Events Calendar

Check out our Events Calendar for Programs and Services happening this month!

Provincial Mental Health Crisis Line now available

If you or someone you know is experiencing a crisis, there is help available at AVH and through a province-wide Mental Health Crisis Line.

Kings County Breastfeeding Peer Support Group starting in June

Starts June 13, running every Thursday from 10 am – noon at the Louis Millet Recreation Centre in New Minas.

Search Programs & Services

Annapolis Valley Health offers an extensive listing of programs and services to help you be healthy and stay healthy. To learn more, browse or search through our Program & Services listing.

Events Calendar

Check out our AVH Events Calendar to find an event in your community.

Redefine. Rebuild. Reconnect

Visit our tri-district website featuring Changing our Picture of Health a series of videos and tools to help you understand (or facilitate) the social determinants of health.

For Health Professionals

Mental Health and Addictions Services strives to provide support to other professionals serving the same population.

We are working to make our site more accessible to you and if you have any ideas, we'd love to hear them.

Referrals

If you would like to refer a client or patient to AVH Mental Health and Addiction Services, please contact us. We are working on an e-referral site and it will be coming soon.

Psychiatry

For a description of Psychiatry Services, please click here.

Services

For a complete listing of AVH Mental Health and Addiction Services, please click here.

To view our organizational chart, please click here.

Calendar

To view our calendar – which includes upcoming events, group sessions and workshops, click here.

Concurrent Disorders

Often there are both mental health and addition issues for your patients. It can sometimes be difficult to know to which part of the service to refer. Our staff in Mental Health and Addiction Services work together to ensure that support and treatment are seamless and that ‘any door is the right door’. When the treatment indicates, clinicians from both parts of the service collaborate in client care

Health Resources for Health Professionals

The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test: Guidelines for Use in Primary Care, World Health Centre 2001 http://whqlibdoc.who.int/hq/2001/who_msd_msb_01.6a.pdf

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

http://www.camh.net/Publications/CAMH_Publications/women_abuse_trauma_infoguide.html

A Primary Care Toolkit for Health Professionals

http://knowledgex.camh.net/primary_care/toolkits/addiction_toolkit/Pages/default.aspx

Mental Health Assessments and information

A good website we recommend for health care providers that will “increase… awareness and understanding of the epidemiology, symptoms and identification of some common mental health conditions as well as provide examples of some recommended treatments”

http://www.shared-care.ca/toolkits

Conferences

Top National Conferences in the Field of Mental Health and Addictions

Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse
Issues of Substance National Conference http://www.issuesofsubstance.ca/

Collaborative Canadian Mental Health Care Conference
http://www.shared-care.ca