Adult Mental Health

Adult Mental Health Services include:

• Adult Crisis Program
• Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT)
• Brief Therapy Clinic
• Community Treatment Order (CTO)
• In-patient Mental Health Unit
• Psychiatric Liaison Team
• Psychogeriatric Assertive Community Treatment Team (PACTT)
• Recovery & Wellness Day Program
• Schizophrenia Program

Adult Crisis Program

This program provides 24-hour coverage to the Emergency Department and provides assessment, short term crisis counseling and referrals to community agencies to clients who are 18 years of age or older. In addition, this service includes assessment and consultation in inpatient units and family physicians.

For more information:
Call: 905-895-4521, ext. 2666

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Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT)

This outreach program is centered in Keswick, Ontario. It is offered 24/7 and aims to provide intensive services for people with severe mental illness in the Georgina and Newmarket areas.  These goals include:

• Lessening or eliminating the debilitating symptoms of mental illness, and to minimize or prevent recurring episodes of illness.
• Meeting the clients basic needs and enhance their quality of life.
• Improve behaviour in adult social activities and employment roles.
• Lessen the family’s burden of providing care.
• Decrease the number of hospital visits, emergency visits and crisis service contacts.

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Brief Therapy Clinic

This out-patient program is designed for clients who have been diagnosed with a major psychiatric illness. The program offers individual and group assessment and treatment through short and medium term therapy sessions. A physician’s referral is required.

For more information:
Call: 905-895-4521, ext. 2339
Fax: 905-830-5977

Community Treatment Order (CTO)

A community treatment order is a new, alternative form of treatment for people with serious mental illness. It is funded thought the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care and is sponsored by Southlake Regional Health Centre. This form of treatment allows the patient to continue living in the community while receiving support and treatment specified in a plan that the client/family and clinicians draw up together. The focus of the community treatment order is to keep the individual in the community and reduce the amount of time at the hospital. The CTO coordinator receives referrals both from within the community and from the hospital.

For more information:
Call: 905-895-4521, ext.2790
Fax: 905-830-5987

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In-Patient Mental Health Unit

Our In-patient unit provides short term assessment, stabilization and symptom reduction to individuals with mental health issues. The unit is a safe, secure setting where patients are encouraged to participate in individual and group activities. As patients progress, the program provides assistance, if necessary, for returning to the community.

For more information:
Call: 905-895-4521, ext. 2514
Or fax: 905-830-5972

Psychiatric Liaison Team

The Psychiatric Consultation Liaison Team (PCLT) consists of a registered nurse and a psychiatrist. Their mandate is to respond to internal hospital requests for psychiatric/mental health assessment on adult in-patient that are experiencing mental health issues as part of their hospitalization.  The PCLT recommends treatment approaches and/or medications designed to address the patient’s needs thereby helping them to regain their optimum level of wellness more quickly.

Attending physicians may refer in-patients to the PCLT at any time they feel they have a patient in need of psychiatric/mental health services.

For more information:
Call: 905-895-4521, ext. 6296
Fax: 905-830-5812

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Psychogeriatric Assertive Community Treatment Team (PACTT)

The objective of PACTT is to provide services for people over the age of 55 with severe mental illness who live in York Region. The primary goals of PACTT are to:

• Lessening or eliminating the debilitating symptoms of mental illness, and to minimize or prevent recurring episodes of illness.
• Meeting the clients basic needs and enhance their quality of life.
• Lessen the family’s burden of providing care.
• Decrease the number of hospital visits, emergency visits and crisis service contacts.
• Improve functioning in geriatric social activities

Potential clients can be referred to PACTT through self referral, their community psychiatrists or family doctor, hospital staff, professionals from other agencies or friends and family.

For more information:
Call: 905-895-4521, ext. 2929
Fax: 905-830-5963

Recovery and Wellness Day program

The Recovery and Wellness Day Program is one of several mental health services offered at Southlake on an out-patient basis. In group settings, clients rediscover their strengths and learn to build healthy coping skills. They learn to set goals, problem solve, manage stress and how to access community resources. Participation in group sessions enables clients to realize that people share similar problems and are able to help each other understand and find solutions to them.

The recovery program is focused on clients who are just starting treatments and require a more supportive atmosphere, whereas the wellness program is aimed at clients who are ready to move forward in their treatments.

For more information:
Call: 905-895-4521, ext. 2465
Fax: 905-830-5987

Schizophrenia Program

This out-patient program is designed to provide assessment and treatment planning for individual’s living with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder.  The program includes individual, group and family education, as well as medical administration and monitoring.  A referral from a psychiatrist with admitting privileges at Southlake Regional Health Centre is required.

For more information:
Call: 609-895-4521, ext. 2310
Fax: 905-830-5819

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