Our work is recovery-oriented and focuses on combating mental health problems, substance related and emotional disorders and helping vulnerable community members find and maintain safe, secure and affordable housing.
We provide assistance connecting with resources which includes: supportive housing, transitional housing, emergency shelter, information on better living skills and communication, social activities, peer support, stress reduction workshops and public education campaigns for the Community.
What is Psychosocial Rehabilitation?
Psychosocial rehabilitation (also termed psychiatric rehabilitation or PSR) promotes personal recovery, successful community integration and satisfactory quality of life for persons who have a mental illness or mental health concern. Psychosocial Rehabilitation services and supports are collaborative, person directed, and individualized, and are an essential element of the human services spectrum. They focus on helping individuals develop skills and access resources needed to increase their capacity to be successful and satisfied in the living, working, learning and social environments of their choice and include a wide continuum of services and supports. (PSR/RPS Canada, 2013).
It involves a step by step process to assist people to discover and recover meaningful roles in their life. The process involves the development of the right skills, resources, knowledge and supports that will enable a person to find satisfaction and success in their new role.
PSR approaches are evidence-based best and promising practices in the key life domains of Employment, Education, Leisure, Wellness and Basic Living Skills as well as Family Involvement and Peer Support and Peer Delivered services. Because of their demonstrated effectiveness and recovery orientation, these approaches should be widely available to people living with long term mental illness and/or substance use problems.