Providing various medical and mental health services in Barrie, Ontario, including an Emergency Department.The CTO Coordination Service provides support to every CTO that is issued in Simcoe County. This support includes:
* assessing clients` suitability for a CTO,
* assisting physicians to complete the proper forms and
* advocating for services for those individuals meeting the criteria for a CTO.
A CTO is a physician`s order for community based treatment for individuals living with a serious mental illness who have had repeated hospital admissions and require ongoing support when they leave the hospital. A CTO ensures that individuals receive all the supports they require to live in the community including a physician, a case manager, housing, support with medication and assistance with finances and meaningful activities.
This service also provides education and information about Community Treatment Orders, Mental Health Act and related legislation, to any interested individual or group as requested.
A non medical withdrawal management centre offering a residential service, where a person can begin a rehabilitative process related to addiction/chemical dependency, including alcohol and/or other psycho active drugs (both prescription and street). This service is provided to males and females, 16 years of age and over who are intoxicated, in withdrawal, or in a crisis related to alcohol/drugs, and are suitable for non medical intervention. Provides a safe, caring, non threatening and empathetic environment. This is a co-ed, residential facility with 17 beds. Also have brief, short-term, supportive outpatient counselling.
Provides a comprehensive and integrated mental health and addiction service to clients aged 16 and over who are suffering from either an identified psychiatric illness or such distressing emotional and situational difficulties that they are presenting with symptoms of mental illness that render one or more significant areas of their lives dysfunctional.
The Mental Health and Addiction Program consists of several coordinated and integrated services which make up their service continuum. These include:
Crisis Services,
Inpatient Unit -Acute,
Outpatient Services (groups and brief counselling),
Medication Clinic,
Mental Health Support Services (case management and psycho-educational group programming)
Addiction Services
Simcoe County Eating Disorder Services and
Community Treatment Order Coordination Services.
Referral - medical (family doctor or psychiatrist, do not have to have privileges at RVH)
