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Here's a selection of what's new on camh.net:
 Staff Pocket Guide to Services For Families
A list of services provided by CAMH provides a variety of programs for families at each of its four main sites as well as
at satellite offices. Also, unless indicated otherwise, services are open to non-CAMH as well as CAMH client families.
 Addiction: An Information Guide
This guide was written for people who are having problems related to alcohol and other drug use, their families, and anyone
else wanting to gain a basic understanding of addiction, its treatment and management. Addiction can be hard to talk about...
We hope this guide helps you to understand what addiction is, what is thought to cause it, how it may affect your life, and
what you can do to change it.
Straight Talk: Methamphetamine - A new brochure in a series written directly for people who use the drug, or are at risk of using the drug in a harmful
way.
 Women and Alcohol
This booklet covers such topics as the physical and psychological effects of alcohol; alcohol, pregnancy and breastfeeding;
alcohol and other drugs; stress, safe drinking, women and drinking problems; other people’s drinking; and looking for support.
 Strengthening Families For The Future (excerpts)
Strengthening Families for the Future is a prevention program for families with children between the ages of seven and 11
who may be at risk for substance use problems, depression, violence, delinquency and school failure. Strengthening Families
is effective because it involves the whole family.
 Breakthrough Winter 2006-07
News about CAMH for clients, patients and families
CAMH’s Redevelopment Project Breaks Ground / Transforming Lives – One Client at a Time: Stephen’s Story / Picture This: ‘The
Working Life’ / One From the Heart – CAMH’s Speaker Series / CAMH Resources / CAMH’s Client Relations Service and Bill of
Client Rights / Culture Counts / CAMH and Toronto East General Hospital Team Up to Provide Withdrawal Management Program in
Scarborough.
 Anxiety Disorders : An Information Guide
This guide is for people with anxiety disorders, their families, partners, friends and anyone else who might be interested.
The many aspects of anxiety disorders discussed in this book will answer some common questions, and help readers discuss anxiety
disorders with treatment providers.
 Methadone Maintenance Treatment: Client Handbook
This book should answer many of the questions you may have about methadone treatment, and can help you to know what questions
you should ask your doctor, pharmacist, counsellor and others. It’s put together so that you can either dip into it, or read
it all at once, as you wish. There’s information here for those thinking about methadone treatment, for the new client and
the long-term client, and for families and friends. You can use this information to help you to understand and make decisions
about your treatment. You can use it to educate others. You can use it to help you to get well.
The Smoke-Free LTC Homes Project at CAMH
The Smoke-Free LTC Homes Project at CAMH is designed to provide education and support for LTC (Long Term Care) Homes in the
transition to a new and safer healthcare environment and to build capacity within the LTC Home sector to sustain smoke-free
environments...
 Having a party?
Great tips to lower your risks as a host
As a social host, you don’t have the same legal responsibilities as someone who runs a bar or tavern. But that’s not the whole
story. If you allow an alcohol-related event to be held on your property, if you host an alcohol related event on or off your
property, or if you provide the alcohol to others, you may have more legal responsibilities than you thought. Revised 2006.
New online resource helps keep Franco-Ontarians healthy
Family physicians and other healthcare providers with Francophone patients are now equipped with an exceptional new tool to
help them support those they care for with mental health and addiction problems. Developed by CAMH, reseaufranco.com is a unique bilingual web resource, online network and clearinghouse for addiction and mental health primary care professionals
serving francophone communities across Ontario.
The TEACH Project
The Training Enhancement in Applied Cessation Counselling and Health (TEACH) Project is designed to ensure that individuals in the public, private and non-profit sectors who provide counselling services to
tobacco users obtain knowledge and skill in the delivery of intensive cessation interventions. Our core program offers evidence
based knowledge about tobacco use and practical skills in cessation counselling. Our supplementary courses offer counselling
approaches for special populations such as aboriginal people, sexually diverse and gender diverse people, youth, people with
concurrent disorders, people who use other substances; and pregnant women. Courses run in Febuary 2007.
 Alcohol and Drug Problems: A Practical Guide For Counsellors (excerpts)
Alcohol and Drug Problems covers a broad range of counselling issues and provides practical guidance on meeting the needs of a diverse client population.
Written for both new and experienced counsellors, this fully revised and expanded third edition draws on up-to-date research
findings, clinical experience and case studies.
 Youth & Drugs and Mental Health: A Resource for Professionals (excerpts)
A package that includes material for working with youth who present concurrent mental health and substance use concerns, with information
on integrated treatment, screening, assessment, pharmacotherapy, motivational interviewing and First Contact: A brief intervention for young substance users with mental health problems. The First Contact component includes clinical materials such as session goals, therapist checklists and client handouts, to be used in four
individual or group sessions that can serve as a stand-alone treatment or a first step to more extensive treatment.
