Mental Health & Addictions

Director, Health Services – Mental Health & Addictions or 204-823-0969

Services

Services are delivered by Southern Health-Santé Sud and Eden Health Care Services

Mental Health & Addictions Access

Crisis Services

Adult Counselling Services

Assessment and counselling for acute mental health related problems

Child & Adolescent

Offers assessment and treatment for school-age children with a mental health related problem which cannot be addressed elsewhere.

Intensive Case Management

Community-based and voluntary program offering one to one comprehensive support to individuals living with a serious mental illness.

• monitoring and implementation of effective and appropriate supports
• promotes and aims to achieve relative independence
• improved quality of life with focus on community integration
• supports and case management focused on a person-centred, strength-based approach
• offers recovery oriented and community-based rehabilitation

Seniors Consultation Team

Provides non-emergent assessment, consultation and time limited service to the senior population.

• work collaboratively with a range of care providers
• supports healthy aging and independence
• services provided in home and/or in health care facilities

Shared Care

Offers one-time consultation as well as short-term counselling intervention in primary care setting

• offers education
• service coordination and liaison to further enhance continuity of care
• based on informed consent, voluntary participation and assumption of client capacity
• promoting principles of hope, recovery, empowerment, self-determination and responsibility

Promotion, Housing and Supports

Fostered through the process of enhancing individual and community capacity to take personal control

• to improve mental health
• to promote principles of hope, recovery, empowerment, self-determination and responsibility
• housing and other supports may be provided to achieve optimal life quality within the community

Rapid Access to Addictions Medicine (RAAM)

Walk-in clinic for people seeking help for substance use disorders (without appointment / referral)

• provides time-limited addiction services
• assessment, treatment options
• counselling and medication
• referrals to other community services

Mobile Withdrawal Management Services (MWMS)

MWMS is a mobile withdrawal management and stabilization service that currently supports people 18 years and older, living within the Southern Health-Santé Sud region, who want to detox from a substance they are using within their own community (in their home, supportive housing, community hospital, etc.). Learn more by accessing the Fact Sheet for Providers.

Referrals can be made by a Physician, Nurse Practitioner or RAAM Clinic by using the Referral Form.

Individuals interested in MWMS services must meet the following requirements:

• be medically and psychiatrically stable;
• have no anticipated severe or complicated medical and/or withdrawal complications. This includes those who are felt to be an imminent risk of seizures and who may require a medically supported detox as determined by the assessing physician;
• have no psychiatric symptoms which are unable to be safely managed in a community setting (i.e. active psychosis);

Those who have not successfully completed detoxification in the community or ambulatory setting will be reviewed on a case by case basis.