ACRONYMS
Reconnect serves clients in the Toronto Central LHIN, which stands for this. In total there are 14 LHINs in Ontario.
What is Local Health Integration Network.
Skills training in Dialectical Behavioural Therapy consists of these four modules.
What are Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Interpersonal Effectiveness, and Emotion Regulation
This condition causes repetitive and involuntary movements in the body that can develop as a result of taking certain antipsychotic medications for long periods of time.
What is Tardive Dyskinesia
This subsidy allows low income individuals to access social recreation programs.
What is The Welcome Policy
This is where you will find the newest version of Reconnect's client contingency policy. It's also where you can view Reconnect’s internal information, events, important dates, and applications.
What is OneStop
The PPAO, short for this, provides education, advocacy services, and rights advice to individuals who have had their legal status changed to involuntary or incapable in both civil and forensic mental health systems.
What is Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office
This adapted eight-week program, developed by Zindel Segal, Mark Williams, and John Teasdale, is an evidence-based group therapy for preventing depressive relapse and treating mood disorders.
What is Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
Name two first generation or "typical" antipsychotics.
What are (any of) haloperidol (Haldol), fluphenazine (Modecate), zuclopenthixol (Clopixol), loxapine (Loxapac), flupentixol (Fluanxol), perphenazine (Trilafon)
Name three food banks in the Toronto area.
What are (any of) Daily Bread Food Bank, Haven on The Queensway, Parkdale Community Food Bank, The Stop, Frontlines, Salvation Army York Community Church
He is President on the Reconnect Board of Directors.
Who is Brian Schiller
The City of Toronto's OEM coordinates standard emergency response protocols and opens temporary ERCs.
What is Office of Emergency Management and Emergency Reception Centres
This psycho-social intervention commonly utilizes Thought Records to increase rationality.
What is CBT Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Name three classes of mental health medications.
What are (any of) antipsychotics, antidepressants, mood stabilizers, anti-anxiety medications (e.g., benzodiazepines, stimulants, central nervous depressants (for sleep), substance abuse medications (to aid with withdrawal, decrease use problems)
Catalogue of classes in which clients on social assistance pay only $10 per class per term.
What is TDSB Learn 4 Life
The South Toronto Link Team is partnered with this hospital to receive direct referrals to the program.
What is St. Joseph's Hospital
This tribunal has jurisdiction over individuals who have been found by a court to be either unfit to stand trial or not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder.
What is ORB - Ontario Review Board
This approach, developed in part by clinical psychologists William R. Miller and Stephen Rollnick, is a client-centered counseling style for eliciting behavior change by helping clients to explore and resolve ambivalence.
What is Motivational Interviewing
What are three “Rights” to check when dispensing medications to clients?
What are (any of) Right Client, Right Medication, Right Dose, Right Frequency, Right Time, Right Reason, Right Site, Right Route
Women can access programming such as residential treatment, individualized counseling, and trauma services through this organization.
What is Jean Tweed Centre
These two organizations have partnered with Reconnect to provide supportive housing to clients with complex needs.
What is Regeneration Community Services and Mainstay Housing
This is a widely used brief screening tool for detecting cognitive impairment.
What is MoCA - Montreal Cognitive Assessment
Name three techniques of Solution Focused Brief Therapy.
What is Miracle Question, Scaling, Coping Questions, Normalizing/Reframing, Exceptions Questions, Different questions, Compliments, Taking a break
Name two second generation or "atypical" antipsychotics.
What is (any of) olanzapine (Zyprexa), clozapine (Clozaril), aripriprazole (Abilify), quetiapine (Seroquel), risperidone (Risperdol), paliperidone (Invega)
This program helps adults with a developmental disability be involved in their communities by providing funding for community participation services, activities of daily living, and person-directed planning.
What is Passport Program
These four Health Services programs are not accessed through The Access Point, and do not accept direct referrals.
What is Forensic Case Management (CAMH), Streets to Homes (City of Toronto), Short Term Crisis Bed (CMHA Safe bed registry) Treat at Home (CANES Community Care)