 Foundation Annual Report 2005-2006 (web version) / PDF version
Learn how CAMH is transforming lives today and tomorrow in the 2005-2006 Foundation Annual Report. Courageous clients, dedicated
staff, generous donors, devoted volunteers and a caring community together help to make the impossible inevitable in this
groundbreaking report.
Building the Path to Home: Links to sustainable housing for persons with a dual diagnosis in Toronto *
Housing is only sustainable for someone if they have a strong, caring safety net or support network. This guide includes information
about how to access housing, but it also talks about how to find all the pieces of support needed to make the housing situation
work.
*If the link won't open, you may have a pop-up blocker turned on. If you have administration rights and/or a browser program
that allows you to change the settings, more information on how to disable pop-up blockers is available from the University of Connecticut in a PDF document. If you are CAMH staff, you can also access the pages through
the remote access system (password required). We plan to replace the files as soon as possible with standard html web pages.
Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience in the meantime.
 Antisocial and Violent Youth: Volume II (excerpts)
Antisocial and Violent Youth: Volume II offers valuable summaries of the latest research findings from over 70 professional
scientific journals. Covering the literature from 1998 to 2002, these abstracts show more research on bullying, advances in
knowledge about risk and protective factors, and effective methods of prevention and treatment.
CAMH Connexions Special Edition September 2006
 Tranforming Lives 2006: More prominent Canadians fight stigma of mental illness and addiction
Released October 04, 2006
Three well-known Canadians have come forward to support the work of CAMH by sharing their personal experiences with mental
illness and addiction. Rex Harrington, Glen Grunwald and Taborah Johnson are lending their stories to CAMH’s Transforming Lives Public Awareness Campaign, which has been running since May 2005 in
print, and on radio and television and has prompted thousands of people to seek help through CAMH’s information line.
 Hear me, Understand me, Support me: What young women want to know about depression
Hear Me, Understand Me, Support Me explores the diverse challenges that young women experience in relation to depression;
prevention strategies; healthy helping relationships; the dos and don’ts of working with young women; and referrals and resources
that can provide more information. Each section has three key features: “Hear Me,” “Understand Me” and “Support Me.”
Substance Abuse Treatment for Young People - What you need to know
This pamphlet is for parents/guardians, relatives, teachers, friends and anyone who may be concerned about alcohol or other
substance use in a person under 25, and includes services available for young people in the Greater Toronto Area. This pamphlet
was developed by the Toronto Youth Addiction Cluster, representing a number of agencies serving youth with substance use issue,
including CAMH.
 Structured Relapse Prevention: An Outpatient Counselling Approach (Excerpts)
In the substance use treatment field, it is recognized that strategies used to initiate change are different from those used
to maintain change. With the goal of helping clients effectively maintain change in their substance use behaviours, we have
revised and expanded CAMH’s successful Structured Relapse Prevention: An Outpatient Counselling Approach. Structured Relapse Prevention (SRP) is a brief, cognitive-behavioural, manual-based counselling approach that is used in
a variety of settings. SRP is designed for people with moderate to severe substance dependence, and is typically delivered
in eight to 12 group or individual counselling sessions.
 The Culture Counts Project
The Culture Counts Project is a provincial project that aims to research, identify and develop a best practices model for
community education and knowledge exchange in mental health and addiction with culturally / linguistically diverse communities
to ensure that programs effectively meet the needs of these communities.
 Bridging responses: A front-line worker’s guide to supporting women who have post-traumatic stress
Many women who seek help from front-line services have experienced past violence and trauma. Often they do not recognize that
many of their difficulties might be associated with responses to complex post traumatic stress. Bridging Responses is a resource
for front-line staff who work with women - in health care, literacy, corrections, housing and community services. This book
offers information and tools to help recognize responses to post-traumatic stress in women’s lives, and to establish a level
of confidence that encourages women who have survived abuse and violence to consider referrals to appropriate services or
resources.
 First stage trauma treatment: A guide for health professionals working with women (excerpts)
Many women seek treatment for depression, chronic anxiety, substance use problems, self-harming behaviour, suicidal thoughts
and feelings of self-hate and emptiness. These problems are often responses to complex post-traumatic stress, associated with
chronic abuse and neglect in childhood. Many mental health professionals do not have the practical tools to provide the trauma
treatment that these women need. First Stage Trauma Treatment gives therapists key information and strategies to help women
clients develop fundamental skills to manage these responses.
 Treating Concurrent Disorders: A Guide for Counsellors
Table of Contents (PDF only), Preface and Introduction
If you work with clients who have substance use or mental health problems, you are undoubtedly already working with people
who have concurrent disorders. If you are committed to understanding and working with clients as whole persons, then you need
to understand what these problems are, how they co-occur and how you can help...With this book, our goal is to take information
about concurrent disorders beyond academic and scientific discourse, and to make it accessible to a wider range of readers.
We hope that counsellors across a diverse range of services will be better able to work with this client population, and that
people with co-occurring substance use and mental health problems will get the comprehensive care they need.
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March 23, 2007 1:19 PM
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