Adding voice.
Adding insight.
Adding impact.

The Mental Health + Addictions Alliance brings together community health organizations that build innovative solutions to transform care.

We add voices, leadership, solutions, insight and impact to integrated care pathways. Meet the community health organizations who make up the Alliance:

Adding Voice

MH+A Alliance establishes partnerships with political, health, social and local leaders to create policies to support individuals living with mental health and addictions. We leverage the best possible data information systems and key metrics to support collaboration, decision-making, and best practices for mental health and addiction services.

We create solutions to inform system issues and problems. For example, our shared EMR system for Halton brings solutions and proposals to meetings.

Adding Insight

Expanding access to primary care to people who need it most

#harmreduction, #accessibility, #addiction, #communityhealth, #housing

Voice, Impact, Leadership, Insight, Solutions

Expanding access to primary care to people who need it most

#harmreduction, #accessibility, #addiction, #communityhealth, #housing

Voice, Impact, Leadership, Insight, Solutions

Support House, with the Connected Care Halton Ontario Health Team (CCHOHT), Halton Physicians Association, Oakpark/Churchill Neighbourhood Centre, the Mental Health + Addictions Alliance, and people with lived experience, including family and caregivers, has been granted funding through the Interprofessional Primary Care Team (IPCT) to form an Enhanced Primary Care Pathways and Integrated Care (EPPiC) Team that expands and enhances vulnerable populations’ access to primary care in Halton.

#harmreduction, #accessibility, #addiction, #communityhealth, #housing

Voice, Impact, Leadership, Insight, Solutions

Voice, Insight, Solutions, Leadership, Impact

Adding voice. Adding insight. Adding impact.

Voice, Insight, Solutions, Leadership, Impact

In the ever-evolving landscape of mental health and addiction care, collaboration and an integrated approach are essential to ensuring people in need don’t slip through the cracks.

Voice, Insight, Solutions, Leadership, Impact

Breaking Barriers through Mental Health and Wellness Programs

#communityhealth, #accessibility, #wellness

Voice, Leadership, Solutions, Impact, Insight

Breaking Barriers through Mental Health and Wellness Programs

#communityhealth, #accessibility, #wellness

Voice, Leadership, Solutions, Impact, Insight

Individuals in Halton grappling with mental health challenges encounter formidable barriers when trying to engage with their community through social recreation programs. With the generous support of TD, Summit Housing & Outreach aims to overcome these obstacles and extend its Health & Wellness programs to aid more vulnerable community members.

#communityhealth, #accessibility, #wellness

Voice, Leadership, Solutions, Impact, Insight

#healthpathways, #accessibility, #communityhealth, #partnership, #digitalcare

Voice, Leadership, Impact, Solutions, Insight

A digital healthcare pathway

#healthpathways, #accessibility, #communityhealth, #partnership, #digitalcare

Voice, Leadership, Impact, Solutions, Insight

The Halton Digital Health Care Pathway will create an interoperable system for patient/client flow across hospitals, community-based providers and physician practitioners for people accessing mental health, substance use and addiction services.

#healthpathways, #accessibility, #communityhealth, #partnership, #digitalcare

Voice, Leadership, Impact, Solutions, Insight

#housing, #harmreduction, #communityhealth

Voice, Leadership, Impact, Insight, Solutions

Everyone deserves housing

#housing, #harmreduction, #communityhealth

Voice, Leadership, Impact, Insight, Solutions

Halton’s new Housing First Response Team will connect with people who are unhoused, have mental health and substance use concerns and are in need of crisis support and wrap-around services.

#housing, #harmreduction, #communityhealth

Voice, Leadership, Impact, Insight, Solutions

Online gambling stats reveal concerning trend

#addiction, #harmreduction, #person-centric support, #policy, #communityhealth

Voice, Leadership, Impact, Solutions, Insight

Online gambling stats reveal concerning trend

#addiction, #harmreduction, #person-centric support, #policy, #communityhealth

Voice, Leadership, Impact, Solutions, Insight

Data released in October by iGaming Ontario (iGO) shows a 132 percent increase in the number of wagers on internet gaming sites compared to the same three-month period last year.

#addiction, #harmreduction, #person-centric support, #policy, #communityhealth

Voice, Leadership, Impact, Solutions, Insight

Leveraging lived experience gaining work experience

#recovery, #peersupport, #person-centric support, #employment

Voice, Leadership, Impact, Solutions, Insight

Leveraging lived experience gaining work experience

#recovery, #peersupport, #person-centric support, #employment

Voice, Leadership, Impact, Solutions, Insight

So often, “what we do” influences “who we are,” which is why studies show that meaningful work improves the quality of life. Unfortunately, people with mental illness and addiction issues can experience unique challenges re-entering the workforce and re-discovering that sense of dignity, independence, quality of life, and purpose.

#recovery, #peersupport, #person-centric support, #employment

Voice, Leadership, Impact, Solutions, Insight

Adding Solutions

We’re creating a narrative of the human experience in the healthcare system to help providers, funders, and community leaders. Our approach includes:

An Integrated Data Storyboard that illustrates the client experience through data. The work will involve a partnership with KPMG to build the required indicators.

A Client Pathway through multiple client services for support in the community. The story would show the opportunities to coordinate service design and funding.

A Population Health Map to integrate and better understand health issues to support care outside the common access points. (e.g., Care Value Delivery chain)

Adding Leadership

We’re influencing system changes impacting individuals living with mental health and addictions, including:

Co-Design of Client Services to identify, design, and co-create client services and staff training. This work will provide defined and measurable services to clients in the community.

Staff Training to coordinate our collective staff and their skills.

Sector Leadership to collaborate, coordinate, and define emerging governance and senior management opportunities to work together.

Collective Action Work to support a systematic approach to work. For example, Human Services Justice Coordinating Work.

Engagement Focus for clients, families, caregivers and other stakeholders.

$32.7M footprint in Halton

· 122,504 combined agency visits

· 13,881 people served

· Value of supportive housing assets: $23.9M

· 242 full time employees

· $148,922 collective funds raised

· 22,888 total in-patient/resident days

· 20,852 group participants

· $32.7M footprint in Halton · 122,504 combined agency visits · 13,881 people served · Value of supportive housing assets: $23.9M · 242 full time employees · $148,922 collective funds raised · 22,888 total in-patient/resident days · 20,852 group participants ·

Adding Impact

Everything is not OK. 74% of Ontarians experienced an increase in mental health and substance use challenges during the pandemic. People have lost their jobs. Kids are trying to re-integrate into social experiences after not seeing their friends. Seniors have been isolated from their loved ones. At-risk populations are being overlooked. Healthcare workers are at the breaking point.

The experience in Halton is not unique, but it is distinct. The organizations that make up the MH+A Alliance are adding their voice, insights and experience so we can improve access to support and services for those who need urgent care. Those changes are happening thanks to us working together.