Description
Vancouver community adult mental health and substance use (MHSU) teams are designed to be neighbourhood-based in order to encourage collaboration and partnerships with local community services, including family physicians and other care providers. Clients and families can access a range of integrated mental health, substance use, or both mental health and substance use services.
These mental health and substance use services can include individual sessions, group programs, clinic-based appointments, virtual appointments and outreach, and are available on a short or longer-term basis.
Team services support people to transition to other community-based supports, including family physicians and other care providers. At the time of transition from services, clients may have achieved some or all of their self-identified goals, which could include:
- improved quality of life,
- developed new skills,
- reduced symptoms,
- reduced substance use,
- reduced self-stigma, and
- increased independence, community connectedness, and engagement in meaningful activities.
Products/Services
- Service providers include:
- case manager (registered nurse, registered psychiatric nurse, social worker, clinical counsellor, occupational therapist),
- concurrent disorder clinician (social worker, clinical counsellor),
- employment counsellors,
- family support and involvement coordinator,
- health care worker,
- nurse who specializes in substance use medicine,
- occupational therapist (OT),
- peer worker,
- physician who specialize in substance use medicine,
- psychiatrist and
- recreation therapist.