurrent Disorders service is to provide specialized discharge planning and transitional case management to patients being discharged from the Adult Inpatient Psychiatric Units of St. Joseph’s Health Centre Site and Kirkwood Site, who have both a mental illness and addiction issue.
Counselling and Treatment Team
523-4988
The Counselling and Treatment Team (CATT) provides counselling, psycho-education, and individual and group psychotherapy services for persons 16 years of age and older who evidence symptoms of a psychiatric disorder and reside within the boundaries of the City of Greater Sudbury. CATT additionally offers supportive counselling and education for family members of clients, and consultation to other HRSRH programs.
Early Psychosis Intervention Program
523-4988
The Early Psychosis Intervention Program provides community-based out-patient assessment and treatment services to individuals 16 to 35 years old experiencing a first episode of psychosis. Services are provided within the City of Greater Sudbury with outreach through the Districts of Sudbury/Manitoulin.
Eating Disorders Program
523-4988
The Eating Disorders Program is a community-based outpatient assessment and treatment program. Services are offered to children, adolescents, and adults (along with their families) suffering from anorexia nervosa, bulimia, binge eating disorder and mixed syndromes. The program provides assessment and treatment services to clients and families of Northeast communities without these services. Assessment and treatment are provided within a multidisciplinary team context.
Outpatient Addictions and Gambling Services
523-4988
This service offers a wide range of community programs designed to provide help for individuals experiencing difficulties with substance use and/or gambling problems within the Manitoulin-Sudbury District. Children, adolescents, their families and significant others are served.
Perinatal Mental Health Program
523-4988
The perinatal period refers to the span of pregnancy, childbirth and up to 12 months after the baby is born. This program is designed to provide a supportive and caring atmosphere for mothers and families experiencing mental illness in the perinatal period to help them recover and make the most out of their lives.
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| Department of Psychiatry and Acute Inpatient Psychiatry Team
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This team provides inpatient assessment, stabilization and treatment services for people who are acutely mentally ill.
The Department of Psychiatry is located at the Kirkwood Site and has 13 psychiatrists. All of the Mental Health and Addictions Program services have a consultant psychiatrist providing consultation services. The psychiatrists have special interests in different areas including psychogeriatrics, developmental disabilities, forensic psychiatry, child psychiatry, post partum, concurrent disorders, eating disorders and early intervention for psychosis. All psychiatrists provide services for inpatient, outpatient, emergency, on-call and community clinics.
The Acute Inpatient Psychiatric Units (St. Joseph’s Health Centre and Kirkwood sites) are both Schedule 1 facilities providing assessment, stabilization and treatment. The inpatient units provide a milieu designed specifically for adult patients who, as the result of a psychiatric disorder, are acutely and significantly disabled. Admission to these facilities is on the recommendation of the psychiatrist-on-call or by his/her designate.
St. Joseph’s Health Centre Site
523-7100 ext. 1256
The Acute Inpatient Psychiatric Unit is a 24 bed, short-term, acute care unit, serving adults age 18 and over. Patients who also have serious medical complexities may be admitted to this site.
Kirkwood Site
675-5900
The Acute Inpatient Psychiatric Unit, Kirkwood Site, is a 44 bed acute care unit, serving adults aged 18 and over.
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| Psychosocial Rehabilitation Team
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This team is focused on the recovery of individuals with longer-term, persistent symptoms of mental illness.
ACTT I and ACTT II
523-4988
Both Assertive Community Treatment Teams are interdisciplinary teams of mental health professionals who provide client-centered highly individualized treatment, support and rehabilitation to people suffering from Schizophrenia, Schizo-affective or Bipolar illness. The individuals served are adults (16 years or older) with the highest intensity of need due to complex, long-term, persistent symptoms.
Positive Steps/Case Management
523-4988
Positive Steps is designed to assist individual clients to live, learn and work in the environment of their choice, and to attain a maximal level of independent functioning. The Positive Steps/Case Management Program incorporates a continuum of three inter-related services that consist of a Medication Support Clinic, Case Management Services and Rehabilitation and Recovery programs.
Medication Support Clinic:
Two RN’s provide administration of depot medication to clients and promote recovery through a variety of interventions.
Case Management:
Case Management Program functions as a fail-safe community safety network characterized by continuous monitoring, need and risk interventions, treatment and follow-up.
Rehabilitation and Recovery Program:
This service is designed to improve the functioning of individuals with psychiatric disabilities by providing a variety of individual and group interventions to develop skill, promote healthy living and educate clients and families.
Community Treatment Order Program
675-5900 ext. 8904
This program consists of a CTO Coordinator based at the Kirkwood site and a CTO Case Manager with the case management team at Cedar St. CTOs were implemented to facilitate community services for clients with a serious mental illness which are less restrictive than being in a hospital setting.
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| Mental Health and Addictions Crisis Services Team
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This team provides brief intervention services to people with mental health and addictions crises.
Crisis Intervention Program
675-4760
The Crisis Intervention Program is located at the St. Joseph’s Health Centre site and provides 24/7 assessment and brief intervention services to individuals living with mental illness as well as those experiencing distressing feelings, thoughts or relationship problems.
Children’s and Adult’s Mobile Crisis Response
675-4760
The Crisis Intervention Program’s mobile component assists individuals from within the City of Greater Sudbury with a serious mental illness in acute distress or situational crisis, at an alternate safe location that best meets the client’s needs rather than presenting to the Crisis Intervention Program or Emergency Department. This program runs from 1000 hours to 2200 hours Monday to Friday except statutory holidays.
Mental Health Primary Care Clinic
675-4760
Located in the Crisis Intervention Program, at St. Joseph’s Health Centre site, the Mental Health Primary Care Clinic provides assessment, medical and mental health care for individuals 18 and over living in the Sudbury/Manitoulin District who are waiting to be picked up on a permanent basis by a family doctor. The goal is to improve access to primary care for clients with both medical and mental health concerns.
Manitoulin Crisis Response Program
705-368-0756
The program assesses a crisis situation, provides brief intervention and counselling to help with the immediate situation, plans next steps required to resolve the crisis situation and makes referrals and recommendations to other service providers (e.g. hospital, counsellor, First Nations Health Centre, etc).
Withdrawal Management Services
671-7167
The service offers detoxification beds for males and females 16 years of age and older, who are under the influence of/or who are in withdrawal from alcohol/drugs. The service is located at 336 Pine Street.
Safe Bed Program
671-7167
This program provides a short stay (7 to 10 days) residential program for individuals in crisis. Priority will be given to individuals who are at risk of coming into conflict with the law (non-violent offenders only) and those who would benefit from intensive crisis case management. The service is located at 336 Pine Street.
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