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HEALTH
AND COMMUNITY SERVICES
ST. JOHN'S REGION
Health
and Community Services - St. John's Region services the geographic
region extending from St. Shott's on the Southern Shore to Conception
Bay South, the north east Avalon, St. John's, Mount Pearl and
Bell Island. The population of this region is more than 180,000.
SERVICES
MENTAL
HEALTH & ADDICTIONS SERVICES
Mental Health & Addictions Services provides services designed
to improve the mental health of individuals in our community
and to promote awareness of and recovery from a variety of addictions.
This program provides around the clock telephone and in-person
counselling services to individuals in crisis through the Mental
Health Crisis Centre - (1-888-737-4668). The services we
offer to prevent and treat addictions include public education,
individual and family and group treatment services for persons
with an alcohol, drug or gambling problem. A 20-bed Recovery
Centre is available to individuals who are experiencing withdrawal
from alcohol, street drugs or prescription medication.
CHILD,
YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES
The Child, Youth and Family Services program provides a variety
of services to children, young people and their families through
two main program streams:
Child and Family Services, and Youth and Family Services.
CHILD
AND FAMILY SERVICES
The Child and Family Services program focuses on promoting the
safety, well being and protection of children and supporting
the capacity of families and our communities to provide for
the health and well being of children. The core services offered
by this program include:
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Investigation
and assessment of allegations of child abuse and neglect. |
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Prevention
and treatment of abuse and neglect through provision of
a variety of individual and family counselling, therapy
and supportive services. |
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Recruitment,
training and provision of support to caregivers (formerly
known as Foster Parents) of children who are unable to live
with their families. |
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Promotion
of reunification of families where children have been removed
through the provision of counselling, supervised access
and therapeutic services. |
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Coordinating
the adoption process and the provision of support and
information to adoptees and birth parents. |
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Information
sharing and referral to other community resources that
promote healthy child development and parenting. |
YOUTH
AND FAMILY SERVICES
The focus of this program is to ensure that young people have
the support and interventions they require to make the healthy
transition from adolescence to adulthood. The core services
offered through this program include:
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Residential
and income support services for young people (16-18) who
are not able to remain with their families. |
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Counselling
and therapeutic services for young people and their families
who are encountering a variety of social and psychological
challenges |
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Community
based supervision and support for young offenders who
are on probation and community residential services for
young people through open custody. |
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Arranging
victim-offender medication and a variety of alternative
measures to youth through a volunteer supported Youth
Diversion Board. |
COMMUNITY
LIVING AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES
Community Living and Supportive Services is an amalgamation
of the former programs of the Family and Rehabilitation Services
and Continuing Care. The primary client group served by Community
Living and Supportive Services includes individuals of all
age groups with either physical or developmental disabilities,
or both, and those affected by deinstitutionalization. As
well, the program responds to the needs of individuals requiring
acute health care and support services and access to long
term care placement.
The
program and service areas are divided into three divisions,
which include Residential Services, Supportive Services and
Licensing and Regulatory Services.
The
Residential Services component includes administering
the Alternate Family Care program, group homes, community
residential living arrangements, transition houses and the
Right Futures Project. The Supportive Services division
includes financial, home support and transportation services,
our Behavioral Intervention Services, as well as administering
the Single-entry into Long-term Care program, the Neglected
Adults Act and the Special Assistance Program.
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Licensing
and Regulatory Services
include the monitoring of care standards and subsidy approvals
for the Personal Care Home Program and the licensing and approvals
of Home Support Agencies. The division also administers a
number of Services Contracts such as our contract with the
Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) and meals on wheels.
HEALTH PROMOTION
The Health Promotion Program develops, delivers and maintains
a wide range of health promotion and illness prevention services
for all ages. Activities are supported that assist individuals,
groups and communities in promoting healthy lifestyle practices
and prevention of illness and injury. Health Promotion staff
work in areas of parent and child health, nutrition, reproductive
and adult health education.
HEALTH
PROTECTION
The Communicable Disease Control program has an ongoing legislative
responsibility in disease surveillance activities and also
includes activities that promote prevention, early detection,
prompt treatment And follow up of communicable diseases. In
our Environmental Health Program area we evaluate the circumstances
in our environment that influence of have the potential to
influence the health of the population.
HEALTH
& COMMUNITY SERVICES TEAMS
We have developed a team approach for the delivery of many
of our services. Teams consist of nurses, social workers, counselors, nutritionists, physiotherapists, and occupational
therapists as well as those who deliver laboratory services
and mental health and addictions services.
Our teams are either geographically based or work through
liaison with the region's hospitals. Together these teams
provide a variety of services to client, their families and
their communities. This interdisciplinary approach involves
the provision of health and community based services in a
community development framework.
DID
YOU KNOW?
| A
baby boy born in Newfoundland and Labrador can
expect to live 75.0 years, while a baby girl will
usually outlive him by a little more than five
years to an age of 80.5 years. |
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CONTACT
INFORMATION
Telephone: (709) 738-4800
Fax: (709) 738-4930
MAILING ADDRESS
Health and Community
Services - St. John's Region
20 Cordage Place
P.O. Box 13122
St. John's, NF A1B 4A4
INTERNET:
www.commhealth.nf.ca
E-MAIL:
marthamuzychka@hcssjr.nf.ca
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