Searching for Community Mental Health Centres

• Provides crisis counselling via a 24/7 toll-free telephone service, or by text, live chat, or Facebook messenger
• Offered to anyone experiencing mental health challenges
• Services include confidential crisis services, connection to ongoing mental health and addictions support services and access to clinical and mental health counselling

Services can be provided in the following areas:

• Addictions
• Domestic violence
• Suicidality
• Self-harm behaviours
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Grief/bereavement

Provides supports and services to enable survivors of mental health and addictions issues to integrate back into structured life and gainful employment

• Develops an individualized vocational treatment plan that connects the client to the clinical and community support required to meet his or her employment, productivity or educational goals
• Offers situational assessments and work placements in a supported work site
• Provides employment counseling, including ongoing job coaching and job maintenance
• Provides opportunities for membership/employment in the Team Werks Co-op Program
• Offers clients an opportunity to progress through a continuum of individualized services and supports

Utilizes an outreach, community-based case management approach to help clients with a severe mental illness and co-occuring substance use disorder overcome problems related to alcohol/drug abuse or dependence and stabilize their mental illness

Develops an individualized treatment plan that can include:

• Counselling
• Psychiatric assessment and follow-up care
• Pharmacotherapy
• Group therapy
• Psychoeducation
• Therapeutic recreation

Helps Aboriginal children and families who are residing in the Thunder Bay District better access Dilico's health, mental health, addictions, and child welfare services through a city location

Health services that can be accessed at this site include:

• Adult Mental Health Worker
• Concurrent Disorder Case Manager
• Diabetes program
• Health Services Manager
• Intake and Aftercare workers
• Primary care
• Transitional aged service workers
• Walk-in medical clinic
• Youth Outreach Workers
• Youth in transition worker

Offers an outpatient program that provides services to clients with an eating disorder (anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa or binge eating) who are medically stable

Treatment can include:

• Nutritional counselling
• Individual therapy
• Family therapy
• Education

Services are offered on site and via remote appointments

Provides a wide range of programs and services designed to assist individuals, their family and friends


Gambling Education and Prevention

Offers education and training sessions for the general public, schools, families and allied professionals to raise awareness through:

• Prevention resources
• Community presentations
• High risk education groups
• Problem gambling screening

Assessments

• Evaluates personal strengths and areas of difficulty
• Evaluates severity of problematic behaviour
• Explores personal goals
• Generates recommendations and referrals

Individual Counselling (Trauma informed)

• Allows people to work towards negotiated goals and can address a variety of issues related to problem gambling
• Offers a specialized focus including stress management, spirituality, grief and loss or coping with trauma
• Provide discharge planning and referrals as needed

Residential Treatment Program

Provides an extended stay in a safe environment that:

• Provides opportunity to focus on developing healthier lifestyle habits
• Provides opportunity to join with other people who share similar experiences and challenges
• Examines values, beliefs and feelings in order to be able to respond differently to urges and temptations
• Provides opportunities to learn how to embrace new ways of behaving that promotes positive change

Gambling Information and Treatment Group (GIT)

• Offers an educational group open to anyone interested in understanding more about gambling and related issues

Youth in Transition (YIT) Program

Offers specialized programs for youth and young adults who are bridging the gap between adolescence and adulthood including:

• Harm reduction group
• Information, education and skill building activities
• Alternative strategies to problem gambling

Family Program

• Offers support for partners and family members because they often experience stress, anxiety and depression as they focus on the person with the addiction and so may neglect their own needs
• Offers individual or couples counselling which can include children and parents
• Provides group sessions, allowing an opportunity to connect with other people who are struggling with the impact of addiction on their families and relationships

Other Behavioural Addictions
Provides support for managing:

• Problematic gaming (video game addiction)
• Internet/online overuse
• Shopping/overspending
• Problematic sexual behaviour (pornography or sex addiction/hypersexuality)

• Provides a range of responsive individual, family and community programs and services for the complete life journey of all Anishinabek people
• Cares for the physical health, mental health, and the health of the communities where Anishinabek people live by promoting wellness, preventing illness and trauma, and providing diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation

Offers a variety of program and services including:

• Child Welfare Services
• Cultural Programs and Services
• Health Services, also under Dilico Family Health Team Clinic
• Mental Health and Addiction Services including walk-in clinics

Community health centre

• Provides a range of responsive individual, family and community programs and services for the complete life journey of all Anishinabek people
• Cares for the physical health, mental health, and the health of the communities where Anishinabek people live by promoting wellness, preventing illness and trauma, and providing diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation

Offers a variety of programs and services including:

• Child welfare services
• Community health services
• Cultural programs and services
• Mental health and addiction services including walk-in clinics

Note: Not all programs and services are available at the branch offices. Contact the local office to determine what services are offered in community

• Offers counselling services to children and youth, both individually and with family
• Provides case management and advocacy if needed

Beneficial for children and youth experiencing significant issues related to:

• Anxiety
• Attention deficit issues
• Depression
• Family conflict
• Identity issues
• Mood swings
• Peer issues
• Self-esteem issues
• Self harm
• Suicidal thoughts

• Provides support services to Indigenous women and their families who are struggling with mental health issues
• Aims to help improve Indigenous health and reduce family violence

Services offered include:

• Access to elders and healers
• Addictions
• Aftercare support
• Land-based therapy
• Mental health
• Traditional counselling
• Referrals to other programs or agencies
• Sharing/healing circles

• Provides housing for individuals with a serious mental illness or concurrent disorder (mental illness and addiction)
• Provides subsidized housing and case management services
• Ensures the individual is living responsibly by providing regular home visits from a case manager

Note: Does not provide emergency or crisis housing

• Provides case management services to adults living with a mental illness and a developmental delay
• Promotes recovery and independence while providing appropriate community based support

Provides the following services:

• Assistance in accessing mental health and/or psychiatric services
• Help to integrate into the community, advocating with informal and formal community resources
• Referrals to community agencies, where appropriate
• Assistance in accessing income support such as Ontario Works and Ontario Disability Support Program
• Housing rent supplement
• Assistance in obtaining and maintaining housing in the community

Offers case management services and housing for individuals who are struggling with an addiction and are homeless or at risk of being homeless

Provides the following services:

• Assistance in accessing mental health and/or addiction services
• Intervention strategies that include harm reduction approach and abstinence based model in efforts to assist in addressing substance use
• Help to integrate into the community advocating with informal and formal community resources
• Referrals to community agencies, where appropriate
• Assistance in accessing income support such as Ontario Works and Ontario Disability Support Program
• Housing rent supplement
• Assistance in obtaining and maintaining housing in the community

Provides assessments, counselling, consultations and in-service training for individuals with a developmental disability, their families and agencies that support them

Provides or has access to specialized services in:

• Health care
• Occupational Therapy
• Social Work
• Speech/Language
• Dual Diagnosis
• Psychology
• Positive Behavioural Services
• Children's Behavioural Services (ages 6-18 years)
• Community Outreach/Non-Traditional Supports
• Partnership with TBRHSC-Forensics Program

LOCAL CMHA BRANCH SERVICES DURING COVID-19

CMHA branches are open but many are offering alternative service delivery at this time
Service delivery may be provided:

• in person
• by phone

or in the following virtual ways:

• PCVC - Personal computer video conferencing
• OTN - Ontario Telemedicine Network
• ZOOM - Video/web conferencing platform

Please note: CMHA branch offerings are subject to change in response to the ongoing developments of COVID-19. The website below will reflect the most accurate and current information.

Follow this link to determine how service delivery is being provided by choosing the appropriate CMHA location from the website's drop down list.

• Identifies and responds to the unmet needs of vulnerable persons with very serious, unstable, and complex mental illnesses, addiction, and social issues
• Reaches out to and engages with individuals who often have difficulty accessing traditional health and social services
• Assists individuals in navigating health, mental health, addictions, and social services, including housing
• Provides primary care in a less formal setting

• Functions as a community-based intensive case management program
• Provides rehabilitation, treatment, and support services to individuals with severe and persistent mental illness
• Helps individuals to live successfully in the community

Services are provided by a variety of healthcare professionals, including:

• Nursing
• Occupational Therapy
• Peer support specialist
• Psychiatry and family medicine
• Psychology
• Social Work
• Therapeutic Recreation

Community health centre

• Provides a range of responsive individual, family and community programs and services for the complete life journey of all Anishinabek people
• Cares for the physical health, mental health, and the health of the communities where Anishinabek people live by promoting wellness, preventing illness and trauma, and providing diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation

Offers a variety of programs and services including:

• Child welfare services
• Community health services
• Cultural programs and services
• Mental health and addiction services including walk-in clinics

Note: Not all programs and services are available at the branch offices. Contact the local office to determine what services are offered in community

Community health centre

• Provides a range of responsive individual, family and community programs and services for the complete life journey of all Anishinabek people
• Cares for the physical health, mental health, and the health of the communities where Anishinabek people live by promoting wellness, preventing illness and trauma, and providing diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation

Offers a variety of programs and services including:

• Child welfare services
• Community health services
• Cultural programs and services
• Mental health and addiction services including walk-in clinics

Note: Not all programs and services are available at the branch offices. Contact the local office to determine what services are offered in community