The Canadian Mental Health Association has teamed up with Southlake Regional Health Centre in Newmarket to launch a new multi-disciplinary mental health service.
Clients will now be able to receive services almost anywhere a client feels comfortable, from their home to a coffee shop or a local park.
The services will be provided by an “Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT).
“We need to be able to treat people with the right service, at the right time, at the right place,” says York-Simcoe Canadian Mental Health Association CEO Rebecca Shields.
The goal is to make mental health more accessible and reduce the need to visit a hospital.
“This does help keep those patients out of the hospital, and that’s where you want to be. You want to be at home, and you want to be in the community,” says Paul Cappuccio, the Director of Mental Health at Southlake Regional Health Centre.
The program in South Simcoe is still in its very early stages, but once it’s completely up and running the ACTT team will help sixty people in the region develop their own personal roads to recovery.
