Mental Health Program

This is a short term case management program that offers support to individuals 16 years of age or older. This project aims to identify complex mental health needs in a timely manner in hopes of reducing unplanned repeat visits to hospital emergency departments. Clients receive services for three to six months and then transitioned to our long term case management program. This program accepts referrals from hospitals and health links.

This program is offered to clients who are 16 years of age or older. This is a long term case management program that provides support to individuals and their family members for illnesses related to the mind. Clients are welcome to stay within the program on a long term basis until client needs have been met. We accept referrals from all sources.

This is a case management program that offers support to individuals who require early intervention support for first episode psychosis or health concerns regarding mental illnesses within the past two years. We offer services to clients between the ages of 14 to 37 years. We accept referrals from all sources.

This program provides culturally and linguistically appropriate case management supports to individuals living with complex addictions and mental health issues and to their significant others. Services include, individualized assessment, care planning, supportive counseling, service co-ordination (linking service recipients with services and supports), and specific interventions related to concurrent disorders.

PCHS has started new partnership with Canadian Mental Health Association, Peel Dufferin (CMHA PD). There are two Crisis Support workers to serve clients on Crisis Support Line in collaboration with CMHA PD Mobile Community Rapid Response Team (MCRRT). They provide crisis intervention as an immediate and short-term emergency response to mental, emotional, physical, and behavioral distress. Crisis interventions through a crisis support line help to restore an individual’s equilibrium to their biopsychosocial functioning and minimize the potential for long-term trauma or distress.

The Sahara Concurrent Disorder Support Group is a linguistically and culturally appropriate psychoeducational group program. It aims to educate and support individuals and their caregivers to cope with the challenges they are facing as a result of their mental health and addiction issues.

• This Group offers:
  Interactive group discussions
  Educational activities
  Collaboration with agencies/partners who specialize in addictions and mental health services
  On-going support to clients and their caregivers

Who Are We?
PCHS is dedicated to providing services to the communities that we serve. The mobile community support group is made up of professionals specializing in mental disorders who work in partnership with other community allies. We represent a variety of cultures within the South Asian communities and are skilled in delivering culturally sensitive programs and presentations.

What Do We Do?
We inform, coordinate and facilitate engaging educational presentations in diverse institutions such as schools, corporate offices and community centres. The MCSG provides youth and adults with practical information and skills that they can apply in their daily lives.

• Objectives of Mobile Community Support Group:
  Increasing awareness on Mental Health
  Strengthening and empowering the community to support those who are experiencing mental illness concerns.
  Eliminate stigma regarding mental illness and stereotypes within the community
  Connecting individuals and families to access programs & mental health resources available within the community.

PCHS is a Service Delivery Site (SDS) in Brampton /Mississauga communities to provide culturally competent care to clients with fidelity to the program model. The Ontario Structured Psychotherapy (OSP) program provides access to evidence-based, short-term, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and related approaches to people experiencing mild-to-severe anxiety, depression or other anxiety-related conditions (e.g., posttraumatic stress). This program is publicly funded, and there are no costs to the participants who will receive support under the OSP program.

The program offers Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) to individuals experiencing and is not limited to depression and low mood, generalized anxiety and worry, unexpected panic attacks and agoraphobic fears, social anxiety, performance fears, specific fears, health anxiety, obsessive-compulsive concerns, other anxiety and stress-related problems and post-traumatic stress. The program follows the regional psychotherapy networks as a coordinated provincial program. Clinicians in this program receive extensive training in CBT and CPT, including weekly individual and biweekly group clinical case consultations.