Inpatient mental health services are mental health services provided when a person is admitted to a hospital and stays in the hospital for at least 24-hrs. Inpatient services can be helpful in certain types of emergencies situations, or when less intensive services (such as outpatient treatments) have not been successful.

Outpatient Mental Health Services is where a person receives services by going to an office or clinic, without having to stay overnight in a hospital. Services can be "hospital-based", and delivered through a hospital, or they may be "community-based" and delivered outside of a hospital.

This is a list of agencies and organizations that offer counselling and/or therapy services.

Assertive Community Treatment is a client-centered, recovery-oriented mental health service delivered by multidisciplinary treatment teams, designed to provide comprehensive, community-based psychiatric treatment, rehabilitation, and support to persons with serious and persistent mental illness such as schizophrenia.

ACT Team programs are for people who have not benefitted from traditional outpatient programs.

Because one of the main goals is to help keep people living in their homes in the community (rather than in hospital), ACT programs are usually reserved for people who have had excessive, prolonged stays in hospitals.

Mental illness can make it hard for people to work. Clubhouses provide a safe environment where individuals coping with mental illness can find meaningful work as well as an opportunity to make friends and socialize with others.

Community health and resource centres provide a variety of health services to local residents, which often includes mental health services. Services provided by each health centre vary, depending on local community needs. Contact your local community health centre to find out about any counselling, groups or other mental health programs they might have.

Day Treatment refers to an intensive type of outpatient services that is more intensive than standard outpatient services (e.g. seeing someone once every 1-2 weeks) but yet is not as intensive as an inpatient stay.

For children and youth, day treatment programs may occur at therapeutic school programs, or take place at hospitals. For adults, day treatment programs are commonly offered at hospitals.

Drop-in centres are a place to go during the daytime and/or evenings, providing companionship and activities to do.

This section has Community Mental Health Services that do not specifically fit into any of the other more specialized categories.

Refers to supports and services provided in the person's home.

Most hospitals have mental health services which may include Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Social Workers and other professionals. Programs offered typically include:

• Outpatient programs, where one comes to the hospital for mental health services;
• Day treatment, or partial hospitalization programs, where a person comes for treatment for longer periods or more frequently, for more intensive therapy than one would receive from simply seeing an outpatient therapist or clinician;
• Inpatient programs, where a person is admitted to hospital in order to provide a high level of supervision and care until the condition improves enough so that the person can be treated as an outpatient.
  

Case management is where a case manager meets with the client (an individual or a family) in order to find out what services are needed. Then, the case manager helps arranges for those services and supports in the community. Service coordination refers to the fact that the different services are coordinated in an efficient way to best help the person.

Residential treatment (which includes group homes) refers to programs where individuals live in a therapeutic environment in the community (i.e. not in a hospital), receiving a structured, supervised treatment program. Residential treatment provides 24-hr care with counselling, therapy and trained staff, and is recommended when other, less intense treatments are not possible, or when they have not been effective. Residential treatment works best when family members are involved as well.