The Primary CONNECT Interprofessional Primary Care Team is a new partnership developed to expand access to primary care for individuals with mental illness/health-related concerns and/or substance use-related concerns and needs in West Toronto, downtown and East Toronto. The service will also provide clients with links to specialist services at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), where and when appropriate.
Services/Supplies Offered
- Outreach and engagement
- Comprehensive assessment
- Crisis intervention and stabilization
- Treatment planning
- Health education and promotion
- Access to harm reduction services
- Collaboration and integration with community providers
- Sessional Psychiatry services (CAMH) delivered at the CHCs (when appropriate and applicable)
- Psychiatric consultations
- Access to a Cultural Care Practitioner at Shkaabe Makwa, Clinical Services for Indigenous Patients
- Navigation between wider programming at CAMH (assisted by the Social Worker) and the CHCs (assisted by the Social Worker, Case Manager and/or Community Health Worker)