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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1998-06-24, Page 513 11 13 D 13 13 D EI CAR & TRUCK RENTALS p O Division of Suncoast Ford 13 O 500 Huron Rd., Goderich 0 CALL COLLECT Ask for Helen ID 524-8347 o eeeeeeeeeeeeeeo ODDDDDDDDDDDDDDD 0 Huron County's Complete o VEHICLE 113 13 al rgTAd o° Headquarters o 0 0 Small & Mid-sized Cars E D0 Passenger & