The Beneficiary Employment and Engagement focus area aims to improve outcomes for beneficiaries through integrated, competitive employment, and meaningful engagement opportunities. The Trust promotes evidence-based strategies and best practices that increase opportunities and enable beneficiaries to gain integrated, competitive employment and meaningful engagement in their communities. The Trust supports varying strategies through both funding and advocacy that include integrated employment supports, meaningful activities, beneficiary and workforce training, and peer-based recovery support programs.

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Trust beneficiaries are at increased risk for involvement with the criminal justice system, both as victims and defendants, due to their disabilities as well as deficiencies in the community treatment and support systems. Hundreds of beneficiaries each year are incarcerated for their safety because adequate service alternatives do not exist. Thousands more are arrested for offenses resulting from behaviors associated with symptoms of their mental disorders. The disability justice focus area is aimed at reducing the involvement and recidivism of Trust beneficiaries in the criminal justice system. The Trust’s board of trustees has directed significant funding and staff resources towards criminal justice reform efforts in Alaska to address this and other justice related issues affecting beneficiaries, including reducing the involvement and recidivism of Trust beneficiaries in the criminal justice system as well as preventing the victimization of beneficiaries. The Trust uses the Sequential Intercept Model as the foundation for making funding allocations and policy decisions. The overall goals are:

• Developing criminal justice and community behavioral health partnerships;
• Civerting trust beneficiaries from the criminal justice system; and,
• Maintaining public safety by improving the health of beneficiaries and Alaska communities.
• Below are the SIM intercepts where strategies and Trust supported activities are employed to achieve the goals above:
• Systems and Policy Development
• Increased Capacity, Training and Competencies
• Community Prevention
• Community Intervention/Diversion
• Booking and Screening Practices
• In-facility Practices
• Re-entry
• Community Aftercare

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The Trust's Housing and Long-Term Services & Supports focus area concentrates on ensuring beneficiaries have access to a continuum of services and supports that maximize independence in their home and community. Supportive housing services are for people who are homeless who have one or more chronic conditions or disabilities and need a range of support services to remain housed. People who are served through supportive housing have a history of institutionalization or are at risk of institutionalization.  LTSS are delivered in home- and community-based settings as well as institutions.  Assistive technology, devices, equipment, smart home technology, physical alterations to a home including ramps, and technology based interactive medical devices are examples of supports that can be put in place to support a person. Services examples include:

• Case management
• Care coordination
• Personal care services
• Supervision and cuing
• Transportation
• Supported employment
• Chore
• Respite
• Assisted living home care. 

Services typically involve a combination of family caregivers and direct service workers. Goals of this focus area are to:

• Reduce number of beneficiaries who experience homelessness
• Increase access to affordable housing
• Ensure overall system of care is person directed
• Build a robust continuum of care that supports autonomy, independence and inclusion
• Funding is allocated by the following strategies:
• Policy coordination
• Beneficiary access to appropriate community based services
• Beneficiaries live in safe, affordable housing through a balanced continuum of housing
• Home- and community-based services

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The Trust shifts its focus and limited funding to other important needs in order to make additional improvements to the state’s comprehensive mental health program. In keeping with this proven formula, the Trust provided the transitional funding necessary to support the essential administrative infrastructure for Medicaid expansion enrollment. The goal is a redesigned and enhanced system of behavioral health services that fully encompasses health promotion, prevention, early intervention, appropriate treatment and the services and necessary supports to sustain a person in recovery.

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The Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment focus area is focused on the full continuum of care from prevention and early intervention to treatment and recovery for Trust beneficiaries.  A wide range of partners are necessary to address this and to develop effective strategies that may be mutually supported through leveraged funding and effort. Planning and engagement at this level ensures positive impacts across the lifespan of beneficiaries ensuring healthier lives and increased quality of life.

Access to treatment is of considerable concern to the Trust and our partners, while most individuals with addictions do not enter a formal drug and alcohol treatment program, we want to ensure our state has statewide capacity and availability of treatment when an individual is ready for it. The needs of Alaskans and the capacity of the behavioral health system to meet those needs have evolved over the years and will continue to do so with statewide reforms underway which include a redesign of our current behavioral health system of care. To better understand our services, the Trust commissioned a statewide assessment of services, with the ultimate goal of utilizing this information to inform decision-making, at the regional and statewide levels, and to improve system functioning so that it can produce better outcomes for the people it serves. The overall goals are to decrease youth alcohol and substance use and adult binge drinking and illicit drug use. And, ultimately, that adults and children are free of the burdens created by alcohol and substance abuse. Currently the Trust focuses investments toward the following areas:

• Engaged state, tribal and community based partnership in the development of strategies and policy related to substance abuse/use and prevention.
• Investing in programs and strategies to enhance access to treatment including screening, brief intervention and treatment and enhancement of primary care/behavioral health integration.
• Support to criminal justice re-entry coalitions working towards reduction of recidivism and linkage of services and supports to support successful re-entry and stability in the community.
• Funding of innovative strategies that both expand access to treatment and address other key Trust investment areas such as beneficiary employment and engagement, housing and homelessness, disability justice and re-entry initiatives, early intervention and workforce.
• Capital funding to support improved access, service enhancement or capacity expansion for drug and alcohol treatment.

The Trust provides technical assistance to agencies serving trust beneficaries to support organizational capacity development, enhancement and sustainability of services.

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Active Parenting (4th Edition) is a video-based education program targeted to parents of 2- to 12-year-olds who want to improve their parenting skills. It is based on the application of Adlerian parenting theory, which is defined by mutual respect among family members within an authoritatively run family. The program teaches parents how to raise a child by using encouragement, building the child’s self-esteem, and creating a relationship with the child based upon active listening, effective communication, and problem solving. It also teaches parents to use natural and logical consequences and other positive discipline skills to reduce irresponsible and unacceptable behaviors.

Alcohol Literacy Challenge is a brief classroom-based program designed to alter alcohol expectancies and reduce the quantity and frequency of alcohol use among high school and college students. Alcohol expectancies are an individual’s beliefs about the anticipated effects of alcohol use, including those that are positive (e.g., increased sociability, reduced tension) and negative (e.g., impairments to mental and behavioral functioning, increased aggressiveness or risk taking). Some of the most desired effects–the arousing, positive, and prosocial effects–are placebo effects rather than pharmacological ones. ALC aims to correct erroneous beliefs about the effects of alcohol, decreasing positive and increasing negative expectancies. These shifts in expectancies have been shown to predict lower levels of alcohol use.

Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) comprises five progressive components in which trainees gradually build comfort and understanding around suicide and suicide intervention. ASIST participants learn to:

• Understand attitudes about suicide
• Provide guidance and suicide first aid to a person at risk
• Identify the key elements of an effective suicide safety plan and the actions required to implement it
• Appreciate the value of improving community suicide prevention resources and
• Recognize important aspects of suicide prevention, including life-promotion and self-care.

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Connect trains professionals and community members to prevent and respond effectively to suicide across the lifespan. The public health, socio-ecological model emphasizes collaboration between service providers. Best practice protocols are provided for each service provider discipline. The training can be customized to meet the needs of a community or organization.

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Counseling on Access to Lethal Means (CALM) is a course that explains why means restriction is an important part of a comprehensive approach to suicide prevention. It will teach you how to ask suicidal patients/clients about their access to lethal means, and work with them and their families to reduce their access.

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Kognito offers a variety of different learning scenarios including but not limited to:

• At-Risk on Campus for Faculty & Students
• At-Risk in the ER
• LGBTQ on Campus for Faculty & Students
• Start the Talk: Underage Drinking and
• Veterans on Campus: Peer Program.

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Late Life Suicide Prevention Toolkit is an educational program developed for use by front-line providers, medical and mental health care clinicians, and health care trainees. It focuses on how to identify suicide warning signs, establish rapport and assess suicide risk and resiliency factors, and manage immediate and ongoing risk for suicide among older adults.

Mental Health First Aid is a certification course that helps people assist an individual experiencing a mental health or substance use-related crisis. In the Mental Health First Aid course, one learns about:

• Risk factors and warning signs for mental health and addiction concerns
• Strategies for how to help someone in both crisis and non-crisis situations and
• Where to turn for help

MHFA has several supplemental courses including youth and adolescents, military and veterans, older adults, Spanish, public safety, and higher education.

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Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR)  is 3 simple steps anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide. Just as people trained in CPR and the Heimlich Maneuver help save thousands of lives each year, people trained in QPR learn how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to question, persuade, and refer someone to help. Each year thousands of Americans, like you, are saying “Yes” to saving the life of a friend, colleague, sibling, or neighbor. QPR can be learned in as little as one hour.

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Sources of Strength is a comprehensive wellness program that uses the combined power of peer and caring adult relationships to improve social norms, enhance coping and social support, and increase help-seeking behaviors in order to reduce conditions that give rise to suicide and other risk-taking behaviors. Trained teams of adult advisors and a diverse group of peer leaders attempt to impact their local teen and young adult cultures through conversations within their friendship groups and by delivering a series of “Hope, Help, and Strength” messages via:

• Classroom presentations
• Public service announcements
• Posters
• Videos
• The internet and
• Text messaging.

The program is strength-based and promotes eight critical protective factors that are linked to overall psychological wellness and reduced suicide risk. The program can be implemented in schools or colleges, as well as in faith, cultural, and community-based settings.

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Survivor Voices: Sharing the Story of Suicide Loss is a two-day training designed to teach those bereaved by suicide how to speak safely and effectively about their experience and loss. Through the sharing of personal stories, survivors of suicide loss provide insight that goes beyond traditional suicide prevention training. These insights can promote healing for those who are newly bereaved, educate the public about how to support survivors of suicide loss, and increase awareness and understanding of risk factors and warning signs for suicide.

The School’s Mental Wellness Initiative is the most comprehensive education program to address mental wellness in our school districts. The Initiative is a collaboration between various organizations to invest in the mental acuity of students, school staff, and the community. Each organization focuses on their particular expertise, allowing a higher quality of content in each aspect of the program. The Initiative is offered a la carte, so school districts can work with us to provide an experience that is meaningful to you.

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American Mental Wellness Association 25 Spruce Road Marysville, PA 17053 USA

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United States of America

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nfo@AmericanMentalWellness.org

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Veterans Self Help Training Courses is a resource for military and veterans with self-help courses such as Anger & Irritability Management Skills, Moving Forward, Veteran Parenting, and PTSD Online Life coach.

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Working Minds: Suicide Prevention in the Workplace program toolkit features a facilitator’s guide, trainee workbooks, and supplemental materials designed to help workplace administrators and employees better understand and prevent suicide. The program helps workplaces appreciate the critical need for suicide prevention while creating a forum for dialogue and critical thinking about workplace mental health challenges. The program builds a business case for suicide prevention while promoting help-seeking and help-giving. Several interactive exercises and case studies help employers and their staff apply and customize the content to their specific work culture. The training is delivered in a 2 hour version or 4 hour Pro version.

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Affect Science in Medicine is an initiative that seeks to promote scientific excellence in an area considered foundational for psychosomatic medicine while further enhancing the clinical relevance of our research. Six topic areas have been identified:

• Early life adversity and emotions
• Physiological manifestations of emotions
• Implicit measures of affect
• Bidirectional brain-body interactions
• Maladaptive emotion regulation
• Emotion in social relationships

A major goal of this SIG is to generate a separate white paper on each topic. Each white paper will take stock of current knowledge and methods and address the research agenda for the foreseeable future regarding both basic science and clinical applications.

The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease Special Interest Group aims for an increasing number of researchers to present their work on early life factors affecting developmental and health outcomes. APS members are in a unique position to contribute to this area of research both by virtue of their overall guiding interest in health outcomes and in their diverse set of skills and interests related to the role of early adversity in health and disease outcomes.

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Gerry Giesbrecht

The Past Leaders Special Interest Group is a group of previous leaders of the Society provides important perspectives about many relevant issues, including the current state and direction of the Society, its potential future goals, how it might relate to other professional groups. The Past Leaders are encouraged to participate on each of the APS committees. The Past Leaders Special Interest Group meets at a dinner during the Annual Meeting, convenes by conference call at least twice each year, and engages in other business such as nominating individuals for APS awards, or communicating about specific activities by email and use of the APS website.

The Diversity Initiative Group is building success through inclusion by facilitating cross-cultural interactions which promote the APS mission and to attract scientifically minded individuals from diverse cultures recognizing their unique contributions. The Diversity Initiative Group aims to celebrate, not just tolerate, the inclusion of multicultural scientific activities geared toward suppressing health disparities as well as participate in networking opportunities to build effective collaboration with other minority and international organizations

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Tené Lewis

The Emerging Leaders Initiative (ELI) is a diverse and vibrant group of early career members and trainees in psychosomatic medicine. It aims to promote the development of early career members and trainees as scholars and leaders in psychosomatic medicine andto advance APS' research, clinical, and membership goals. The ELI provides leadership, service, and professional development opportunities that will positively impact the research and clinical trajectories of APS early career members and trainees, ultimately helping them to become effective leaders and collaborators in their own fields and within APS. It also aims to activelu contribute in APS by serving on committees and working on and developing new committee-driven and ELI-driven initiatives, ultimately helping to advance APS' research, clinical, and membership goals. The ELI:

• Reviews educational materials and resources to be posted on the website 
• Video records and edits conference presentations 
• Assist with conference programming. In the future
• Engages early career members and trainees, including travel scholarship winners
• Helps increase APS's presence on social media to promote members and highlight relevant news and
• Creates conference programming beneficial to early career members and trainees.

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APSEmergingLeaders@gmail.com

The Sexual Minority Health Special Interest Group aims to promote interactions among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer members and their allies in the American Psychosomatic Society for the promotion of collaborations on LGBTQ-related health research to deepen our understanding of sexual minority Health Status Throughout the Life Course.

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Eli Puterman

Residents live in individual or shared apartments while participating in a program of therapeutic activities, supportive relationships, and psychiatric treatment. Clinicians often spend time in residents’ homes each day to gain insight that enhances treatment and recovery. For some, this style of residence minimizes the perceived stigma of living in a mental health facility. They provide regular visits from mental health clinicians, location close to a central “therapeutic community” gathering place, have a greater degree of independence than other settings and the nature and degree of clinical treatment varies.

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Residential psychiatric facilities offer a home-like atmosphere and strong sense of community that help residents build self-esteem, develop relationships, and improve life skills. In clinical residential treatment programs, clinicians can view the full picture of a resident’s functioning and use that perspective and insight to fine-tune psychiatric therapy. They provide intensive, professional mental health treatment provided daily on-premises, individual psychotherapy, group therapy, vocational/educational counseling and support and treatment for co-occurring addictions.

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Residential treatment communities, residents participate in daily work, which plays a key role in their growth and recovery. Meaningful, necessary work provides tangible results by teaching new skills, building self-esteem, and fostering supportive connections among teammates. These provide a range of therapeutic work opportunities, which may include clerical work, agricultural work, building maintenance and repair, and retail sales,an opportunity to learn skills that can be marketable and a variety of clinical treatment approaches, with some programs offering a rich array of psychiatric therapy services.

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The family-like atmosphere of group homes is a major therapeutic tool, providing increased quality of life and continued growth. Residential treatment in a group home helps people with psychiatric disorders repair self-esteem, build skills, develop relationships, and learn to manage their mental health symptoms. They provide a stable, long-term living arrangement, clinical treatment may be optional and occurs off-site and th length of stay varies and can be for an extended period.

The POST Program offers tailored clinical training fellowships in mental health for individual psychiatrists, nurses and allied health professionals from the Asia-Pacific region.

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The Association For Mental Health & Wellness have two Centers for Recovery and Wellness – Pollack Center in Ronkonkoma and Synergy Center in Riverhead. These centres offer services based upon national evidence-based rehabilitation research. Using individual and classroom-based modalities, our well-trained staff engages each participant to identify their own overall recovery goals and the specific barriers that have obstructed his/her path to a happy, healthy, and productive life. These Centers operate under the Personalized Recovery-Oriented Services (PROS) licenses from the New York State Office of Mental Health.

Psychiatric Rehabilitation Programs

The centers assist participants to achieve goals of work, education, social connection, housing, community involvement, and health; overcoming the impact of psychiatric illness and disability that have obstructed these personal goals is a primary focus Such barriers often include learning impairments, substance abuse, physical and health challenges, poverty, homelessness, or family distress. Our Centers actively employ creative and expressive arts, symptom management strategies, adventure-based activities, peer support strategies, and cognitive remediation techniques– are all integral to helping people challenge personal barriers and rebuild their lives in recovery.

Employment & Career Services

The Centre have helped hundreds of people to return to work and school in order to jump-start or resume their careers. Through a range of a range of services offered to help people in recovery, we assist participants to overcome the impact of illness and disability that may have previously obstructed their career path.

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The Chemical Free Garden in Ronkonkoma grows vegetables, herbs, and fruit. Twenty three raised garden beds provide fresh lettuces, tomatoes, cucumber, peppers, broccoli, squash, eggplant, strawberries, various herbs, and more during the growing season. Grape vines, raspberry and blueberry bushes grow along the back fence. Heirloom seeds are first grown indoors, then transplanted to our garden and fed organic compost and fertilizer. The garden activities also complement other wellness program such as T’ai Chi and Smoking Cessation, where members learn how foods, in tandem with routine exercise and a tobacco-free lifestyle, can help in achieving health goals such as weight loss, increased strength, and endurance.

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rmcdade@mhaw.org

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The Association for Mental Health & Wellness have helped hundreds of people to return to work and school in order to jump-start or resume their careers. Through a range of a range of services offered to help people in recovery, we assist particiapants to overcome the impact of illness and disability that may have previously obstructed their career path. Their staff assists participants to use the strengths and skills that gained from life experiences to address these barriers so they can pursue a job with pride and confidence.

• Center-based Services: centers allow participants to brush-up on skills through work-ordered units and activities while using rehabilitation tools to chart their course to employment. Our centers offer computer-based technologies for assessment, skill-building, and resource acquisition.
• Job Development/Job Finding: securing a job that matches your preferences and workplace needs is challenging but critical for long term success. Our agency connects with small and large businesses in the community to identify employers with opportunities and a positive workplace culture. Working with our Business Advisory Council, we are able to help our participants to find fulfilling work.
• Flexible Coaching & Support: MHAW offers on and off-site support and coaching. Whether at the workplace, a breakfast or lunch spot, at our offices or by phone, we can design your support contacts to meet the employee’s needs and schedule.
• Entitlements Planning & Management: the complicated maze of SSI, SSD, and Public Assistance rules can sometimes make returning to work treacherous. Our employment staff will help participants to understand and manage the impact of earnings on their financial situation.
• Cognitive Remediation: the cognitive remediation program is a State-wide leader in integrating the use of computer-based strategies to improve memory, concentration, organization and other functions that have been impaired by illness, and medication.
• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Accommodations: should employees choose to disclose their disability to their employer, we can help to consider and negotiate reasonable workplace accommodations – most of which pose no cost to employers – that can make employees more productive, valuable, and satisfied.
• Peer Support & Celebration: MHAW have regular dinner meetings at local restaurants for the purpose of support, getting ideas from others in recovery about achieving success, and for celebrating those successes.
• Supported Education & Career Development: MHAW's Centers have relationships with local schools, colleges, and universities and can provide you with information, connections, and the coaching necessary to overcome long-standing challenges. This includes learning issues, decision-making skills, anxiety reduction, financial planning, time management, and more.

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Family support groups are recognized by the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) as an evidence-based practice that offers hope, guidance, advocacy, and camaraderie for parents and caregivers of adults receiving services from mental health, substance use, and related service systems. Family support is a great means for families to gain awareness and guidance for supporting their loved one, such as:

• Understanding of the core concepts and experience of recovery
• Instruction about treatment, rehabilitation, peer support, and self-care regimens that serve to safely sustain family members– and prevent relapse –in recovery at home and in the community.
• Development and enhancement of the family’s specific problem-solving skills and coping mechanisms.
• Connection to key community and learning resources

The goal of family support is to help the family adapt to the impact of mental illness on the entire family, to acquire new coping skills, and to regain a new and positive family life.

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qregula@mhaw.org

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Food pantries provide packages of food to hundreds of families and individuals. The pantries are managed and run by our members and volunteer Veterans who gain valuable work experience. They help meet the great need that exists for access to nutritional foods and household items.

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Healing Connections Peer Support Groups were created for and by people who experience emotional distress, voices and visions, extreme and/or altered states of consciousness, labels of psychiatry, substance use, and trauma/trauma responses. We come together to share information, hope, joys, fears, successes, and hardships in the “most” safe space we co-create to mutually support, heal, and grow together. We all are collectively responsible for the comfort of our group!

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United States of America

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healingconnections@mhaw.org

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Healing Connections a support group for and by people who experience emotional distress, voices and visions, extreme and altered states of consciousness, labels of psychiatry, substance use, and trauma/trauma responses. Healing Connections Peer Support Groups were created for and by people who experience emotional distress, voices and visions, extreme and altered states of consciousness, labels of psychiatric diagnosis, substance use, and trauma/trauma responses. We come together to share information, hope, joys, fears, successes, and hardships in the ‘most’ safe space we co-create to mutually support, heal, and grow together. We all are collectively responsible for the comfort of our group! Healing Connections’ facilitators are trained Peer Specialist, who have their own experience with emotional distress. The facilitators are there to guide the support group and offer peer support.

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The New York State’s Supportive Case Management Program as part of the Governor’s Medicaid Redesign Taskforce. It moved oversight of Health Home Care Management (HHCM) from the New York State Office of Mental Health (NYSOMH) to the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH). This change in oversight shifted our program. Working in collaboration with Hudson River Health, MHAW helps eligible clients with serious mental illness, HIV/AIDS, or two or more other serious and chronic physical, psychiatric, or substance abuse health conditions. Based in Riverhead and Ronkonkoma, our HHCM program supports clients by way of a team approach. Each team consists of three to five staff members: a Master’s-level Team Leader/Supervisor and two to four Bachelor’s-level Care Managers. An additional team provides outreach and engagement services to people in hospitals, referred by community agencies, families, health and behavioral health providers, and other human and social services. Their care managers connect with people in their homes, at community venues, and in facilities in communities across Suffolk County. The effectiveness and quality of services provided by our HHCM program are monitored by the NYSDOH.

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lwiggins@mhaw.org

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MHAW’s Children’s Care Management Program is designed to align with the three core goals of the Governor’s Medicaid Redesign Taskforce to improve care and health outcomes, reduce preventable emergency room visits and hospitalizations & lower cost of healthcare and social services. This is achieved by emphasizing care coordination and care management for all children with physical and behavioral health needs. Care Managers assist children with physical and behavioral health challenges to access and coordinate all of their healthcare and social service needs. Services include:

• Develop a personal plan to meet one’s physical, mental health, chemical dependency, and social service needs.
• Coordinate, monitor, and evaluate the ongoing effectiveness of the child’s care.
• Provide follow-up from inpatient and emergency room care to help prevent re-admissions.
• Assist children and families with access to important resources such as public assistance, housing, child care, food pantries, transportation, and more.
• Provide physical and behavioral health education and support for the child, their family members, and other caregivers.
• Ensure that all providers share vital information electronically to ensure the most safe and effective services.

Care managers work in teams to connect with children in their homes and at healthcare, education and social service sites across Suffolk County. Our teams also reach out to engage children and their families in hospitals and those referred by community agencies, families, schools, health/behavioral health providers, and other social services. The effectiveness and quality of services provided by our program are monitored by the New York State Department of Health and the New York State Office of Mental Health.

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kmartin@mhaw.org

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Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) are individualized, focused services designed to assist people in recovery with mental health and/or addiction challenges to achieve short and long-term goals. By achieving these goals, the person can expect longer-term, improved health and a network of support to sustain it.

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kgraziano@mhaw.org

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The Housing Mediation program helps residents living in mental health housing to resolve conflicts with their roommate(s) and/or with a housing agency. We guide the involved parties toward a mutually accepted agreement with the goal of assisting people to preserve their housing. We offer workshops on communications skills, support towards resolution, and information concerning individual rights.
 

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shopkins-ouedraogo@mhaw.org

Call 631 226 3900

The Joseph P. Dwyer Veterans Peer Support Project provides Veteran-led peer support groups at sites across Suffolk County. 

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United States of America

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vetspeertopeer@suffolkcountyny.gov

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MHAW’s Mental Health Helpline is available to all Suffolk County Residents who require help in finding and accessing assistance for themselves, for a friend, or a family member. We provide information and referrals to community resources for persons living with mental illness, their families, and service providers. When a Mental Health Helpline call is received, a brief assessment will be conducted with the individual caller so they can be linked to an appropriate resource. When needed, callers may be provided with additional advocacy through direct phone calls to other service providers to arrange for appropriate services.

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United States of America

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helpline@mhaw.org

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The Mental Health Professional Training program offers workshops that respond to the current needs of our professional community. Topics have included:

• Best practices for working with Veterans
• How to best serve children of immigrant families, and
• Arange of clinical services pertaining to children and familie

The Association for Mental Health and Wellness is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board of Mental Health Professionals to provide Continuing Education Hours for professionals: Workshop may range from three hours to full day conferences. These workshops help to keep Long Island professionals informed of the most current and effective practices.

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arodgers@mhaw.org

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Peer Support Line is for and by people who experience emotional distress, voices and visions, extreme and altered states of consciousness, labels of psychiatry, substance use, and trauma/trauma responses. The Peer Support Line Peer Specialists is trained by Careers in Recovery and Wellness Training Center (click here for more information) and have accomplished their New York Peer Specialist Certification. The Peer Support Line offers one-to-one telephone mutual support, an empathetic, listening ear, and conversations for connecting, sharing, supporting, and vibing.

Contact:
Tracy Puglisi
Coordinator of Peer Recovery and Wellness Education

631-471-7242 x 1302

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tpuglisi@mhaw.org

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The Association for Mental Health and Wellness, a NY Project Hope local crisis counseling provider, helps Suffolk County residents understand their reaction and emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through an emotional support helpline, educational materials, and trusted referrals, NY Project Hope provides support so that people can manage the changes brought on by COVID-19.

Whether you want to learn about reliable community resources, or you just want to talk . . . maybe it’s both. Whatever it is that you need as you work to navigate your way through these very unusual times, we are here for you during COVID-19. If you decide to call our Emotional Support Helpline, you will reach someone who has been trained to hear what you are saying and give you the kind of support that works best for you during the pandemic . . . whether it’s coping strategies, resources or a chance to talk.  The call is always free, confidential, and anonymous.

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A Recovery Center is a peer-run program activities that are designed to help individuals with one or more psychiatric diagnoses to live, work and fully participate in communities. These activities are based on the principle that people who share common conditions or experiences can be of substantial assistance to each other. Specific program activities are designed to:

• Build on existing best practices in self-help, peer support, and mutual support;
• Assist individuals in identifying, remembering, or discovering their own passions in life;
• Provide individual, peer mentoring services to connect people who have rejected “formal” behavioral health services;
• Offer services geared to engage people with psychiatric disabilities into employment, education, and career development, and;
• Support individuals in linking to community groups, organizations, networks or places that will nurture and feed an individual’s passions in life.
• Social, recreation events with a focus on community participation opportunities will be the basis for exposing individuals to potential passion areas through dynamic experiences, in contrast to traditional lectures and presentations.

MHAW’s Recovery Center seeks to engage people who are often disengaged by formal mental health system programs but who live with risk factors that may lead them to prescription drug/substance abuse, emergency rooms, and hospital settings. The Center’s focus is on an individual’s strengths and interest rather than traditional labels and diagnoses. The program serves as a peer-run community-learning center for advancing the power and impact of peer-to-peer relationships and Certified Peer Specialist practice.

Address
1380 Roanoke Ave. Riverhead, NY 11901

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United States of America

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rceast@mhaw.org

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Address
1380 Roanoke Avenue, 1st Floor Riverhead, NY 11901

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United States of America

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lschagter@mhaw.org

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Address
939 Johnson Avenue Ronkonkoma, NY 11779

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United States of America

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jforrest@mhaw.org

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MHAW offers speakers on a variety of topics concerning mental health challenges and mental illnesses. Topics can include:

• Suicide Prevention
• Mental Health First Aid (How to intervene when someone shows signs of a MH condition)
• Workplace Wellness
• Myths and Realities About Mental Illness and Recovery
• Dual Disorders: Mental Illness and Substance Use and Abuse
• Mental Health Challenges Beneath Physical Health Conditions
• How to Get Help When Your Loved One Has A Mental Illness

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Alexis Rodgers, LMSW
Coordinator for Community Outreach & Education

ext.1315

Contact Person / Email
arodgers@mhaw.org

Call 631 471 7242

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The supportive housing program provides dignified homes for 20 people who are in recovery from mental illness. Our houses and apartments are located in Brookhaven, Islip and Riverhead townships. Participation in our program includes helping people achieve the highest level of independence possible with the skills and supports that will allow them to consider opportunities for higher levels of financial independence and asset development.

Contact Person / Email
mseiferth@mhaw.org

Call 631 4717242

The Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) Health and Wellbeing Alliance has been established to facilitate integrated working between the voluntary and statutory sectors, support a two way flow of information between communities, the VCSE sector and policy leads, amplify the voice of the VCSE sector and people with lived experience to inform national policy and facilitate co-produced solutions to promote equality and reduce health inequalities.The HW Alliance is jointly managed by the Department of Health (DH), Public Health England (PHE), and NHS England, and is made up of 21 VCSE Members that represent communities who share protected characteristics or that experience health inequalities. Through their networks HW Alliance Members can link with communities and VCSE organisations across England.

The Consortia links strategically to undertake specific agreed work programmes aimed at benefiting the strategic development of the mental health voluntary sector. The Association has been working in partnership with organisations across the voluntary and community sector to identify opportunities for improvement in mental health service provision. The objectives of the Programme are to:

• Encourage co-production in the creation of person-centred, community-based health and care which promotes equality for all;
• Enable the voice of people with lived experience and those experiencing health inequalities to inform national policy making and shape the delivery of services;
• Build evidence of sustainable, scalable solutions to mitigate and prevent inequalities impacting on the health and wellbeing of communities.

The Programme will seek to achieve its objectives through two co-dependent funded mechanisms: a national partnership arrangement: the VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance; and funding for bespoke projects: the VCSE Health and Wellbeing Fund.

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The Mental Health Recovery Star was developed as an outcome measure to enable people using services to work with their service provider to measure their own recovery progress. The ‘Star’ contains ten areas covering the main aspects of people’s lives, including living skills, relationships, work and identity and self-esteem. Service users set their personal goals within each area and measure over time how far they are progressing towards these goals. This can help them identify their goals and what support they need to reach them, and ensure they are making progress, however gradual, which itself can encourage hope. The Recovery Star enables staff to support individuals they work with to understand their recovery and plot their progress. The Recovery Star also enables organisations to measure and assess the effectiveness of the services they deliver.

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Child and young people services at AWP include:

• Child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS): community teams that help children and young people with emotional, behavioural and mental health difficulties. CAMHS includes specialist teams to help with learning disabilities, self-harm, substance and alcohol misuse, sexual behaviour (Be Safe), eating disorders and supporting children in care (Thinking Allowed)
• Riverside Unit: AWP's 10-bed mental health inpatient unit for young people. The Riverside team also provides a day service for young people and works closely with our community CAMHSteams and the rest of the Community Children's Health Partnership in Bristol and South Gloucestershire.

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A range of specialist services designed to provide care and support to people in homes and community settings (such as clinics), causing as little disruption as possible to everyday family and working life. the major community services AWP provides include:

• Acute hospital liaison
• Adult recovery services
• Complex intervention team
• Early intervention in psychosis
• Intensive services
• Learning disabilities
• Primary care liaison service
• Street triage service

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Drug and alcohol services provided by AWP include:

• Community teams
• Detox and stabilisation
• Criminal justice services
• Addiction and alcohol
• Drug and alcohol videos

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AWP supports people live in their own homes and are supported by community services, within their own family and social networks.  For those people who cannot live in their own homes due to the complexity, intensity and unpredictability of their condition, our inpatient services provide specialist investigation, assessment and intervention. The vast majority of those receiving treatment in inpatient wards are there voluntarily in the same way that people with physical health illnesses can be admitted to hospital. About 25% of service users in an inpatient unit within AWP are detained under the Mental Health Act. The main specialist services we provide in our inpatient units include:

• Adult acute inpatients
• Later life inpatient services
• Psychiatric intensive care
• Rehabilitation
• Secure services

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Patient Advice and Liaison Service is a free, confidential and impartial service available to everyone who uses the Trust's mental health services, their families, carers or anyone who needs advice, information, support or guidance with a particular issue. PALS can help if you are worried and not sure what to do or where to go, you need clarity about a situation, you want someone to listen to your experience of services or you need information and help.

PALS provide the opportunity to discuss in confidence any concerns or comments you may have about the care you or someone you care for is receiving. PALS guides through through the different services available in the Trust. We can also tell you about other mental health services in the NHS or other independent organisations. They can help you to resolve situations and concerns quickly without having to go through the formal complaints system. We can also support you through the formal complaints system if this is your wish. We can also pass on praise and compliments to staff and services if you have had a good experience of our services.

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Specialist Services provided by AWP include:

• Active Life
• Bristol ADHD clinic
• BASS Autism Services for Adults
• Care home liaison
• Specialised deaf service
• Electroconvulsive therapy
• Memory services
• Mother and baby unit
• Nutrition and dietetics
• Pathfinder
• Place of Safety (S136)
• IAPT services
• Veteran’s Mental Health Transition, Intervention and Liaison Service
• Specialist psychological service for anxiety and related problems
• Therapies
• Treatment for eating disorders
• Wiltshire Autism Diagnostic Service

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The Disability Action Plan is a comprehensive plan to ensure Aotearoa New Zealand is fully responding to its obligations under the Convention for the Rights of People with Disabilities. The four most important issues that Balance New Zealand advocate for are:

• The need for a comprehensive review of the Mental Health Act
• Ending the practice of seclusion in mental health services
• The need to address the physical health needs of those treated 
• The need to address both overt and covert systemic stigma and abuse 

The Living Well Booklet has been compiled for the information of those who suffer from bipolar disorder and their families and friends.

Be You provides educators with knowledge, tools and resources to create positive, inclusive and responsive learning communities where every child, young person, educator and family is empowered to achieve their best possible mental health.

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Australia

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Beyond Blue acknowledges the Land on which our head office is based has deep connections to peoples and cultures across the Eastern Kulin Nation. As such we acknowledge the Traditional Owners of this area, the Wurundjeri Peoples, and pay our respects to their Elders past and present. As an organisation with national reach, we extend our respect to all Elders and First Nations Peoples across Australia.

• Reconciliation Action Plan
• National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO)
• Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
• Wellmob
• Australian Indigenous HealthInfo Network
• Counselling Online

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Australia

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NewAccess mental health coaching could be right for you if you’re looking for affordable therapy to manage stress and worries. It is free of charge and requires no GP referral. Working one-on-one with a mental health coach over 6 sessions, you’ll learn practical strategies to manage stressors such as:?

• coping with stress and anxiety - including study and work stress or increasing motivation at work
• life changes – moving house, changing jobs, becoming a parent or losing someone close
• sleep or concentration issues 
• natural disasters – recovering from fires and floods
• financial worries.

NewAccess isn’t right for you if you’re in crisis or currently seeing a psychologist or psychiatrist. To find other support options, talk to your GP or visit Get mental health support.

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Australia

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Australia

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Good work helps mental health and wellbeing. It can contribute to your daily activity. Your sense of purpose. Your income. And your social connection. But poor working conditions can harm your mental health and wellbeing.

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Australia

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Time to Change are a growing movement of people changing how we all think and act about mental health problems. Time to Change Bristol Hub is a partnership of local organisations and people who are committed to ending mental health stigma and discrimination. Time to Change Bristol is made up of the city council, Bristol Independent Mental Health Network (BIMHN), Wellbeans Initiative CIC and Rethink Bristol; with support from partners across the city – including employers, unions, universities, police and the NHS.

The Hub actively campaigns against mental health stigma in the Bristol area, delivers campaigning and anti-stigma training, funds anti-stigma work and activities of local individuals. The Time to Change Bristol hub is run by people with lived experience of mental health issues alongside organisations committed to challenging mental health stigma and discrimination. These organisations  form the Bristol Anti Stigma Alliance (BASA), and is hosted as part of Thrive Bristol (which is a wider programme to improve the mental health and wellbeing of everyone in Bristol). The hub has a steering group made up of a wider partnership, with a Time to Change Champions group and hub co-ordinators group ensuring the work of the hub has lived experience of mental health leadership at its heart.

The Bristol Time to Change Hub frequently runs free training sessions for registered Time to Change Community Champions. Being a champion is a flexible and voluntary commitment. You can do what you have time for, and what you’re comfortable doing. Once you’ve become a champion, you’ll have access to Time to Change’s campaign portal and free training.

• Social Contact Training: the aim of this workshop is to develop participants’ skills, knowledge, understanding and confidence in opening up a conversation in everyday life to improve negative attitudes surrounding mental health. After completing this training you should be able to explain what social contact is and how to start conversations with others in everyday life; explain what lived experience is; challenge stereotypes and negative attitudes to mental health; use different ways to end conversations and to ask for help if necessary; use relevant resources on the Time To Change website and establish your own personal boundaries when having conversations.
• Speaking Out Training aims to build the confidence and skills of Time to Change Champions to speak out to an audience about mental health, including their own experience of mental health problems, and why we need to continue to challenge stigma. At the end of the course you will have prepared an outline of what to include about your personal experience when speaking at events about mental health and stigma, have identified some strengths as a public speaker ancd explored ways you can best prepare and protect yourself when speaking out about mental health stigma.
• Resources

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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BIMHN launched a campaign to reinstate a regular bus service for Callington Road Hospital in South Bristol, which serves people with mental health problems. Since First bus terminated the number 36 in March 2015, and Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust withdrew its free bus shortly after, there has been no regular service stopping directly outside the hospital. A number of buses stop near the site, but require users to walk along a main road and through a poorly lit wooded area, which Avon and Somerset Police has actively discouraged people to walk though in low light. The lack of suitable transport to the site, which is a base for inpatient services, as well as the Crisis Service, Assessment and Recovery, and Complex Psychological Intervention, has affected many users, including patients, visitors and staff.

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Fighting for the Crisis Line is the Bristol’s Crisis Line, a 24-hour telephone service that offers support and, if appropriate, immediate care pathways to those experience a mental health crisis, was to close. This was later revised to a ‘service re-design’, where the line remained open, but could only be made use of by people who have been referred to the line by professionals, or for people as part of their previously identified support.

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Shine On is a campaign bringing together people and organisations across South Gloucestershire, Bristol and North Somerset to tackle the issue of suicide and raise awareness of the support available. BIMHN has an active part in this campaign, supporting events and promoting the activities taking place across the local area.

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Anxiety BC is a group of consumers, professionals, parents and caregivers devoted to increasing the public's awareness of and access to reliable resources on anxiety. The site contains a wealth of information to help people learn about and practice effective strategies to manage anxiety on their own, at their own pace.

Contact Person / Email
info@anxietybc.com.

Call (604) 620 0744

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Ashnola at The Crossing is a program to support youth and young adults who need residential programming for substance use concerns. Ashnola at The Crossing is a Provincial Tier 4 program that supports youth and young adults ages 17-24, all genders, who are in need of residential programming for substance use concerns. The program is delivered by the Pacific Community Resources Society in partnership with BCMHSUS.  It is located in Keremeos at The Crossing, a facility provided rent-free by the Central City Foundation. The location is a healing environment for youth and young adults on their path to recovery. Ashnola at The Crossing is a client-centred program with an average length of stay from 3-6 months based on individualized client goals and treatment plans. The program is able to support youth and young adults with concurrent disorders.

Address
3865 Highway 3 Keremeos BC V0X 1N0 Canada

Contact Person / Email
jlowrey@phsa.ca

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The BC Psychosis Program provides unique, highly specialized inpatient services to patients who require treatment for psychosis. The BC Psychosis program is a provincial resource funded by BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services and operated by Vancouver Coastal Health. The program is located at the UBC Hospital, and provides unique, highly specialized inpatient services to patients who require treatment for psychosis. Patients are referred to this program when other treatment approaches have been ineffective or partially effective. Research is an integral part of the program, and patients may be offered the opportunity to participate in a clinical trial or other research project. Most clients stay in the program for an average of 4 to 6 months.

Address
UBC Hospital, Detwiller Pavilion ​2255 Wesbrook Mall Vancouver BC V6T 2A1 Canada

Call 604 822 7546

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British Columbia Schizophrenia Society is a non-profit organization  of people with schizophrenia. BCSSis a province-wide family support system dedicated to supporting each other, educating the public, raising funds for research and advocating for better services for people with schizophrenia and other serious and persistent mental illness.

Address
1100 – 1200 West 73rd Avenue Vancouver, BC V6P 6G5 Canada

Contact Person / Email
prov@bcss.org

Call 604.270.7841

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Burnaby Centre for Mental Health & Addiction provides specialized inpatient treatment services for BC adults (over 19 years) with severe and complex concurrent substance addiction and mental health concerns. They fill a gap in service, meeting the complex needs of people who are homeless or living in unstable housing, who are vulnerable and who are affected by significant physical and mental health issues. This program accepts clients on probation, as well as those using methadone. Services they offer include:

• Consultation
• Assessment
• Stabilization
• Diagnosis
• Treatment
• Education
• Family Support

Address
3405 Willingdon Avenue Burnaby BC V5G 3H4 Canada

Call 604 675 3950

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The Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) is a national charity that helps maintain and improve mental health for all Canadians. As the nation-wide leader and champion for mental health, CMHA promotes the mental health of all and supports the resilience and recovery of people experiencing mental illness.

Address
Suite 905 – 1130 West Pender Street Vancouver, BC V6E 4A4 Canada

Contact Person / Email
info@cmha.bc.ca

Call 604-688-3234

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Correctional Health Services is a broad network of well-established external partnerships with regional health authorities, advocacy organizations and other health care agencies across BC, and is well-positioned to provide this care. This responsibility for BCMHSUS will help to improve the quality and continuity of health care services for clients as they move between correctional centres and the community.

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Forensic Psychiatric Hospital is a secure, 190-bed facility that treats and rehabilitates individuals who have come in conflict with the law and are deemed unfit to stand trial or not criminally responsible due to mental illness. The goal of the program is to restore fitness to attend court proceedings and/or reintegrate patients gradually and safely into the community. The hospital also serves individuals who have been transferred temporarily from correctional facilities to be assessed or receive treatment for a mental illness under the Mental Health Act. The facility consists of 9 clinical units (5 secure, 3 closed and 1 open unit). Located in a peaceful, park-like setting, the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital supports patients with high quality, specialized clinical services, as well as a comprehensive range of vocational and rehabilitative programs.

Address
70 Colony Farm Road Coquitlam BC V3C 5X9 Canada

Call 604 524 7700

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Heartwood Centre for Women is a residential treatment centre for women (including transgender women) who are BC residents aged 19 or older with substance dependence.

Address
4500 Oak Street ​BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre Vancouver BC V6H 3N1 Canada

Contact Person / Email
heartwood@cw.bc.ca

Call 604 875 2424

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The Institute of Families seeks to create and promote caring experiences and greater outcomes for child and youth mental health.  They strive to build FamilySmart™ practice to achieve better mental health for this generation and generations of the future.

Address
Suite 1000 - 355 Burrard St, Vancouver, BC V6C 2G8 Canada

Contact Person / Email
info@familysmart.ca

Call 604 878 3400

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The Jessie’s Legacy Eating Disorders Prevention Program is the Provincial leader for the annual Provincial Eating Disorders Awareness (PEDAW) campaign with various initiatives taking place year round. Jessie's Legacy collaborates with the Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre and a group of enthusiasts including teachers, counsellors, clinicians, peer support workers from the Eating Disorders community in supporting initiatives around BC.

"Love our Bodies, Love Ourselves!" is a movement launched by the BC Provincial Eating Disorders Awareness Campaign (PEDAW) to bring awareness to the public in preventing disordered eating and eating disorders.

Address
1111 Lonsdale Avenue North Vancouver, British Columbia Canada

Contact Person / Email
jessieslegacy@familyservices.bc.ca

Call +1 604-988-5281

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Provincial Substance Use Treatment Program includes 30 provincial residential substance use treatments beds. BCMHSUS provides residential substance use treatment programs that provides structured, supportive residential treatment services for individuals. Clients are 19 years of age or older and have a primary concern of substance use and show patterns of substance use that have not been successfully addressed at the community level. The program is 90 days with 6-12 months of aftercare support. Services are contracted to Phoenix Society in Surrey and Cedars at Cobble Hill on Vancouver Island. Twenty of the beds are provided through the Phoenix Society. Cedars at Cobble Hill is providing the other 10 beds.   

Contact Person / Email
jlowrey@phsa.ca

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Rehabilitation & Recovery Program offers continued treatment and support services to those who have completed treatment at the Burnaby or Heartwood Centres and are transitioning to their home communities. It is a provincial resource providing specialized Tier 4 treatment services for BC adults (19 years of age or older) who have completed treatment at the Burnaby Centre for Mental Health and Addiction or the Heartwood Centre for Women who may benefit from continued treatment and additional support services as they transition back to their home communities. Clients access this program on a voluntary basis and receive the skills and support necessary to achieve a successful return and integration into their home communities.

Address
2601 Lougheed Hwy Coquitlam BC V3C 4J2 Canada

Call 604 520 3610

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Genetic Counselling (The Adapt Clinic) offers free genetic counselling to individuals, and their families, who live with a psychiatric diagnosis. This service can help individuals with mental health disorders and their family members better understand the cause and potential risks for you, your children or other family members.

Call 604 875 2726

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The Mood Disorders Association of BC (MDABC) is a nonprofit organization that provides treatment, support, education, and hope of recovery for people living with a mood disorder. MDABC has recently mergerd with Lookout Society

Address
Suite 480 - 789 West Pender Street Vancouver, BC V6C 1H2, Canada

Contact Person / Email
info@mdabc.net

Call 1 604 873 0103

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The Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research (CISUR) is a network of individuals and groups dedicated to the study of substance use and addiction in support of community-wide efforts to promote health and reduce harm. Our research is used to inform a broad range of projects, reports, publications and initiatives aimed at providing all people in BC and beyond with access to happier, healthier lives, whether using substances or not. Their work is based on our guiding principles of collaborative relationships, independent research, ethics, social equity and justice, reducing risk and increasing protections, harm reduction and informed public debate

Address
Technology Enterprise Facility Room 273 2300 McKenzie Ave Victoria, BC V8P 5C2 Canada

Contact Person / Email
carbc@uvic.ca

Call 250 472 5445

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Caminar Avenida Apartments provides supportive housing opportunities for people with disabilities who have experienced homelessness. In collaborative partnership with the Butte County Department of Behavioral Health, HUD and Tri Counties Bank.  Caminar’s Avenida Apartments offers affordable, supportive and attractive housing for people with disabilities who have experienced homelessness. Featuring fourteen housing units, Avenida Apartments are designed for people with a disability who have experienced homelessness. The complex has a community room for groups and recreational gatherings, laundry, maintained landscaped areas and a community garden.  Avenidas Apartments has a full time live-in property manager in addition to case management and support services provided by Butte County Department of Behavioral Health.  Employment opportunities are also onsite to assist residents in their recovery process to become productive members of the community. By encompassing a vocational training approach, providing employment opportunities onsite (including our social enterprise bike shop facility, along with grounds maintenance and janitorial services vocational opportunities), Avenida Apartments truly promotes independent living and self-sufficiency to its residents. The model fits perfectly with the Caminar Butte County Region’s goal of building community and enhancing lives for people with disabilities. 

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Caminar's Case Management programs assist individuals in meeting their basic needs while fostering empowerment, self-determination, and personal growth.  Staff collaborate with each client to create a personalized recovery plan by focusing on life skills. Caminar's intensive case management provides a range of services to every client, from our most fragile clients in our Full Service Partnership (FSP) to our most independent clients in the Wellness and Recovery Action Plan Program (WRAPP) and everything in between. Full Service Partnership (FSP) provides services to San Mateo County's most  fragile individuals and integrates streamlined, holistic health care utilizing the best-practice model of assertive community treatment.  The team includes the added benefit of medical clinic services and a 24-hour on-call emergency response service.

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Caminar's Comprehensive Case Management (CCM) program provides an enhanced case management service to Solano County residents who are mentally ill.  Unlike traditional case management programs, CCM has an embedded Registered Nurse to help address the numerous medical and medication issues that so many of our clients struggle with, and thus making the service enhanced. The CCM program provides service to 120 clients and in addition to the RN, the program is staffed with a dedicated Program Director, 4 Case Managers, and a dedicated program Admin Assistant.  Services are rendered throughout the entire county and referrals must be approved by Solano County Mental Health.

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Family and Children’s Services of Silicon Valley (FCS) is a strategic partnership that brings together two Bay Area behavioral health organizations with a shared commitment. They provide a path to recovery we can strengthen communities and empower individuals to live independently, self-sufficiently, and with pride. FCS provides a wide variety of services for children, teens, and adults.  They also recognize that each individual comes to them with unique needs and experiences and partner together to achieve individual goals and to empower clients to transform their lives.

To learn more about FCS's programs and how to access services, please visit FCServices.org or call 408.292.9353 or .

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Friendship Circle (FC)  directly assists individuals in their quest to develop the skills required to enhance their social lives through building and maintaining a circle of compatible friends.  Founded on the belief that compatibility should be based on the commonality and camaraderie that arises from sharing mutual abilities, interests, and concerns,  Friendship Circle is a social recreational program of Caminar designed to assist individuals with a developmental disability to acquire the skills necessary to enhance  their social life by developing and maintaining a circle of compatible friends.  In all cases, the emphasis of the program is on supporting the movement toward self-determination, responsibility, and independence with respect to meeting their own social needs.  This is a critical element and the one which sets this program apart from  other leisure/social programs.  Friendship Circle is founded on the belief that compatibility should not be based on a common diagnosis of developmental disability, but  rather on the commonality and comradely which arises from sharing mutual abilities, interest and concerns.  The ultimate goal is to teach the social skills necessary for  individuals to build meaningful and rewarding relationships with peers and other people in the community who share common interests.

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Full Service Partnership (FSP) for Adults and Older Adults is a Mental Health Service Act [MHSA] funded intensive case management program. FSP’s are intended to provide services to California’s most vulnerable mental ill consumers. Case loads are smaller than traditional case management programs so that the staff can have more direct service time to spend with these consumers. We started serving clients in October 2010. The program is staffed by 4 case managers, 2 RNs, 1 assistant case manager, 1 Admin Assistant, 1 Program Director and 16 hours a week of psychiatry. The program serves 44 clients.

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The Caminar Solano County Gateway program provides 30-day transitional housing support services and case management to individuals who are making the transition to higher levels of independent living. The community-based program also assists individuals in setting realistic goals and working towards achieving them.

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HOME is a program aiming to meet the needs of the homeless mentally ill in Solano County by connecting them with support services. They provide supportive and stabilizing services to those experiencing situational homelessness and are facing a housing, health care, financial, or psychiatric crisis. Some services include:

• Assisting people in emergency shelter
• Finding permanent housing
• Providing case management services, and
• Connecting people with job readiness services through our Jobs Plus program.

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Jobs Plus is a supported employment program that provides individualized training, assistance, and support to enable individuals to be successful in competitive employment.  An on-site Job Coach provides long term assistance and support to the employee and employer at each job site, working with the new employee and teaching him/her the duties and responsibilities of the job.  As the employee masters these newly learned abilities through goal-oriented skills training, the support services are designed to gradually decrease accordingly.  The Jobs Plus staff is even available to provide technical assistance to the employer to help foster an empowering, productive work environment.

One aspect of Jobs Plus utilizes Personal Vocation Social Adjustment Services (PVSA) to provide training in appropriate work-related behaviors.  This is designed to maximize an individual’s independent functioning by eliminating identified barriers to employment. Another service within Jobs Plus is our Situational Assessments (SA) which assesses a person’s employment skills.  This assessment tool assists with determining an individual’s job interests, abilities, and potential barriers to employment.  The result of the assessment is a comprehensive and objective report that is focused on providing accurate goal-oriented direction both for the client and for the Department of Rehabilitation in the quest to assist clients with achieving successful employment.

Contact Person / Email
info@caminar.org.

Call 530 343 4421

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Laurel Creek is a short-term crisis residential treatment facility that is licensed by the California Department of Social Services and certified by the Department of Health Care Services.  Laurel Creek provides a warm, home-like environment where people can regain the skills necessary to return to independent living. The program offers an array of personalized rehabilitation services including:

• Short-term residential treatment
• Rehabilitation services for re-entry into the community
• Groups that offer support and education
• Treatment goal planning
• Educational planning
• Assistance in activities of daily living
• Community resource tours

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Laurel Gardens is an innovative supported independent living home, developed in partnership with Resources for Community Development and the Housing and Urban Development Agency, provides permanent independent housing for low-income individuals with disabilities. Caminar provides personalized rehabilitation and support services to individuals living at Laurel Gardens who have mental health conditions.

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The medication clinic is part of the FSP stream of services and also funded by MHSA. There are two medication clinics for this program (one located in our Vallejo office and one located in our Fairfield office.)  The clinic is staffed by two registered nurses and two psychiatrists.  Services are provided in the office or field based. The psychiatrist will be managing the prescribed services for these client’s psychotropic medications and the RNs will be assisting in the medication management and providing other medical services to program participants in the FSP. 

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The staff at the Medication Clinic in San Mateo works closely with clients to design medication plans that best suit each person’s individual needs.   The team of psychiatrists, nurses and licensed psychiatric technicians promote empowerment in medication choices.  They offer information and education, assist clients in identifying personal pros and cons, discuss alternative and holistic health practices and focus on physical health as well as mental health. The medical staff works closely with case management and counseling teams to create coordinated and seamless services, enhancing recovery outcomes for its patients. Their Bridges to Wellness (BTW) program integrates primary and behavioral health care services while reducing preventable medical conditions and improving health outcomes.  

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New Ventures program provides personalized rehabilitation services to people who need support while they develop and work towards accomplishing their life goals.  Services are provided in the community and based upon an individualized treatment plan that focuses on strengths and abilities.  The program provides supported housing to help individuals keep and maintain the housing option of their choice, with some subsidized housing opportunities available.  New Ventures collaborates with Caminar’s Supported Education and Jobs Plus programs to encourage the achievement of vocational and educational goals.

Olivos is an innovative, well organized model that closes the treatment gap. Olivosare leaders in providing services for people with mental, physical and developmental disabilities. They work with individuals in various stages of recovery -- from those with highly acute serious mental illness, to those dealing with the life-long effects of trauma, to those seeking to improve their mental health and wellness and strive to reach their full potential.

Address
1660 South Amphlett, Suite 111 San Mateo, CA 94403 USA

Contact Person / Email
info@caminarolivos.org

Call 415 264 8186

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Olivos is Caminar’s private-pay psychiatric and psychosocial program which utilizes innovative, evidence-based practices to improve clients’ overall health and wellness.  A psychologist, psychiatrist, care manager, registered nurse, outpatient therapist, job developer, educator and peer specialist compose the team who collaborate to provide a full range of services.  Olivos provides comprehensive concierge-level care that can be tailored to fit diverse needs, ranging from psychiatric emergencies to life coaching.  Olivos works with individuals and their support systems to help build and sustain the lives they desire with direction and purpose while managing their health.Costs and charges are based on the intensity of care and individual service plans. 

Contact Person / Email
info@caminarOLIVOS.org.

Call 650 372 4080

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Pro-Touch isa social enterprise designed and established for people who receive services from Butte County Department of Behavioral Health that trains individuals who are entering the workforce for the first time or have not had a job in several years.  Pro-Touch is not only a vocational training, but also a small business that provides low cost janitorial and landscape services for local businesses and people on a limited income.  All profits from both Pro-Touch and Sensible Cyclery go back into the programs, creating a double bottom line and giving customers a sense of making a social impact.

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Recovery, Empowerment And Community Housing (REACH) serves San Mateo's severely mentally ill individuals but  is a step down from FSP.  REACH is an innovative and highly successful program that provides services to people who benefit from a high level of assistance to achieve their life goals.  REACH pioneered hiring peer support staff to act as recovery role models to REACH participants, most of who live in their own apartments and participate in their community.  This program also has medical clinic services and a 24-hour on-call emergency response service.

Resource Connect Solano streamlines access to life-changing housing and supportive resources for people in Solano County who are experiencing or at-risk of homelessness. Individuals and families receive assessment and referral services to identify housing needs and create linkages to available services. Using the Coordinated Entry System, we identify and facilitate the most appropriate response to each individual’s immediate and long-term housing needs. People who have been homeless the longest and are the most vulnerable receive priority access to scarce permanent housing resources.

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Contact Person / Email
RCS@caminar.org

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Caminar San Mateo Residential Treatment Program encourages the return to independent living through supportive communities. Each of Caminar’s three San Mateo County residential treatment programs has been thoughtfully created to provide a warm, caring, and inviting environment for its residents—a true home environment—not just a “residential facility. They provide a fostering home environment helps residents receiving treatment thrive through a therapeutic community that empowers the individual’s return to independent living.

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Caminar's Sensible Cyclery has been established to sell quality reconditioned bicycles at an affordable price.  Bikes are donated from a variety of sources within the community.  Then, the residents of Avenida Apartments, along with vocational trainees who receive services from Butte County Department of Behavioral Health, perform the important tasks associated with overhauling, repairing, tuning, and getting the donated bikes ready for resale.  The mission of Sensible Cyclery is to recondition and sell quality used bicycles at an affordable price, and by being in business, to provide meaningful vocational opportunities that help our employees reach their fullest potential.  

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Caminar Supported Education Program offered at College of San Mateo (a community college) provides a full array state-of-the-art support services to students with disabilities including peer support, specialized classes, educational accommodations and on-campus counseling and support. Students with all types of disabilities including mental health conditions are completing classes, achieving certificates and going on to four-year universities.  This model program also has a special team that works with Transition Age Youth.  This team offers a tailor-made curriculum geared to increasing personal assets in young adults that are found to improve quality of life, reduce risk factors and give them the basic skills they need to go on to further studies and educational goals. Caminar Supported Educational Program was selected as a model program site in a research study by Boston University, highlighting its specialized support services aiding in educational success for students with disabilities.

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Caminar's Supported Housing program in San Mateo assists clients in accessing federal housing subsidy programs such as Shelter Plus Care and Section 8, and when subsidized programs aren't an option, we work with local property owners to find our clients low-cost, permanent housing.  Almost 100% of our Supported Housing clients have kept their residences for at least one year.  That is one whole year they may have otherwise been on the streets without a place to call home or without a place to start their recovery.

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The Wellness and Recovery Center (WRC) is a MHSA funded program through the prevention and early intervention service dollars and began services on December 1st, 2010.  The Wellness and Recovery Center is a peer run drop-in center for individuals with a known or suspected mental illness, located adjacent to Caminar’s medication clinic and case management services. The center provides an array of services meant to promote wellness and ongoing recovery from mental health disorders.  WRC staff, which consist of peer counselors as well as a program coordinator and assistant case manager, provide assistance and encouragement to clients for their total wellness. They assist in planning and implementing health and wellness education and support groups. They also provide immediate solutions to emergency problems by coordinating with local police and medical emergency units.  The Wellness and Recovery Center provides:

• Wellness and Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) Groups
• Check-in and Process Support Groups       
• Dual Recovery Support Group (DRA)
• Art Groups (expressive, creative, storytelling art)
• Employment Preparedness Groups by Jobs Plus
• Life Skills Educational Group
• Current Events Discussion Group
• Exercise/Zumba Group
• Library visits
• Social Outings (includes visiting local museums, BBQ at the park, movies, bowling, miniature golf, etc.)

Address
915 Tuolumne Street in Vallejo, CA USA

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Wellness, Recovery, and Partnership Program (WRAPP) is a program specifically designed to enhance full recovery and community integration for independent clients.  While in most programs, people who have achieved a high degree of recovery are often given few—if any—services, this program provides focused attention and encouragement to individuals who have a lot of success going on in their lives.  It concentrates on the development of natural supports and accessing self-help opportunities.  Participants develop Wellness Recovery Action Plans (Mary Ellen Copeland’s relapse prevention and wellness tool) and begin to gain confidence in their ability to reach for the stars—a career, meaningful relationships, a community of friends.

Caminar’s Young Adult Independent Living (YAIL) program offers support for young adults in San Mateo County as they transition into adulthood and seek recovery from mental health and/or substance use issues. The YAIL team strives to empower young people to build full, productive, and independent lives in the community. YAIL offers community-based and on-site programs. All participants have a case manager, create individual goals and action plans, and may access group sessions, social activities, and support to build independent living skills.

Contact Person / Email
YAIL@caminar.org

Call 650 367 9610

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The Cape Town International Kite Festival brings together people from around the world in a celebration of kiting and creativity, to generate funds for Cape Mental Health, raises awareness of the importance of mental health and highlights the link between physical and mental well-being.

Address
22 Ivy Street, Observatory South Africa

Contact Person / Email
info@cmh.org.za

Call + 27 (21) 447 9040

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Integrated Social work services are offered throughout the Cape Town area. These services include awareness raising and prevention, early intervention, statutory services (as determined by the Mental Health Care act of 2002) and reintegration services to individuals, groups and at community level.

• Individual counselling services:improve knowledge and understanding and assist with access to services, resources and opportunities; equip families with the skills necessary to cope with a family member who has a mental disability; develop skills to cope with the stresses of daily life; improve insight and promote responsible self-reliant behaviour; help families cope with challenging behaviour more effectively; and disability Grant Administration for people with mental disabilities.
• Group work services: life skills training with people with mental disabilities to enable them to accept themselves, relate to others positively and solve problems independently; carers support groups to equip parents and carers with knowledge and skills to respond appropriately to the challenges of their children and people with mental disabilities; short-term groups focusing either on sexuality and lifeskills, substance abuse and other social skills needed
• Community Work services: wellness Events to enhance mental health of the community, clients & caregivers; information tables, exhibitions and mental health presentations to educate the public about mental health and the services of Cape Mental Health; rural Outreach – Capacity building of relevant role-players in the mental health field with respect to mental health issues in rural communities; capacity building of SAPS officials with respect to mental health issues; schools Programme to empower educators and learners to identify and deal with mental health problems and access services where necessary

Most of these services are offered free or at a nominal cost, and we depend on concerned individuals and businesses for the funds we need to continue. 
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The Employee Assistance Programme works with Companies to strengthen staff's ability to cope with the challenges of modern life, enhances work-place well-being, promotes a work/life balance, and improves productivity. Partnering your EAP strategy with Cape Mental Health makes the following services easily accessible – at affordable rates:

• A skilled team of registered professionals
• Communication in English, Afrikaans and Xhosa
• Telephonic and on-site/off-site availability
• Individual & family sessions on an appointment basis
• Trauma intervention at short notice
• Confidential assessments & counselling
• Treatment planning and referrals
• Health information & wellness education
• Short-term problem solving / facilitating change
• Follow-up & support
• Managerial/staff training to assist employees that are having life challenges
• The back-up of a registered, well-resourced organisation

This programme addresses family problems such as marital conflict, divorce, abuse, illness or death; relationship problems; financial difficulties; alcohol/drug dependence or a gambling addiction; crises in the home; psychological issues such as depression and anxiety; health problems; and other personal concerns which may adversely affect employee ability and job performance. Although EAP should not be seen as a refuge for disciplinary hearings, employers are expected to provide assistance to employees before they proceed with disciplinary procedures. Cape Mental Health runs awareness, education, counselling and training programmes aimed at helping people enjoy good mental health. Most of these programmes and services are offered free of charge.

Contact Person / Email
Vimla@cmh.org.

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Fountain House is a community based rehabilitation centre that plays a vital role in the lives of people living with psychiatric disabilities. It creates opportunities for them to begin the journey of recovery, find meaning in life and actively contribute to the social and economic wellbeing of each other and their families. The aim is to enable persons living with psychiatric disabilities to ultimately become reintegrated into society and the workplace. This is achieved through participation and training in four work units at the centre: administration, catering, a paper making workshop, and the employment/communications unit. Persons attending Fountain House benefit from:

• A work-ordered day programme, where they receive "on-the-job" training in a variety of skills through their involvement in the activities of the work units at the centre
• Exposure to employment and/or income generating opportunities, such as the Transitional Employment Programme (TEP), supported employment opportunities, independent work placements, learnerships and further education and training;
• Training in computer and internet skills, assistance with CV creation, development of interview skills, career guidance, education about employment rights and micro business training including business plan preparation
• Greater insight into their psychiatric disabilities
• Poverty alleviation initiatives including balanced, nutritional meals at a low cost and opportunities to buy clothing at a reduced rate;
• Social and recreational programmes to enhance social competencies and social networks.  This is done through monthly social events, birthday parties, a varied afternoon programme and an annual holiday.

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Cape Mental Health is committed to creating awareness and improving public attitudes towards those with mental disabilities, as well as reducing the stigma associated with these disabilities. Information about intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and mental health is provided to the broader community through talks and presentations. We hold Open Days, exhibitions and run information tables at various events to promote awareness of the services we offer.

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Kimber House is an opportunity for people with psychosocial disabilities to live independently, while still being able to depend on the support, assistance and protection of a more structured environment. Kimber House is a Supported Accommodation Programme, providing a safe, secure, comfortable, supportive and affordable home environment to 11 adults with a psychiatric disability. Their aim is to:

• Build capacity through participation in menu planning, budgeting, grocery shopping, cooking, cleaning and conflict resolution among the residents.
• Encourage shared responsibility in decision-making, through participation in house meetings, annual policy reviews & strategic planning and the selection of new residents.
• Increase social involvement through organised house events, social & recreational activities in the community, and access to the social and recreational programme at Fountain House.
• Provide continuous support & individual case management for each member, participation in goal setting and life skill activities at Fountain House.
• Provide access to educational & training activities at Fountain House, to increase knowledge & skill of members. 

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Higher functioning trainees from Training Workshops Unlimited and members from Fountain House are prepared for the open labour market via learnership opportunities and assistance with finding suitable employment. The focus is on the individual's ability. Learners are supported by their allocated job coaches during theoretic activities, practical placements and during employment. The programme embodies:

• Securing opportunities for those able to develop and progress beyond workshop level.
• Preparation training for open labour market employment.
• Accredited Career Skills Training, including Hygiene and Cleaning (NQF Level 1) and Business Administration (NQF Level 2).
• HIV/AIDS and Sexuality Education.
• Health and Safety Training in the workplace.
• Life Skills training with emphasis on building self esteem and confidence in the workplace environment and in social settings.
• Assessments on all training modules and building of Portfolios of Evidence.
• Practical Work Placements during skills training programmes and Learnerships.
• Job Coaching by skilled and experienced staff.
• Counseling.
• Placement in the Open Labour Market and ongoing support and follow–up by Job Coaches.
• Employer Education and de-stigmatization of persons with disability within the workplace.

MindMatters is a Comprehensive School Mental Health Promotion Project that is being implemented with the learners of Ocean View and Zeekoevlei Secondary Schools.Although based on the Australian school mental health programme, MindMatters has been adapted to address social issues such as poverty, child abuse and neglect, substance abuse, teenage pregnancy etc. that affect youth in South Africa. Regular surveys are conducted with all the learners to determine their psycho-social needs. Once a month, the Social Worker implements the MindMatters Toolkit in Grades 8-11, highlighting issues identified in the surveys. Follow up lessons are conducted by Life Orientation teachers, who incorporate the Toolkit information into their sessions. Once a month, workshops and awareness sessions are conducted with the grade 12 learners, focussing on the issues identified in the surveys. These classroom based activities are designed to:

• Create an environment conducive to promoting psycho-social competence and well-being
• Influence curriculum teaching and learning
• Influence the school ethos and environment
• Provide a class based interactive mental health education programme

The programme also aims to establish partnerships and services which will link the school to resources that will best support the learners. Individual Counselling Services are offered to learners who need confidential face to face counselling. The social worker will refer learners to other organisations in the community should a need arise. 

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Mental Health Awareness Month focuses on more than just the absence of mental illness; but rather all the factors which contribute to mental wellbeing and promote resilience to stress, anxiety and other negative influences. Details for the annual campaign become available closer to October when it occurs.

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Psychiatric Disability Awareness Month focuses on the accomplishments, challenges and human rights issues of people with a Psychiatric Disability. Psychiatric Disability Awareness Month is held annually in July.

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The Rainbow Foundation comprises 25 psychosocial rehabilitation groups in the Cape Metro area for persons with a psychiatric disability. Groups meet weekly in community facilities such as civic centres, library halls, clinics and cultural centres, for mutual social support and opportunities for recreation, skills development, participation in income-generating projects, temporary employment opportunities and the development of support networks. They monitor individuals' mental state and provide support for families through the presentation of Family Workshops. Meetings with group leaders are held monthly, and we liaise regularly with role players within the mental health field and the disability sector to provide a valuable and much needed service to people living with psychiatric disability.

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CMH povides tailor-made programme designed to address issues of mental health in schools. The programme aims to empower educators and learners to identify and deal with mental health problems and access services where necessary. Learners and educators are taught to identify symptoms of mental distress and develop coping skills and resources so that they can enjoy good mental health.

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Advise and support program is a number of CARe Europe Consultancy Opportunities From the network of CARe Europe, we can offer advice and support in different fields (e.g. developing a new community based service, developing a service focusing on recovery, deinstitutionalising hospital services, developing a social enterprise, advocacy and human rights initiatives, developing peer expertise and peer support, developing a proposal for our partnership program and developing a proposal for a training program). Consultancy and advice can be given by email or Skype. Experts are also willing to visit your organisation and to offer personal advice on the spot. In this case only the expenses for travel and accommodation have to be covered.

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CARe Europe Partnership Programme mobilizes and strengthens the network of professionals, users and organizations working for the transition of mental health and social services in line with the UN CRPD. The growing network we decided to open a new Partnership Program in order to connect Western European service providers with their Eastern European or Central Asian partners. The aim of the Partnership Programme is to initiate long term co-operation combined with support and mutual learning between Western European service providers and Eastern European or Central Asian organizations. CARe Europe takes the position of mediator between the potential partner organizations as a third partner. The key issues we consider when try to find partner organizations:

• Relevance: partners working on the same field, representing the same values and principles
• Reliability: partners reliable, registered NGOs, with a good reputation in their local environment
• Contribution: partners can contribute to this co-operation (i.e. multiple forms of mutual contribution, like advice, learning experiences and financial support)
• Sustainability: the co-operation strengthen both organizations contributing to their sustainability

CARe Europe is seeking for active organizations that are willing to participate in our Partnership Programme from each region. 

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CARe Europe offers a variety of workshops and training opportunities. They provide workshops on introduction to the recovery model, working on social inclusion (community participation and support), introduction to the model of ‘expert-by-experience’ and peer support, social enterprises, introduction to the CARe model and developing peer expertise and peer support groups

• Training in the CARe methodology: the CARe methodology is an evidence-based professional way of effectively supporting persons with mental health problems in their recovery process. It is based on the principles of presence, recovery and empowerment. In the basic training programme, professionals learn how to apply the principles in a systematic way. 
• Training in the Strengths model: the Strengths model was developed by Charley Rapp and Rick Goscha from Kansas University in the U.S. The approach focuses on the strengths of the person and of the community. It supports personal recovery and participation.
• Train-the-trainer programmes: CARe Europe offers train-the-trainer programmes for persons who want to become a trainer in either the CARe model or the Strengths model.

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Community Support project is a project to develop new knowledge for professionals about effective components of community support programmes. The focus was to increase empowerment and self-support of persons with psychiatric and other disabilities. The specific aims of the project were to develop new knowledge about effective components of community support programmes and professional intervention, to transfer this knowledge to professionals of social and mental health services in the three countries, and to teachers from the different universities and professional members of CARe Europe, to transfer this knowledge into teaching materials which can be used in bachelor and master programmes at the universities in the different countries and to increase mobility of lecturers, trainers, students and professors across Europe.

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The partnership programme establishes partnerships between organisations working in the field of community based services and social inclusion throughout Europe and Central Asia. CARe Europe provides, together with its international partners, support to write the proposal and to find a suitable partner. For new organisations to be admitted to the programme, CARe Europe will carefully check credentials. The key criteria we consider to couple organizations as partners

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CAMH's Addiction Services offers specialized treatment options to meet the unique needs of all CAMH clients with drug, alcohol, gambling or other addiction issues. Taking into consideration the different treatment needs of the communities we serve, the Addictions Program offers a range of services to meet those needs.  

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CAMH’s Toronto Adult Neurodevelopmental Services provides services to individuals aged 16 to 60 who have an intellectual disability with mental health concerns and/or severe challenging behaviours or Autism Spectrum Disorder.  The offer highly specialized interprofessional time-limited assessments and treatments to clients, their families and care providers. The goal is to support the individual to live in the community during and after treatment. The new name reflects the variety of neurodevelopmental challenges faced by the evolving client population. Clinics/Pathways include:

• Psychiatric Consultation Clinic – provides assessment and recommendations to referring physicians.
• Medication Consultation Clinic – provides medication only consultation.
• High Functioning Autism Pathway – provides assessment, and limited group treatment
• Inter-professional Assessment and Treatment Pathway – provides assessment and treatment
• Intensive Intervention Pathway – provides assessment and treatment
• Brief Intervention Unit – Inpatient Pathway –provides interprofessional assessment and intervention.  The duration of this service is 4-8 weeks in length.  The pathway to the Brief Intervention Inpatient Unit is through the Toronto Adult Neurodevelopmental Services.

Address
1001 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON. M6J 1H4 Canada

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Best Practice Spotlight Organization (BPSO is an organisation that works on the implementation, evaluation and knowledge translation of established Best Practice Guidelines. Best Practice Guidelines and recommendations that are implementing were selected based on an alignment with CAMH’s strategic priorities, values, as well as short and longer term clinical needs.  These Guidelines were implemented through our BPSO Champions team as well as pilot testing on individual units:

• Client Centred Care &Supporting and Strengthening Families through Expected and Unexpected Life Events
• Assessment and Care for Adults at Risk for Suicidal Ideation and Behaviour
• Enhancing Healthy Adolescent Development
• Integrating Smoking Cessation into Daily Nursing Practice
• Assessment and Management of Pain
• Embracing Cultural Diversity in Healthcare: Developing Cultural Competency
• Preventing and Managing Violence in the Workplace

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CAMH's Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Clinic offers group treatment providing training in Dialectical Behavior Treatment (DBT) to help people who have BPD make positive changes in their lives. The clinic is currently offering 24 week skills groups. This treatment is 24-week groups (two hours, once weekly) that provides training in Dialectical Behavior Treatment (DBT) to help people who have BPD make positive changes in their lives.  To be eligible for this treatment you must have a therapist in the community who you are seeing at a minimum every few weeks, who agrees to provide support to you during the group treatment.  Individuals first attend an assessment meeting to confirm the group treatment will be helpful for their individual needs. 

The DBT Skills Group is like taking a course in school. Every week you will start by reviewing homework from the last week, and then you will learn about new skills. Four main modules will be taught:

• Mindfulness: how to focus your attention on the present moment
• Interpersonal Effectiveness: how to get what you want from people, in a way that makes them want to give it to you 
• Distress Tolerance: how to survive crises and get through really painful moments, without making them worse 
• Emotion Regulation: how to get more control over your emotions, and how to get more positive and less negative emotions in your life 

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CAMH is one of the largest hospitals in North America for people with mental illness. We are an acknowledged world leader in brain science. Each year, we provide exceptional care for more than 28,000 patients and respond to 500,000 outpatient visits. We inspire change in the mental health field through the professionals we train, the knowledge we share, and in the modern facilities we are building: embedded in the community and open to the world.

Address
100 Stokes Street, 5th Floor Toronto, ON M6J 1H4 Canada

Contact Person / Email
foundation@camh.ca

Call 1 800 414 0471

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The Child, Youth and Emerging Adult Service is a professional health care team includes psychiatrists, nurses, psychologists, social workers, child and youth workers, therapists and others that works with and welcome clients from all backgrounds and cultures. In addition to our clinical services, we are involved in research, education, prevention and health promotion for child and youth mental health and addictions. The Child, Youth and Family Service is committed to client-centred care, providing intensive and specialized services for young people with mental health and/or addiction problems. they provide comprehensive assessments, medication consultations, individual and family therapy, specialized treatment groups for children and youth who have problems with mental health, substance use and/or other addictions, day treatment and school programs, parenting programs offering information, education and support, prevention services, including group programs in the community, as well as information and education sessions and consultation on diagnostic and treatment issues for primary care physicians and other health care professionals. The offer several outpatient services, each staffed by a team of health care professionals. They are:

• Youth Justice Clinic
• Better Behaviours Service
• Mood and Anxiety Disorders Service
• Psychiatric Consultation Service
• Psychotic Disorders Service
• Substance Abuse Program for Afro-Canadian & Caribbean Youth (SAPACCY)
• Youth Addiction & Concurrent Disorders Service

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The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health supports a continuum of clinical outreach services throughout the province, with a focus on underserved northern and / or rural communities. There are three integrated components of this clinical outreach service including fly-in and drive-in psychiatry services; telemental health and; clinical capacity building for primary care providers. They have worked with our regional partners to integrate these services. There objectives are to increase access to mental health care, contribute to improved health system integration, provide best quality and continuity of care for patients and build local collaboration and capacity Other CAMH outreach services include: 

• Telemental health
• Integrated Collaborative Care
• E-consults
• ECHO Ontario Mental Health. 

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The Complex Mental Illness Service focuses on clients with serious and persistent mental illness, including schizophrenia and mood disorders. The program includes inpatient, acute/crisis, rehabilitation, outpatient, partial hospital and forensic services.

• Community Treatment Order (CTO) Coordination
• Downtown Central Clinics
• Downtown East Clinics
• Downtown West Clinics
• Early Psychosis Unit
• ENCORE
• Focus on Youth Psychosis Prevention (FYPP) Clinic
• General Psychiatric Unit (GPU)
• Inpatient Care Schizophrenia
• Integrated Rehab Unit (1-4)
• Medication Assessment Program for Schizophrenia (MAPS)
• Mental Health and Metabolism Clinic
• Partial Hospital Program
• Acute Care Unit B
• School Program – TDSB High School (TDSS Classroom)
• Shared Care Outreach
• Adult Neurodevelopmental Services

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CAMH's 24/7 Psychiatric Emergency Department provides 24 hour/7 days per week emergency assessment and treatment for adults with mental health and substance use issues.It:

• Provides extended observation, assessment and treatment services to adults assessed in the Emergency Service or those who are awaiting an inpatient bed.
• Works collaboratively with other hospital emergency and community mental health services to achieve client-centred care.

Address
250 College Street, Toronto, Ontario Canada

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CAMH provides a variety of programs and services for families of people with mental health and/or substance use disorders. Unless indicated otherwise, these services are open to families beyond CAMH. These include:

• Support Groups for Families:  a number of support and education groups for families at our various sites, tailored to the nature of the loved one’s illness.
• Family Centre: Family Resource Centre within the Office of Family Engagement to find information about mental health and addiction, important links to the hospital and the community, borrow books, use a computer, relax and let children play in a safe space. 
• Events of interest to Families: CAMH’s Calendar of Events includes events of special interest to families and friends. CAMH’s Education Program provides opportunities for families to learn more about mental illness and addictions.
• Education Program: CAMH’s Education Program provides opportunities for families to learn more about mental illness and addictions, such as the Mental Health 101 online education series.
• Information and booklets for clients, families and friends

Contact Person / Email
familyengagement@camh.ca

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This is a new full-spectrum forensic psychiatry third-party referral clinic offered at CAMH within the Work Stress and Health program.  It is a multidisciplinary clinic, drawing on the expertise of forensic psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers. The types of forensic psychiatry assessments that will be carried out include violence Risk Assessments (general, sexual, domestic, stalking, threat and workplace), psychopathy Assessments, malingering Assessments, criminal Responsibility Assessments, pre-sentence/Disposition Assessments, dangerous Offender and Long-term Offender Assessments, capacity Assessments (Professional Misconduct, Carry Firearm, etc.) and civil Assessments (Fitness for Duty, Disability Evaluations, etc.). The Psycholegal Clinic is only able to accept third party psycholegal assessment requests. ms. 

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CAMH's Geriatric Mental Health Services (GMHS) is dedicated to the provision of specialized, interprofessional assessment, treatment, consultation and follow-up services to older persons with mental health concerns, with or without addiction issues. The service has both outpatient and inpatient departments.

• Inpatient Services: the focus of Inpatient Services is acute stabilization of symptoms and active treatment utilizing interprofessional approaches that integrate mental health and addictions with geriatric perspectives. There are two Geriatric Admission Units, GAU-A and GAU-B, located in the Intergenerational Wellness Centre with a total of 48 inpatient beds: GAU-A (2nd floor) is a 23-bed unit and GAU-B (3rd floor) has 25 beds. Both floors have a mix of acute and medium-stay clients. Client who require an admission to an inpatient bed are generally triaged through our Central Intake Service and then admitted to an available bed. 
• Geriatric Mental Health Outpatient Services (formerly PACE): the Outpatient clinics provide evidence-based assessment and psychogeriatric consultation for clients over age 60 experiencing impairments related to mood, psychotic and memory disorders.  Examples of these conditions include depression, anxiety, schizophrenia and dementia.  Other concerns related to grief or concurrent addiction issues can also be addressed.
• Community-based outreach teams also provide a range of services to seniors in long-term care homes and occasionally their home environment in the Greater Toronto and Peel areas.
• The clinics also provide consultation to community agencies; advocacy, education and support to the clients' family members; and community education.

Address
Intergenerational Wellness Centre, 80 Workman Way, Queen Street Site between Shaw Street and Ossington Avenue

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An integrated care pathway (ICP) is a new approach at CAMH to treating a person who needs help. That person needs to see the right people, in the right order, in the right place, at the right time. An ICP makes sure this happens, by identifying a care team of different professionals and mapping out the treatment process from start to finish. An ICP puts the person at the centre of all their care, which results in better care. ICPs have been used in some parts of the medical system for several decades. but it is only recently that they been developed for mental health and addictions care. CAMH launched its first pathways, including the ICP for treating depression and alcohol dependence, in 2013. Now there are eight pathways, with more being developed bipolar Disorder, dementia Agitation and Aggression (Inpatient), early Psychosis Unit (Inpatient), first Episode Psychosis Clinic (Outpatient), late Life Schizophrenia, major Depression and Alcohol Dependence and schizophrenia (Inpatient)

Integrated care pathways put the focus on the patient’s overall journey, get patients the right care and treatment at the right time, make sure that care decisions are based on evidence, make sure that different members of a care team (e.g., physician, nurse, pharmacist, social worker) work together effectively and empower and inform patients and their carers. The patient is at the centre of the team. Around them is a group of professionals communicating with each other about the treatment plan. The core members of a team will depend on the pathway a patient is on, but may include a physician, nurse, pharmacist, recreation therapist, social worker and others. If it would be helpful to a particular patient, other professionals might also be involved. All care pathways include at least two areas of treatment: medication, and non-medication treatment such as psychotherapy (see the map of the treatment process below). The teamwork between physicians and other clinicians is a real benefit to patients, and allows the treatment to hit the ground running.

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CAMH's New Beginnings Clinic provides psychiatric consultation and possible brief culturally sensitive interventions to newly arrived refugees, as well as case consultation for care providers. CAMH and the Crossroads Clinic at Women’s College Hospital have been working together to find ways to respond to the mental health needs of Syrian newcomers during and after the resettlement surge. In March 2016, CAMH launched a refugee mental health and wellness service called the New Beginnings Clinic.  While this service was developed in response to the resettlement surge of Syrian people, services will not be restricted to this group but will be available to all refugees in their first two years in Toronto. The service has two components:

• Case consultation - provides primary care providers with access to psychiatrists and social workers for discussion and advice on client/patient cases.
• Psychiatric consultation and, when appropriate, brief culturally sensitive interventions for newly arrived refugees (eg., GARs, PSRs  and refugee claimants) with psychological issues or concerns.  

Case consultation provided in component #1 may result in a recommendation for psychiatric consultation and brief culturally sensitive intervention in the CAMH service.  

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Office of Transformative Global Health

International Health Programs, otherwise referred to as the Office of Transformative Global Health, aims to jointly develop, implement, and sustain collaborative programs for health professionals, and allied professionals, in Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and Africa; with a primary focus on capacity building, continuing professional clinical and health promotion education/training programs. The objective is to strengthen the capacity of partners in the developing world to provide improved care and more effectively evaluate clinical and health promotion outcomes of mental health and addictions interventions.

The program also organizes exchange programs and study visits for health professionals from a variety of disciplines and plans for academic outcomes of all international health initiatives through in-depth evaluation as well as support for local evaluative research, academic debate, publication and dissemination. The Office of Transformative Global Health also provides available technical expertise in response to requests from international bodies (especially PAHO) and national institutions.

The ACTION program allows between 20-25 international medical graduates to secure observerships at CAMH each year. These provide a window on Canadian clinical practices for foreign trained physicians seeking entry into medicine in Ontario. Each year, the partners of the various initiatives abroad are also invited to CAMH to share their local challenges, expertise and innovation with staff and stakeholders of CAMH. The director also teaches 2 graduate courses on international health, within public health sciences, as an academic component of the work.

Address
Rm. 4082, Russell Street site Canada

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Portico is a network of addiction and mental health sites from across Canada. Portico offers clinical tools and evidence-based materials for health care providers, social service workers and others. While the resources on the core Portico pages are designed for professional use, they can be of equal interest to those with lived experience and their families. Portico hosts partner sites that are built and run by other groups and networks. They are editorially independent of the main site, with a variety of perspectives. Portico's search engine includes our partners and a wide range of external addiction and mental health sites to help you find what you need.

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Centre for Addiction and Mental Health 33 Russell Street Toronto, Ontario M5S 2S1 Canada

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The Problem Gambling Institute of Ontario at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health brings treatment professionals and leading researchers together with experts in communicating and sharing knowledge. Our focus is on collaboratively developing, modelling and sharing evidence-based solutions to gambling related problems, within Ontario and around the world.

• Clinical Service: The PGIO has the largest specialized gambling treatment program in Ontario. Those in the Toronto area who are affected by their own problematic gambling or that of a family member can participate in clinical programs that have been designed with their needs in mind. Our program includes specialized services for women, youth, older adults and ethno-cultural communities. In partnership with other organizations, we fund and train practitioners to provide problem gambling treatment and outreach in 17 languages. Psychiatric and other clinical consultations are available to treatment professionals who have clients with complex gambling problems, including other mental health and addiction issues. 
• Education and Community Resources: training and support is provided to Ontario’s specialized problem gambling treatment system and allied professionals, including financial counsellors, correctional workers, addiction and mental health specialists, EAP providers, educators and ethno-cultural workers. Specialized training and support is also provided for all employees of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG), the provincial agency operating and managing province-wide lotteries, casinos and slots facilities at horse racing tracks. Available resources for people affected by problem gambling, their families and helping professionals include a comprehensive treatment manual, a multi-faceted package to support community-based awareness initiatives, a series of information guides and ProblemGambling.ca, a comprehensive, bilingual website for information and resources on problem gambling. 
• Research: CAMH is Canada’s largest mental health and addictions research facility, with 100 full-time scientists and 300 research staff working to better understand mental illness and substance-use disorders; to improve diagnosis, prevention and intervention; and to develop public policies. Approximately half of the funding provided by the Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre has been awarded to our problem gambling researchers. Areas of research investigation have included the genetics of problem gambling behaviour, potential pharmacological treatments and evaluations of different treatment approaches, including cognitive therapy, acupuncture, telephone counselling and mutual aid approaches. Our researchers have also developed screening, assessment, treatment and relapse-prevention resources.
• Centre for Addiction & Mental Health: CAMH is Canada's leading Addiction and Mental Health teaching hospital. CAMH succeeds in transforming the lives of people affected by addiction and mental illness, by applying the latest in scientific advances, through integrated and compassionate clinical practice, health promotion, education and research.

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Problem Gambling Institute of Ontario 33 Russell Street Toronto, Ontario M5S 2S1 Canada

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Problem.gambling@camh.ca

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CAMH’s Sexual Behaviours Clinic (SBC) provides services for people with sexual behaviours or urges that may have resulted in personal and/or legal difficulties. The clinic provides several services including: 

• Assessment
• Individual & Group Counselling
• Family Counselling
• Consultation to other agencies and professionals
• Pharmacological assessment and treatment related to sex drive 

Our team includes professionals from psychiatry, psychology, sexology, social work, and other disciplines. The clinic only provides services to individuals over the age of 18. Our clients typically include people who have been convicted of a sexual offence and are serving community sentences (this includes contact offences, child pornography offences, and other non-contact offences); people who are on formal mental health diversion through the court for a sexual-related offence;people who are distressed by their sexual interest and/or behaviours {this includes both legal, (i.e., excessive masturbation and pornography use), and illegal, (i.e., an interest in child pornography)]; people with intellectual disabilities and those with concurrent mental illness and/or substance abuse issues, who are experiencing challenges with their sexual behaviour (this includes people with or without criminal convictions). Importantly, they also provide services to the families of people who have been convicted of sexual offences.  A referral is not required for this service and individuals who are interested in this service may contact the clinic directly. The clinic caters to diverse cultural and linguistic communities.  CAMH interpretation services are provided for clients as needed for both assessment and treatment. 

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1001 Queen St. W Unit 2, 1st Floor Toronto, ON M6J 1H4 Canada

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The Adult Gender Identity Clinic at CAMH offers specialty services to both individuals and their primary care practitioners in Ontario in regard to issues related to gender identity and expression, including gender expansive, trans and  non-binary identities.  We support the person in meeting their gender journey goals.  The Clinic follows the World Professional Association for Transgender Health Standards of Care (WPATH),V7 for transition related surgery (TRS). The program offers a comprehensive response to the variety of clinical issues experienced by clients.  The clinical team is interdisciplinary and includes social work, psychiatry and psychology staff with specialized expertise in trauma informed mental health and addiction care. Our services include services for

• Individuals: the clinic offers consultations and support to individuals over 18 who wish to explore issues related to their gender identity, which may include any degree of transgender expression. Consultation and support may include: comprehensive mental health assessments, individual support and treatment, group-based support and treatment, as well as recommendations for surgery funding and referrals for clients seeking transition-related surgeries.
• Community Professionals: the Adult Gender Identity Clinic provides support and consultations to primary care practitioners and other clinicians in the community and in other health care settings to help them help their clients reach their goals related to gender identity and expression.  This may include consultations in regard to completing a mental health assessment, consultation in regard to completing a surgery approval assessment, or -being a second assessor for surgery approvals. The clinic will work collaboratively with you and your organization/practice to help you meet your client’s goals. 

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The Clinical Laboratory and Diagnostic Services Department provides relevant, accurate and timely information which contributes to the wellness of the community. Laboratory information is an important aspect of patient care and is critical to the support of specific diagnosis and therapies.

• Laboratory Tests: the Laboratory at CAMH provides on site testing services in the following disciplines: Biochemistry, Hematology and Toxicology. Phlebotomy service is provided at both the College and Queen Street sites. Patient testing that cannot be provided in-house is referred to other accredited Laboratories as appropriate to the testing requested.
• EEG and ECG: electro-diagnostic services (EEG and ECG) are available to CAMH's inpatients and outpatients. Routine EEGs are preformed to rule out or diagnose organicity, seizure disorders, encephalopathies or tumors. ECGs assess risk to patients pre-medication and pre-ECT and diagnose cardiac infarct, conduction blockages, arrhythmias, etc.
• X-ray: basic diagnostic radiology is provided for inpatients and outpatients of CAMH at the Queen Street site through a contract with a state-of the art mobile X-Ray service that is on site twice per week. Patient testing that cannot be provided in-house is referred to other accredited Laboratories as appropriate to the testing requested.

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The Complex Mental Illness/Forensic Services include clients whose serious mental illness has brought them in contact with the law and who are now in the forensic mental health system. The program provides a continuum of care that includes assessment, treatment and rehabilitation across a range of units at different levels of security, as well as community supervision, consultation, and specialty services. Links to these various services are provided on the left hand side of the screen.

Contact: Diana Shea, Administrative Secretary, ( ext. 32898. Fax at Queen Street site: (416) 583-4319 - Unit 2-1.

Contact: Leena Ramharakh, Administrative Supervisor, (416) 535-8501, ext. 32937, Unit 3-4.

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The Mood and Anxiety Service provides outpatient and inpatient services to clients with mood and anxiety disorders. The outpatient part provides services for clients with major depression, bipolar disorder (manic depressive illness), anxiety disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorders. Psychiatrists, social workers, occupational therapists, psychologists, nurses, psychometrists and recreation therapists staff the service. It is divided into six specialty clinics which provide clinical care, education and research. The program offers consultations; time limited treatment and follow-up, education and services for families. There is a 12-bed inpatient unit located on the Queen Street site.

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The Ontario Pharmacy Support Program (OPSP) is a non-OHIP funded clinic with a mission to help reduce the emotional, social, and economic costs associated with mental health and substance use problems in the workplace for members of the College of Pharmacists of Ontario and their families.  The clinic consists of an interprofessional team of Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Pharmacists, Occupational Therapists, Social Workers, and Physicians specializing in Mental Health, Addictions, and Pain. Our team has extensive experience in evidence-based assessment and treatment of mental health and substance use issues. We also provide education, support, and information to help navigate the health care system in Ontario, including available community resources. The expert team works together to facilitate improved function and recovery of your College Member (Pharmacists, Pharmacist Technicians, and Pharmacy Students/Interns), with the goal of a successful and safe work-life. Our services include: education, assessment, treatment, monitoring, and/or referral to appropriate community services.

The mission of the WSH Program and OPSP for the Ontario College of Pharmacists and the Ontario Pharmacists Association is to help reduce the emotional, social, and economic costs associated with mental health and substance use problems in the workplace. We are committed to a holistic approach that helps individuals to transform their lives and recover in ways that are culturally, religiously, and spiritually sensitive. Services are available for all Members of the College of Pharmacists of Ontario (Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians, Pharmacy Students/Interns) as well as support for their family members. They provide members with fee-for-service options including comprehensive psychological, psychiatric and/or substance use assessments: clear diagnostic and functional formulation of member’s condition; treatment and practice recommendations(e.g., monitoring, safety concerns in practice; direct or facilitated interventions within WSH treatment tailored to members’ specific needs; evidence-based treatment; substance use counseling and relapse prevention; co-ordination of specialized mental health and substance programs within CAMH; mmonitoring services that are tailored to members’ specific needs. The also provide at no cost self-referral options; information and advice about mental health concerns; information about available clinical and assessment services throughout Ontario and information about monitoring and advocacy services.

The team has the expertise and training to provide assessment, diagnoses, and treatment in the areas of mental health, substance abuse/dependence, stress and burnout, marital and family difficulties, among many others, as well as access to additional specialized clinics within CAMH. We are also able to provide referrals to external resources at the Member’s request Program Goals include to provide industry-leading assessment, treatment, and disability management services; prevent long-term disability absences; promote the health and wellness of Members; provide evidence-based, prompt, comprehensive options for all Members; romote return to work and improve productivity; and maintain confidentiality of all Members

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455 Spadina Avenue, Suite 200, Toronto, ON M5S 2G8 Canada

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The Ontario Psychiatric Outreach Program (OPOP) currently operates out of CAMH. It is an administrative body that oversees the  funding and policies that govern the three clinical programs Northern Psychiatric Outreach Program at CAMH (NPOP-C), Northern Ontario Francophone Psychiatric Program (NOFPP) at the University of Ottawa, and the Extended Campus Program at Western University, which collaborate to provide clinical service, education and support to communities throughout Northern Ontario, particularly those considered rural, remote or underserviced in terms of access to mental health care services . The operations of OPOP are governed by its steering committee that is comprised of members of the clinical programs, MOHLTC and LHIN representatives.

The Northern Psychiatric Outreach Program at CAMH (NPOP-C), operates out of CAMH, and its primary mandate is to provide fly-in and drive-in psychiatric consultations, education and support to the underserviced areas of Northern Ontario, particularly those communities that are rural, remote and considered underserviced and as allocated   by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Northern health program. In collaboration with the University of Toronto, Department of Psychiatry, and NOSM, NPOP-C actively promotes resident outreach and education to these underserviced communities.

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College Street site, 250 College Street, Toronto, Ontario Canada

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The Medication Substance Program (MSP) is a non-OHIP funded Specialty Clinic that provides service to the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB).  This WSIB Specialty Program is designed to meet the needs of workers who are being treated with high dose opioid medications and living with chronic pain issues resulting from a workplace injury. The MSP includes comprehensive, interprofessional outpatient and inpatient services catering to a diverse worker population. Our outpatient professionals include Pharmacists, Occupational Therapists, Social Workers, and Physicians specializing in Neurology, Addiction, and Pain Management. Treatment Options include:

• Daily Outpatient Group Treatment –  8-week program with a primary focus  on safe tapering of opioid medications as well as coping strategies for pain management.
• Inpatient Medical Withdrawal Services – 7-day inpatient program for clients providing  24-hour support and supervision and assessment to assist clients with safe withdrawal from physically addictive substances. Clients are able to access psycho-educational groups during their stay and regular assessment by performed by physicians to monitor and assess progress.
• Inpatient Residential Addiction Services – 21 Day-Residential program during which clients are provided with psychoeducation, relapse prevention skills, stress management skills and group processing time.
• Outpatient Individualized Services –  provided on an as-needed basis, a customized comprehensive treatment plan is provided by  Addiction Specialists, Psychologists, Social Workers, Pharmacists, and/or Occupational Therapists. 

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455 Spadina Avenue, Suite 210, Toronto, ON, M5S 2G8 Canada

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The Temerty Centre for Therapeutic Brain Intervention encompasses, Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) , Magnetic Seizure Therapy(MST) and  Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS).  The service offers consultation on clients with refractory and difficult to treat psychiatric disorders. The service has a clinical research focus. The novel treatments (rTMS and MST) that are available are primarily offered in the context of participation in ongoing clinical trials. Clients who are interested in participating in one of the clinical trials will meet with a research analyst following the psychiatric consultation for more detailed description of the available studies and will undergo more detailed screening to ensure eligibility.  Clients who are not eligible for participation in one of the clinical research trials may or may not be eligible to receive treatment outside of one of the clinical trials. Current Research Programgs inlcude

• Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to Evaluate the Role of Clozapine Potentiation of Gaba in the Treatment of Schizophrenia
• Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Treatment Study to Enhance Working Memory Deficits in Patients with Schizophrenia
• Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Treatment Resistant Depressive Disorder
• Cortical Inhibition in the Pathophysiology and Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder
• Paired Associative Stimulation in the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Patients with Schizophrenia: A combined rTMS and Electroencephalography study across the Lifespan
• The Effects of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on Healthy Human Subjects
• Inhibition of Gamma Oscillations as a Neurophysiological Endophenotype of Schizophrenia
• Measuring Cortical Inhibition in Patients with Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder: A TMS EEG study
   

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CAMH's Women's Mental Health Service primarily serves women who have a history of trauma in combination with a diagnosis of mental illness. Services include:

• Women and trauma Service (Integrated Day Treatment Servoce: the Women and Trauma Service is an 8 week outpatient program for women struggling with  the impact of trauma on their lives which can have an affect on daily living activities. The program provides individual and group treatment, including dialectical behavioural therapy (DBT), psychoeducation, and skill building and coaching
• The Women's Inpatient Unit is a time limited, goal-oriented acute inpatient unit for women with severe mental illness or mood and anxiety disorders who may have experienced trauma (childhood sexual, physical and emotional abuse and/or sexual or physical assault in adulthood) and /or addiction. Individualized treatment includes assessment, diagnostic clarification, stabilization, focused treatment interventions and facilitation of community linkages.

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9th floor 250 College Street Toronto, ON M5T 1R8 Canada

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CAMH's Work, Stress and Health (WSH) Service is a non-OHIP funded interprofessional program that provides comprehensive Psychiatric and Psychological consultations, assessments, and treatments in Pain Management, Medication Misuse, Addictions, and Relapse Prevention. Their clinic consists of an interdisciplinary team of Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Pharmacists, Occupational Therapists, Social Workers, and Physicians specializing in Neurology, Addictions, and Pain Management. Our mission is to support clients in their recovery from the challenges associated with mental health and substance use/misuse concerns. In addition, WSH aims to increase workplace wellness in order to reduce the costs associated with mental health concerns in the workplace. Committed to an evidence-based approach to treatment, we employ empirically-validated treatments, with an emphasis on psychoeducation, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), as well as pharmacological interventions. The specific programs include:

• Psychological Trauma Program
• Medication and Substance Program
• Occupational Stress and Trauma Recovery Clinic
• Ontario Pharmacy Support Program
• Forensic Psycholegal Clinic

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455 Spadina Avenue, Suite 210, Toronto, ON, M5S 2G8 Canada

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The Workman Arts Project of Ontario (Workman Arts) supports aspiring, emerging and established artists with mental illness and addiction issues who are committed to developing and refining their art forms, and to promote a greater understanding of mental illness and addiction through film, theatre, visual arts, music and literary arts. The objectives of Workman Arts are to promote public awareness of mental health and addiction issues through various artistic media, provide arts training, support, and employment within a professional creative environment for people receiving mental health services and addiction services, promote relations between Workman Arts and Ontario arts companies in order to enhance employment opportunities for people receiving mental health and addiction services, and be an information source for members of the artistic community seeking information regarding mental health problems and related issues.

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651 Dufferin St, Toronto, ON M6K 2B2 Canada

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The Psychological Trauma Program (PTP) is a non-OHIP funded Specialty Clinic that provides service to the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB).  They provide comprehensive psychiatric and psychological assessments, treatment, and disability management services for individuals referred by WSIB. Our goal is to help reduce the emotional, social, and economic costs associated with mental health problems in the workplace. We are committed to a holistic approach that supports individuals along their journey of recovery. WSH is committed to addressing the barriers to recovery often faced by individuals with mental health and substance use concerns, such as stigma, level of comfort seeking treatment, inadequate “function-focused” treatment, and limited support with transitions to return to work. 

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The Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health (CRRMH) is committed to addressing the social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in rural and remote communities across NSW. The three core areas of suicide prevention, mental health promotion and service development reflects this commitment, as does our aim to engage appropriately in research and education with Aboriginal communities. They continue to develop competency of CRRMH staff to work in a cross-cultural context and to work with Aboriginal communities in a respectful manner.

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The Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health (CRRMH) has adapted the ‘Act-Belong- Commit’ mental health promotion campaign as one of its key initiatives. ‘Act-Belong-Commit’ is a community-based health promotion campaign that encourages people to take action to improve their mental health and wellbeing. This evidence-based campaign was developed from research undertaken by Curtin University into people’s perceptions of mental health and the behaviours they believed protected and promoted good mental health. Act-Belong-Commit

• Act: keep physically, socially, cognitively and spiritually active. Take a walk, phone a friend, do a crossword, dance, or play cards.
• Belon: join a book club, take a cooking class, be more involved in groups you are already a member of or go along to community events.
• Commit: make a commitment to an interest or a cause, learn something new, take on a challenge or volunteer.

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Books on Prescription is a tool in the stepped-care mental health tool kit The CRRMH has partnered with the Books on Prescription scheme, which supports these treatment steps and is now available in public libraries across Central and Far Western NSW. Books included in the scheme are clinically verified, based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and cover a range of mild to moderate mental health conditions, including anxiety and depression. The scheme encourages the participation of GPs and other health professionals.

The Books on Prescription user guide includes a list of recommended books that can be downloaded at booksonprescription.com.au. Individuals can take their book recommendation to the library, where the book can be borrowed for free and without a referral. GPs or other mental health professionals such as psychologists or counsellors can also recommend the books. The user guide advises that individuals contact their GP or another health professional if the book doesn’t seem to be helping. Practitioners are encouraged to reinforce this as part of the consultation process.

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Good SPACE (GS) (formerly known as Farm-Link) is a Suicide Prevention Project that aims to prevent suicide through community and clinical education. The project, supported by Hunter New England Central Coast Primary Health Network (PHN) also helps link people to services appropriate to their needs. Good SPACE aims to increase AWARENESS about why people die by suicide, what leads a person into that space, and what we can all do to be in a good space. They provide practical suggestions to help individuals personally so they can have the COURAGE to make choices to keep themselves in a good space and the COURAGE to have a conversation about suicide with a person they are concerned about. They encourage EMPATHY to reduce the stigma surrounding suicide, acknowledging suicide as a real human condition that can be dramatically reduced by care, concern and listening to the pain of another. Through AWARENESS, COURAGE and EMPATHY a person can be helped to choose life, to make better choices and to re-discover hope. We believe this (along with encouraging help-seeking) will contribute to the prevention of suicide.

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The Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health’s aims to understand and respond to suicide in rural and remote communities across NSW. They conduct research activities to help understand the key factors leading to suicide and also deliver a wide range of workshops and training courses to educate communities and health professionals in suicide prevention. They are part of the NSW Mental Health Commission Suicide Prevention Advisory Group which works to improve planning, monitoring and co-ordination of suicide prevention efforts. 

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The John Hoskin Library provides information and publications relevant to rural and remote mental health and is available for health professionals employed through the Western NSW Local Health District, university students, patients, carers and members of the public. The Library also includes the Bloomfield Hospital library collection and resources from the University of Newcastle.

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Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health Building c/o Bloomfield Hospital Forest Road Orange NSW 2800

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The Rural Adversity Mental Health Program (RAMHP) is a state-wide program funded by the NSW Ministry of Health, that links rural people to the help they need. RAMHP is managed by the Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health (CRRMH), in partnership with each of the rural NSW Local Health Districts.

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Bowker House (Bellville) is a 66 bed frail care facility for psychiatric patients located on the Stikland Hospital Grounds. 

Community Mental Health Academy offers a One- and Two year Care Giving Course, which focuses on the caring of psychiatric and intellectually disabled adults and dual disabled children. The purpose of this course is to develop the knowledge and skills of the students in the daily caring of people with these disabilities.

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The Community Mental Health and Psychiatry (CMHP) clinic that provides primary health care to service users with a long-term psychiatric diagnosis. In line with psychiatric rehabilitation principals our residents are encouraged to visit the clinic when necessary just as people in the community do. 

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De La Haye (Bellville) is an ordinary residential home in the community where we offer independent living with supervision and support for high functioning psychiatric patients. It is generally referred to as a New Generation Home.

Elroi (outside Stellenbosch) is a 25 bed facility for intellectually disabled adults. Residents should be able to do self-care tasks and household chores.

The CMHP frail care centre provides care and services to our own long term patients who, due to deteriorating health, cannot function in any of our facilities.

Harris House (in Strand) is a 45 bed facility for long-term psychiatric adults who can function well in the community, but with a level of care and support. These residents have formed closely knitted support for one another, with each resident having their own responsibility to ensure the smooth running of the facility. Harris House is in walking distance from the beach.

Hensie Vroom (Bellville) is a 35 bed facility for severely and profoundly disabled children located on the Stikland Hospital grounds. They offer permanent care to children over 18 and respite care to children under 18.

Kerith Retreat (outside Stellenbosch) is a 55 bed facility for long-term psychiatric patients. This project is situated on a farm near the Muldersvlei train station. There is a whole range of service that is offered. Residents should be able to do self-care tasks and household chores.

Sonop (Bellville) is a 60 bed facility where long-term psychiatric clients live and work. The name which means "Sunrise" was chosen by the residents themselves, signifying that a new life with new challenges has dawned.

Research Question Submission Page lists funded research questions (open to all) and unfunded questions from Low Income Nations. We hope this site will connect needed, practical questions with researchers, especially those undertaking work at a Masters, PhD, or post doc level. This will provide those posing the research questions with high quality research while the scientist may make new connections, identify potential future employment opportunities, and may receive funding for their work.

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Durham Mental Health Services offers a community-based support program which assists individuals with mental health problems to live successfully in the community. Support is individualized to client needs. The program provides:

• Support and Advocacy – including assistance with daily living and meeting basic needs (e.g., housing, financial), life skills development, supportive counseling and crisis intervention, assistance navigating the mental health system, referrals and coordination of support.
• Information and Education – including crisis prevention and management, symptom and medication management, mental health information and education.

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DURHAM MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES believes that individuals with lived experience of mental illness can vitally contribute to the recovery process for people who are experiencing mental health problems. The client/peer support relationship can promote resilience and help buffer stressors or adversity. Clients benefit from the empathy and encouragement that a person who has lived their struggles can offer. It is support “by peers for peers” – a positive, inspiring, and equal relationship that promotes health, self-acceptance, and progress towards recovery. DHMS Consumer Survivor Initiatives can offer:

• Assistance setting recovery goals
• Life-skills training and coaching
• Psycho-educational programming
• Social networking and support
• Linkage to services
• Education
• System coordination
• Peer Support program development

Our Peer Support Specialists also work in the community to raise awareness of mental illness and stigma, provide education, and coordinate Peer Support programming with other organizations. In this capacity, DMHS is the lead agency in the Consumer Survivor Initiative Network for the Central East LHIN. DMHS is a proud sponsor of the consumer advocacy group V.A.S.E. – Voices Against Stigma Everywhere. 

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Durham Mental Health Services offers a range of crisis supports to assist individuals who are experiencing a personal or situational crisis. 

• Crisis Services: telephone support is available toll free, 24 hours per day, to support the individual in crisis and/or their supports.  A community visit by our mobile crisis team can be arranged to support the individual in their preferred environment.  Follow-up support, including linkage and referral to other community supports, are also available.
• Crisis Beds: short-term stays in our Crisis Beds are available for individuals who are experiencing a crisis and are in need of individualized support in a safe, supportive setting away from their present situation.
• Mental Health Safe Beds: short-term residential crisis beds for individuals living with mental health problems, who are in contact with the justice system.  The program offers a safe alternative (where appropriate) to incarceration or hospitalization.

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Family Support is a program which offers support to the family members and loved ones of a person living with mental health problems.  Our goal is to reduce stress on families by providing:

• Information and Education: coping and stress management strategies, crisis management skills, relapse prevention,s igns and symptoms of mental illness, medications and community resources
• Support and Advocacy: one-to-one support to assist with the practical and emotional aspects of caring for someone with a mental illness
• Information sharing and peer support through regularly scheduled group meetings
• Assistance navigating the mental health system
• Referrals and coordination of support

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Durham Mental Health Services provides a variety of programs that redirect people with mental health problems from the criminal justice and corrections systems to mental heath services and supports.

• Mental Health Court Support: a program  that assists adults with mental health problems who find themselves in conflict with the criminal justice system. A Court Support Worker assesses each referral received, determines what services might be helpful, and assists the client in linking with those services.  Consultation, education, advocacy and linkage to other supports are also available to family members.
• Youth Mental Health Court Support: a Court Support Worker, experienced working with the children and youth sector, is available to provide youth charged under the Youth Criminal Justice Act with court support (including diversion) and linkage to appropriate community services.
• Court Diversion: a pre-trial procedure where the Crown Counsel decides not to prosecute if the accused agrees to a treatment plan to address his or her particular needs. This program is for low risk offenders and participation is voluntary. A Court Support Worker provides consultation and advice to the Crown Attorney’s Office on cases referred for deposition and diversion, and develop a treatment plan for the diversion.
• Release from Custody: a program that provided intensive short-term case management to successfully integrate individuals from the Central East Correctional Centre back into to their community.

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Durham Mental Health Services offers a range of housing options to people with serious mental health problems who wish to live in the community. Clients have the opportunity to progress through our housing programs as greater independence is sought and achieved starting with the highest level of supportive housing.

• High Support: McKay House offers the highest level of support. Clients in this program often require help in areas such as daily living skills, problem solving or coping skills, and in accessing needed services. This home for 15 residents is double staffed 24 hours per day.
• Medium Support: Sims House is the next level of supportive housing. Clients in this program actively participate in household management and have an increased level of responsibility. This home accommodates six residents and is staffed 24 hours per day.
• Minimal Support: Durham Mental Health Services also offers several other supportive housing options, in Whitby and Ajax, for clients who have the ability to live independently with minimal support. Limited assistance with life skills, household management and crisis management is provided by on-site staff during specific hours. After hours emergency support is provided through staffing in our other programs
• Rent Supplement Program: assistance for people with mental health challenges to secure decent housing that is safe and affordable. A rent supplement, plus housing support, is available for 33 units.

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In partnership with Durham Region Non-Profit Housing Corporation and Pinewood Centre (LHO), DMHS Senior Support Service is a comprehensive support service for individuals aged 55+ who have mental health issues, addictions concerns or a concurrent disorder.Using a “hub’ model, the program is staffed by a multi-disciplinary team,  led by a Nurse Coordinator. The primary goal of the program is to ensure that services are in place to enhance and extend independence and improve overall physical and mental health Supports could include:

• Telephone support, security checks, and telephone reassurance
• Linkages with other supports and services within Durham Region
• Physical health support around diabetes, blood pressure, smoking cessation, diet and nutrition, hydration
• Counselling around mental health issues and/or addictions from a recovery orientated and harm reduction focus
• Recreational support—linking to affordable recreation programs or other social networks
• Time limited homemaking services including shopping, house cleaning, and meal preparation.
• Time limited personal support services including dressing, personal hygiene, assisting with mobility, assisting and monitoring medication use and other routine activities of daily living.
• Case management and case coordination (limited availability)

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DMHS is committed to providing meaningful learning opportunities through student placements within a variety of our programs and for a range of disciplines throughout the academic year. We believe strongly in cultivating an environment where students can acquire the skills and experience necessary to become successful professionals in their chosen career.  The Student Placement program offers hands-on experience whereby the student’s primary role is to support and contribute to the goals and routines of the program while adding value wherever possible. Our students are able to meet their learning objectives through well rounded experiences and educational opportunities.

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The Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN) is the world’s largest collaborative community of telemedicine-enabled healthcare sites. Telemedicine allows clients and/or service providers to communicate electronically from different locations with full audio and video over a secure network. Telemedicine is information technology used by health care providers to deliver care to their patients; to engage their patients in their own health management and/or to collaborate with each other to improve care delivery. OTN is an independent not-for-profit corporation funded by the Government of Ontario. Members of OTN are comprised of 1,289 health care and education organizations at more than 1,600 sites. They include hospitals, community health centres, clinics and schools. OTN permits users to come together across vast distances (Ontario-wide) easily and economically. Using telemedicine eliminates travel time and costs and promotes ease-of-access to healthcare services. Telemedicine is used for more than just medicine. It is also used for educational and administrative events. Thousands of public educational events are archived at OTN’s Webcasting Centre (http://webcast.otn.ca/), including many DMHS-hosted workshops. OTN’s vision is for telemedicine to be a mainstream channel for health care delivery and education.

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dclarke@dmhs.ca

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Education and training program offers  a variety of workshops and presentations to help individuals and companies better understand, and help, when dealing with mental health issues. Individuals are welcome to register for any of our upcoming workshops, or our facilitators can come to your organization.  As well as the workshops listed below, workshops can be customized to fill your organization’s needs and time constraints. Facilitators offer the following courses:

• Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST): a workshop ifor caregivers who want to feel more comfortable, confident and competent in helping to prevent the immediate risk of suicide. Over one million caregivers worldwide have participated in this two-day, highly interactive, practical, practice-oriented workshop.
• Mental Health First Aid 
• Mental Illness 101: a 2-day workshop designed to help non-mental health front-line workers become more knowledgeable, comfortable and skilled when dealing with individuals who experience mental illness. It is an alternative or complement to Mental Health First Aid. There are four self-contained sections - General Overview of Mental Illness and Recovery (half-day); The Mood Disorders: Depression and Anxiety (half-day); The Biologically-Based Illnesses: Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder (half-day) and Borderline Personality Disorder or BPD (half-day)
• Combined Crisis/Suicide Intervention 
• Accommodating Mental Illness in the Workplace (
• When Emotions Rise: Maintaining Effectiveness in Emotionally Challenging Situations 
• Understanding Mental Illness, Promoting Recovery (half-day)

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Emerging Proud now has a not-for-profit Publishing Company that publishes only inspirational Pocket Books

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KindaProud is an innovative ‘Pocket Books of Hope and Transformation’ series, these personal stories are aimed at providing hope and encouraging us to re-think mental distress as a potential catalyst for positive change. Kinda Proud empowers passionate Peers to tell their stories and be validated in doing so by a growing community that values authenticity, vulnerability and reduces stigma and shame. This helps build confidence and connection. Our project is empowering Peers to bravely speak out, proudly owning their story, and letting their voices be heard, in many cases for the first time. The main aim of our Kinda Proud book series is to decrease stigma, improve wellbeing and influence the saving of lives through providing a more compassionate and positive conceptual framework for emotional distress.

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The AACP Fund will allow community psychiatrists to take the national stage supporting research and programs to bring recovery practices to every community. The AACP Fund was established by the American Association of Community Psychiatrists to encourage, equip and empower community and public psychiatrists to develop and implement policies and high-quality practices that promote individual, family and community resilience and recovery.

Adapting Open Dialogue Project is a recovery-focused early psychosis model imported from Finland with 30 years of research behind it

The Adverse Childhood Experiences Prevention Fund is a fund to prevent adverse childhood experiences and healing the trauma of those already affected.  The Adverse Childhood Experiences Prevention Fund will assist programs dedicated to preventing the causes of Adverse Childhood Experiences that lead to mental health challenges and will partner with existing organizations to increase the availability of care for children that addresses trauma, builds resiliency and does not rely on prescription drugs. The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study is one of the largest investigations ever conducted to assess associations between childhood maltreatment and later-life health and well-being. The study is a collaboration between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Kaiser Permanente’s Health Appraisal Clinic in San Diego.

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The Anatomy Fund will support professional study groups by underwriting the distribution of Robert Whitaker’s groundbreaking book, Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America 

The Bill Anthony General Research Fund supports some of the most exciting and important independent research being done today. This fund is dedicated to research and program development focused on expanding the availability of effective recovery programming.

The Collaborative Pathway Fund brings early psychosis recovery services to families of ordinary means and sharing the model with the world. The Advocates Inc. Collaborative Pathway Fund will enable the Collaborative Pathway team to serve families of ordinary means by supplementing their health insurance with philanthropic support. Fund donations will also support the necessary research to show the safety, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of this clinical model so that it can be adopted by communities across the nation and the world.

The Dorothea Dix Think Tank Fund aims to change the process by which people with mental illness enter jails and prisons and by creating alternatives to incarcerating people with mental illness. The fund has brought together a panel of recognized experts who have “hands on” experience both in mental health and our justice system. 

The Families Healing Together is a dynamic, supportive online community of families healing together – exploring, sharing, listening, feeling, letting go, reclaiming hope, setting boundaries, and ultimately demonstrating the power of community to heal hearts and minds. Families Healing Together is an online leader in the delivery of a new kind of mental health education, providing interactive, self-paced classes and a supportive community focused on recovery.

Gnosis House Retreat Fund will establish a residential house in San Francisco or other Bay Area community based on the R.D. Laing model offering sanctuary and community to those seeking to move through mental, emotional and spiritual distress with minimal or no use of medication. The Gnosis Retreat Center aspires to be a place of safety and community for those who want to take the necessary time to step back and come to an understanding of themselves and their pain and regain their passion for living. It will offer a network of fellow travelers who aspire to cultivate skillful means of helping people whose relations with themselves and others have become an occasion of wretchedness and despair. By living together in a perfectly ordinary household with no regimen to follow, we hope to foster a better understanding of how each of us, perhaps unwittingly, sometimes occasion the predicament we are in, by getting to know ourselves and others at the deepest level. Gnosis Retreat Center is not a “treatment” center, but those who choose to live there are encouraged to participate in individual psychotherapy, with whomever they wish, off premises.

Healing Voices Film Fund is a feature length documentary which asks the question what are we talking about when we talk about "mental illness"?

Contact Person / Email
pj@digitaleyesfilm.com

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Hearing Voices Research and Development Fund provides funding to understand the experience of hearing voices. The Hearing Voices Fund research and development team’s long-planned project to bring Hearing Voices peer support groups to hundreds of communities across the United States is in full swing, sending trainers into the field to equip support group facilitators in five regions of the U.S. and fostering the creation of a stronger regional and local infrastructure over the long term. Thanks to a generous donor, all three phases of the project are now fully funded. Phase Two will expand the network of hearing voices peer-support groups to remaining unserved regions of the United States and build sustaining regional links that will allow the network to thrive and develop over the long term; Phase Three will enable further research to identify ways to optimize the effectiveness of such groups. But this is just the start to realizing our vision of a Hearing Voices group in every neighborhood in America. 

Contact Person / Email
Caroline@westernmassrlc.org

Call 413.539.5941

Holistic Healing Fund is a long-term naturalistic study to assess psychiatric and medical symptoms, quality of life and treatment costs for patients who fail to respond to conventional treatment. This is the first long-term study assessing the medical and economic effectiveness of the Disease-Centered Model (DCM) and the Patient-Centered Approach (PCA). It will assist in reducing the cost of treatment, improving the outcome and quality of life for patients suffering from Anxiety, Depression and Bipolar Disorders who failed to respond to conventional treatments.

Inner Fire will be a proactive, healing community offering a choice for people to recover from debilitating and traumatic life challenges without the use of psychotropic medications. The Inner Fire Fund will launch a proactive, healing community at Grace Brook Farm in Brookline, Vermont, offering a choice for people to recover from debilitating and traumatic life challenges without the use of psychotropic medications. 

The Intentional Peer Support Fund will bring high quality peer support training to communities in need. The Intentional Peer Support Fund will speed the expansion of its innovative peer support curriculum to serve a wider variety of cultures and provide scholarships to people who would otherwise not be able to access the training. 

The International Leadership Academy Fund will transform the lived experiences of mental ill health and recovery into the lived expertise to transform mental health services around the world. The International Leadership Academy Fund aims to prepare persons with lived experiences of mental ill health and recovery to take on leadership roles within their own local, regional, and national systems of care across the globe.

New Standard of Care Fund aims to develop a new standard of care in psychiatry and psychology is an imperative in today’s world.  An International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry effort with the goal of identifying, studying and promoting safe, humane approaches to helping those with mental disorders. Examples of such approaches are psychotherapy, residences based on the Soteria model, non-drug help for persons in early psychosis, peer support and other recovery-based approaches. 

The ISEPP’s New Standard of Care Fund will support various efforts to find, explore, study, understand and promote safe, humane, life-enhancing approaches to helping persons with mental health challenges. In general, this means approaches which do not use psychotropic drugs as the primary treatment but, rather, use drugs very judiciously, for very limited periods of time and only as an adjunct to other forms of treatment. Examples of other approaches are various forms of psychotherapy; residences based on the Soteria model; non-pharmaceutical help for persons in early psychosis, such as the Open Dialogue approach; supported employment, housing and education; support groups such as the Hearing Voices Network; peer support and other recovery-based approaches. Also important to recovery are programs that help with employment, relationships, education, housing, exercise, nutrition and other issues of living.

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RxISK.org puts the power of the Internet to use in collecting data and related narratives of real-life experiences with medications. The RxISK Fund supports the collection, analysis and publishing of patient data and related narratives of experiences with medications to promote recovery and make medicines safer for all of us through the integration of the best research data with clinical expertise and patient values. The RxISK Fund also offers expert assessments of new drugs by independent clinicians for licensed and unlicensed indications, analysis of consumer-reported data relative to medication outcomes, and educational resources about treatment risk and risk mitigation. It also supports these activities:

• Publishing of research results
• Lectures
• Analysis of political, sociological, legal and regulatory impacts on health
• Instruments to aid in determining the likely success or drawbacks of treatment programs and the quality of medical care

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The Empathic Therapy Fund embraces therapeutic, educational and self-development programs rooted in empathy. They support research, education, publications, conferences and other projects that are based on and that foster caring, respectful human relationships. The Center has an Advisory Board of more than 70 outstanding, international professionals from the fields of medicine, neurology, psychiatry, nursing, addiction, psychology, social work, counseling, ministry, education, law and public advocacy. 

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The Folktime Fund will secure the future of FolkTime’s peer support programs for generations to come through the planned giving of its founders and other friends of FolkTime.

The Global Mental Health Fund provides mentors and funding to health programs in low and middle-income countries to establish and assess psychiatric rehabilitation models that are tailored to the unique needs of each community. The Global Mental Health Fund provides mentors and funding to health programs in low and middle-income countries to establish and assess psychiatric rehabilitation models that are tailored to the unique needs of each community. 

The Nutrition and Mental Health Research Fund will support research and education on the ability of multi-nutrient treatments to reverse and prevent the onset of psychiatric symptoms. The Nutrition and Mental Health Research Fund will support research and education on the ability of multi-nutrient treatments to reverse and prevent the onset of psychiatric symptoms. 

Gotcha4Life kickstarts the conversation around mental fitness in communities with inspiring and interactive talks and workshops that engage, educate, and empower individuals and communities to build mental fitness. Members of the Gotcha4Life team including our passionate Founder, media personality Gus Worland, Gotcha4Life trained presenters and ambassadors, talk openly about their lived experiences, and the power of building mental fitness.

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Australia

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Gotcha4Life delivers preventative mental fitness workshops and training to inspire and enable all Australians to take action to build their mental fitness. We deliver to schools, sports clubs, community groups, and workplaces to get those hard conversations started sooner and provide the skills to have them within our communities.

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Australia

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Gotcha4Life’s Mentally Fit Primary Schools program takes a prevention-first, whole-of-school approach to building wellbeing capacity. Designed to inspire and enable your staff, students, parent and carer community to adopt a proactive approach to building their mental fitness, we partner with you to establish an enduring, mentally fit school climate.

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Australia

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Gotcha4Life powers workshops delivered by our expert partners. Tomorrow Man deliver an immersive learning experience, training young men how to walk their own path, talk with gravity and engage actively, with purpose, in all areas of their lives.

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Australia

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Tomorrow Woman aspires to reignite girls and women around Australia with their innate voice, empowering them to confidently express their needs and opinions in the moments that matter.

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Australia

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Mental health accredited training is delivered by our qualified partner Anchor Health to empower members of the community to help others confidently and safely. 

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Australia

Contact Person / Email
info@mananchor.com.au

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Hearts & Minds is here to support you and your families, because we believe that resourced, supported, and informed families are central to community wellness. Hearts & Minds is here to support families of every kind. If you and your family are in need  of support, Hearts & Minds can help you along the way with some services.  If you've just immigrated to New Zealand, or if you are already in Nz from a while, but you still need some issues...we can provide support and information about living and in New Zealand. Settle in a new country is a challenge! Let us help you to find the right solution to your needs. Learn more about all the services available for Newcomers in Auckland Notrh Region. Our life skills seminars, courses, training and workshops are developed to respond to the needs and requests of different groups and communities, with the ultimate goal of helping equip people with the skills to make better, more positive life choices. 

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learning@heartsandminds.org.nz

Call (09) 441 8989

Global Food & Friends is a friendship group for newcomers, migrants, refugees and Kiwis.  You can learn about Kiwi culture, find out how local services can help you to settle in New Zealand, try foods from around the world, meet others, make new friends and have fun. Learn from a wide range of speakers and activities.

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info@heartsandminds.org.nz 

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The Migrant and Refuge Directory is a database of information for people from a CALD background and new to New Zealand. As a directory, there are a number of categories including:

• Community Information
• Education
• Employment
• Ethnic Communities / Organisations
• General / Support Services
• Government Agencies
• Health Services
• Language Support
• Media / Radio Stations / Events
• Religious Support & Churches

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Strengthening Families is a n initiative dedicated to helping whanau and families connect with the support services and agencies they need. This could be anything from working with a budget advisor, truancy officer or social worker, to a medical specialist, counsellor or teacher. The different organisations will work together to help develop a plan of action that best suits your family or whanau. The aim is to shift the focus from crisis intervention, giving you the support right when you need it, before any difficult situations get worse.

Strengthening Families pulls together support for families/ whänau in New Zealand. The people helping your family may be a budget advisor, truancy officer, social worker, medical specialist, counsellor, teacher or other support worker.  One works out together what support your family/ whänau needs and what each service is going to do.  It is set up so families/ whänau tell their story once to everyone at the same time. Then everyone agrees on a plan to move you forward.

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PO Box 1556 Wellington New Zealand

Call +64 4 918 9281

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Inspire Ireland’s Youth Advisory Network is made up a young people that wish to get actively involved in our work. Becoming a member of the network means playing an important role in shaping the direction of the service. The network contributes by developing written and visual content for the website, helping to promote ReachOut.com at events around the country, providing feed-back on communication campaigns  and ReachOut.com projects You can find out more in the Getting Involved section of ReachOut.com or by contacting us at info@inspireireland.ie

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Ireland

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The Please Talk initiative is funded by the HSE National Office of Suicide Prevention and has two components.

• The first is the campaign’s message that ‘talking is a sign of strength’, which urges students to talk to someone if they’re having problems at home, at college or anywhere else.
• The second component of the campaign, the Please Talk website, www.pleasetalk.org, highlights the extensive supports available to students on campuses throughout Ireland, as well as other external information and services.

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Ireland

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ReachOut.com offers comprehensive and in-depth information on mental health issues for young people. It also provides a safe space where young people can engage with our team of moderators and panel of experts on issues that really affect them – from drugs and alcohol to suicide and self-harm, from exam stress to bullying. The service encourages help-seeking and facilitates connections to face to face services and supports in a positive environment. ReachOut.com uses social media and new technologies to help prevent youth suicide and improve young people’s mental health and well-being. Through ReachOut.com Inspire is dedicated to taking the mystery out of mental health.

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Ireland

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The Inspire Ambassador Programme creates deeper involvement with people who are passionate about the work of Inspire, helping young people in Ireland lead happier lives. Being an ambassador means more ownership of the Inspire programmes and the direction it takes into the future. Ambassadors are involved in a wide range of activities from: Representing Inspire at events and in the media, ReachOut.com content creation, Fundraising, Advocacy

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Ireland

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Young people are at the centre of everything the Inspire Foundation do. Working with young people, we aim to promote mental health and well-being in a way that is open and honest, but above all is safe and supportive. Inspire uses creative technology and social media, combined with the direct involvement of young people, to deliver an innovative and practical online programme.

• Youth Advisory Network: Inspire Ireland’s Youth Advisory Network is made up a young people that wish to get actively involved in our work. Becoming a member of the network means playing an important role in shaping the direction of the service. The network contributes by developing written and visual content for the website, helping to promote ReachOut.com at events around the country, providing feed-back on communication campaigns  and ReachOut.com projects You can find out more in the Getting Involved section of ReachOut.com or by contacting us at info@inspireireland.ie.
• Ambassador Programme: The Inspire Ambassador Programme creates deeper involvement with people who are passionate about the work of Inspire, helping young people in Ireland lead happier lives. Being an ambassador means more ownership of the Inspire programmes and the direction it takes into the future. Ambassadors are involved in a wide range of activities from: Representing Inspire at events and in the media, ReachOut.com content creation, Fundraising, Advocacy
• Internships: Inspire Ireland realises the importance of providing opportunities to individuals who are creative and passionate about helping young people lead happier lives. Inspire runs two internship programmes in Community Engagement and Online Communications. These offer a rich and challenging learning opportunity and allow interns to contribute their ideas and talents to Inspire. To see examples of our youth engagement please check out Inspire Ireland’s community partners.

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