Disorders Building a Community of Support并发疾病建立一个社区的支持课件.pptVIP

Concurrent Disorders: A Community Response Allison Potts, MSW, RSW Concurrent Disorders System Integration Consultant Pinewood Centre of Lakeridge Health apotts@lakeridgehealth.on.ca A plan for today: Check in for shared starting point The Who The What of change Provide overview of current research, its key findings and limitations Review Best practices for CD and Models for understanding CD Discuss CD Capability and how to enhance it within agencies and across the system Profile the CD Network of Durham Region Explore opportunities for CD System building – “take home messages” Who is included? Community? Service providers and service consumers The broad community – all citizens System? Addictions Mental Health (youth adult) Hospitals Police Health and Social Services Departments School Boards Shelter/Housing Support System Mutual Aid organizations Community Health Centres And on Any Face Can Be The Face of Concurrent Disorders Kurt Cobain What happens… when the “system” does not provide good service to individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance use problems? when the system does provide good service to this population? What Are Concurrent Disorders and why is this issue so important? Concurrent Disorders (CD) refers to cases where individuals have any combination of mental health and substance use disorders The number of people affected by mental health and substance use problems is substantial and individuals with CD have reported that treatment is disjointed and unwelcoming Concurrent Disorders are associated with high rates of attrition, missed appointments, costly treatment, poor medication compliance, relapse and readmissions Current Research on CD Prevalence, What Do We Do?, What is Best to Do? Prevalence in the Population you work with? Varies by setting Varies by psychiatric diagnosis Varies by exclusion criteria The prevalence has often been underestimated and frequently was not explored or screened for at all Prevalence of C