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Mental Health Services in
Hastings & Prince Edward
Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office
As a community-based mental health agency,
Mental Health Services help people over the age of 16 who have a
mental illness or mental health concerns. Because they are funded by the
Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, their services are free.
They work with people who have Schizophrenia, Depression,
Bipolar Disorder, Personality Disorder, Severe Anxiety, Dementia,
Alzheimer's disease, or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Services
include Case Management, Counselling, Court Diversion, Hospital Liaison,
Housing, Social and Recreational programs, Support Groups, Client
Advocacy, and Family Support and Education.
A referral may be made by the person that is requesting
service or by a friend, family member, doctor, social worker, etc. as
long as that person has consented to the referral. To make a
referral for mental health and/or addictions support, please call
Open Line, Open Mind
at
310-OPEN (6736). They are
open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Office Locations
The
Psychiatric Patient
Advocate Office (PPAO) was established in 1983 to protect the civil
and legal rights of inpatients in the current and former Ontario
provincial psychiatric hospitals. They provide advocacy services to
individual patients (instructed and non-instructed), addresses
facility-based or provincial systemic issues impacting on patients'
rights, rights advice services, public and health care professional
education through speaking engagements, publishing reports and media
releases.
The PPAO hosted a
series of free workshops across Ontario in Fall 2006 regarding mental
health legislation. Of interest to clients, families, caregivers, health
practitioners and service providers, the workshops were held in
Hamilton, Kingston, London, Ottawa, Thunder Bay, Toronto and Windsor.
Presentation materials are available on
the PPAO website.
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This site provides general information only,
specific to Ontario, Canada. It is
NOT legal advice. 
