Mental Health and Addiction Services

Adult Community Services

Adult Community Services offer adults a referral to range of supports that may assist them in their recovery plans. The following dimensions are addressed with the client whose ability to function on a day to day basis has been seriously affected by their illness:

• Residential, including supports for Activities of Daily Living
• Prevocational
• Social/Recreational-including psychosocial education opportunities.

Adult Community Services also deliver other community supports for specific areas of need:

• Acute Community Mental Health Home Care
• Complex Case Protocol
• Addictions Services
• Acquired Brain Injury Program

Residential Services

• Respite Services - offer short term supervised care placement that offers temporary relief for caregivers. This service is limited to availability of spaces.
• Approved Home - settings provide room, board and care to clients in a private home setting. There are thirteen approved homes with fifty spaces.
• Supportive Apartment Living Program - provides a supervised facility staffed on a twenty four hour basis for persons who require intensive training in independent living skills; 4 spaces for intensive needs, 2 spaces for transitional needs, 12 spaces for occasional support needs. Services are delivered by Thunder Creek Rehabilitation Association.
• Independent Living Program - provides onsite life skills training to clients who choose to live in the community and require support to develop greater self reliance. Services are delivered by Thunder Creek Rehabilitation Association.
• Thunder Creek Rehabilitation Association is a Health Care Organization providing residential services, community supports and prevocational programs for Adults who experience severe mental illness. Address: Wakamow Place, 250 Manitoba Street East, Moose Jaw. Phone: 693-2814.

Prevocational Services

• Helping Initiatives for Hands-On Employment - is a supportive work training program for eight clients in the rehabilitation phase of their recovery. Contract work is performed with supervision and assistance. Clients share proceeds from the work they perform. Services are delivered by Thunder Creek Rehabilitation Association.
• Supportive Program for Employment in the Community - A transitional employment program intended to provide pre employment training and continuous supervision when on a work location for sixteen clients.

Social/Recreational Services

• Mental Health Resource Centre - provides a social, recreational program and a drop in component for adults who are in the rehabilitation and maintenance phase of their recovery.
• Seniors Socialization Program - offers the client who experiences later in life issues an opportunity to participate in activities outside of their residential setting. Caregivers of these clients have an opportunity for brief periods of respite. The clients are provided with assistance in meeting their medical and personal needs. Services are delivered by Thunder Creek Rehabilitation Association.

Acute Community Mental Health Home Care

The Home Care initiative is intended to support the acute care system by improving the capacity for early hospital discharge, to avoid/prevent re-admission and to avoid/prevent imminent admission. This short term service will provide case management, assessment and coordination of service and professional and home support.

Complex Case Protocol

The complex needs process is intended to provide effective human services that contribute to the well being of people with complex needs. This process usually involves several human services agencies and leads to a plan that promotes access to services to address the needs of the most vulnerable, building on the strengths of individual, families and communities.

Addictions Services

Addictions Services provides voluntary out-patient assessment and counseling to persons, adult or youth, who are experiencing problems related to alcohol or other drug use and/or gambling. Services are available to spouses, children, other family members and friends who have been affected by someone else's drinking, drug using or gambling behaviour. Programs include:

• Assessment and individual counselling to individuals experiencing substance use/abuse issues.
• Gambling - a designated problem gambling counselor works closely with Addiction Services and Gamblers Anonymous. The program provides assessment, referral and treatment for problem gambling.
• SGI Safe Driving program.
• Community Education Course.
• Day Treatment program.
• Satellite clinics in Assiniboia and Gravelbourg
• Public Education and Public Awareness.
• Moose Jaw Alcohol and Drug Society - is a Health Care Organization that operates the Angus Campbell Centre. This service offers 20 detoxification beds for people over the age of sixteen who seek assistance with withdrawal from alcohol and/or other drugs. Trained staff provide care and accommodation for periods of up to 14 days depending on client assessed needs. Location: Highway #1 East, Moose Jaw, SK.
  Phone: 693-5977 or 694-0866.

Acquired Brain Injury

This partnership program provides a coordinator that offers case management/coordination and consultation services to promote community integration and improved quality of life of the individual with ABI. The VON provides Independent Living Workers who participate in the coordination of services for clients with ABI and offer individualized direct care and support.