Mental Health

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Mental HealthAddictions
Chilliwack Healthier Community Strategic Action
Plan
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Mental Health Addictions

• Will become leading health care issue in next 20
  years (WHO)
• 1 in 5 people will experience some form of mental
  disorder this year (Province)
• Connection between homelessness, addictions,
  mental health

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2008 FVRD Homeless Count

• 465 homeless in FVRD
• 98 in Chilliwack
• 64 reported an addiction
• 32 addiction other health problem
• 32 addiction only
• 33 reported a mental illness
• 25 mental illness other health problem
• 8 mental illness only

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Mental Health Services (FHA)

• Adult Mental Health Centre
• Adult Community Support Services
• Adult Short Term Assessment Treatment
• Group Therapy Services
• Concurrent Disorder Program
• Early Psychosis Intervention (13-35 yrs)
• Eating Disorder Clinician
• Geriatric Program

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Mental Health Services (FHA)

• Chilliwack General Hospital
• 14 bed psychiatric unit
• Crisis Residential Emergency Short Stay
• 10 beds (Abbotsford)
• Contract Services
• Programs (Communitas Supportive Care)
• Peer Support, Support Towards Employment,
  Wellness Recovery Action Plan
• Creative Centre Society
• Community living support workers clubhouse
• Aboriginal Mental Health Liasion Program (Stólo
  Nation Health Services)

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Resources

• Chilliwack Mental Health Advisory Committee
• Chilliwack Supportive Housing Society
• New Horizon Soceity Evening Weekend Support
  program
• Mood Disorders Group

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ChilliwackAddiction Prevention Services

• 200 needle exchange users
• 41 documented sex trade workers
• 1,562 active clients struggling with addiction
• Additional 3,120 contacts in last year

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Chilliwack Mental Health CentreCore Issues

• Increasing referrals
• Housing more affordable than Metro Vancouver
• Heavy caseloads
• 50 clients / clinician
• 130 referrals / month
• Focus on group work over individual counselling
• High incidence of depression anxiety

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Chilliwack Mental Health CentreCore Issues
Mental Health Challenges

• Lack of appropriate housing
• Outreach access for those in need of care
• Psychiatrist recruitment

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Housing current supply

• Chilliwack Mental Health
• 22 bed facility
• Transitional Living Program
• Supported Independent Living subsidies

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Housing - proposed
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Supportive Housing Needed

• low-barrier housing and/ or shelter
• Support recovery homes
• Licensed residential facilities
• Supported Independent Living Rental Subsidies
• Safe place to become sober - safety and policing
  concerns