Adult Mental Health

Adult Mental Health Services include:

• Adult Crisis Program
• In Patient Mental Health Unit
• Brief Therapy Clinic
• Recovery & Wellness Day Program
• Schizophrenia Program
• Psychogeriatric Assertive Community Treatment Team (PACTT)
• Geriatric Mental Health Outreach
• Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT)
• Community Treatment Order (CTO)

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. In addition, this service includes assessment and consultation to inpatient units and family physicians.

More Information
Call 905-895-4521 extension 2666

In Patient Mental Health Unit

Our in patient unit currently consists of 24 beds and provides short-term assessment, stabilization, and symptom reduction to individuals with mental health issues. Individual, group and family education is also provided.

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Brief Therapy Clinic

This outpatient program is designed for clients who are 18 years of age or older and 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.

Recovery & Wellness Day Program

The Recovery & Wellness Day Program is one of several mental health services offered at Southlake on an out-patient basis.  In the form of group sessions, clients are assisted to rediscover their strengths and build healthy coping skills, set goals, problem solve, stress management, 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. Individuals are encouraged to remember past successes and build on those strengths.

1. Recovery Program: The focus of this program is for clicnets who are just starting their mental health journey and require a more supportive atmosphere to grow and heal.
   
2. Wellness Program: The focus of this program is for clients who are ready to move forward on their journey to improved mental health.

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Schizophrenia Clinic

This outpatient program is designed to provide assessment and treatment planning for individuals living with schizophrenia/psychotic illness. The program includes individual, group and family education, as well as medication administration and monitoring. A physician's referral is required.

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Psychogeriatric Assertive Community Treatment Team (PACTT)

The objective of PACTT is to provide intensive services for people over the age of 60 with severe mental illness who reside in York Region. The primary goals of PACTT are to:

• lessen or eliminate the debilitating symptoms of mental illness and to minimize or prevent recurrent acute episodes of the illness
• meet client needs and enhance their quality of life
• improve functioning in geriatric social activities
• lessen the family’s burden of providing care
• decrease the number of hospital admissions, re-admissions and bed days, emergency visits and crisis service contacts

The current findings of this type of service delivery is that clients have fewer admissions to hospital, and for those who are re-hospitalized, they experience significantly shorter hospital stays. Also, clients spend more time in independent living situations, experience more positive social relationships, express greater satisfaction with life and are less symptomatic.

Potential clients can be referred to PACTT through self referral, their community psychiatrist or family doctor, hospital staff, professionals from other agencies, a family member or a friend.

PACTT delivers treatment, rehabilitation and support services in the client’s choice of environment. This outreach program is offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week and is supported by an experienced team of health care professionals consisting of nursing, occupational therapy, social work, a peer support worker and a psychiatrist.

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Geriatric Mental Health Outreach Program

Members of the Geriatric Mental Health Outreach team visit the client's place of residence and provide assessment, consultation, short term case management, education and follow-up to the elderly who suffer from a serious mental illness. Emphasis is placed on utilizing available community resources and services to ensure that the client and caregivers receive adequate care and support. The program also provides recommendations for treatment and care to Long Term Care Facilities or family physicians. A physician's referral is required.

To access the program, clients must:

• be at least 55 years of age
• suffer from a serious mental illness
• have a major behaviour problem and are at risk of harming themselves
• have difficulty with recent memory loss
• live in Southlake Regional Health Centre's service area

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Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT)

This outreach program is centered in Georgina, Ontario. It is offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week and supported by an experienced team of health care professionals consisting of nursing, occupational therapy, social work, a peer support worker and a psychiatrist.

The objective of the ACTT is to provide intensive services for people with a severe mental illness who reside in Georgina. The primary goals of ACTT are:

• lessen or eliminate the debilitating symptoms of mental illness each client experiences and to minimize or prevent recurrent acute episodes of the illness
• meet the client's basic needs and enhance their quality of life
• improve functioning in adult social activities and employment roles
• lessen the family's burden of providing care
• decrease the number of hospital admissions, re-admissions and bed days, emergency visits and crisis service contacts

The ACTT delivers treatment, rehabilitation and support services in a client's choice of environment.

The current findings of this type of service delivery is that clients have fewer admissions to hospital, and for those who are re-hospitalized, they experience significantly shorter hospital stays. Also, the findings reveal clients spend more time in independent living situations, experience more positive social relationships, express a greater satisfaction with life, and are less symptomatic.

Potential clients can be referred to ACTT by: themselves, their community psychiatrist or family doctor, hospital staff, professionals from other agencies, a family member or a friend.

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Community Treatment Order (CTO)

A community treatment order is a new, alternative form of treatment for people with serious mental illness. It is funded through the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care and is sponsored by Southlake Regional Health Centre. This form of treatment allows the client 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 well in the community and reduce hospitalization.

More Information
Call 905-895-4521 extension 2790
Fax 905-830-5987

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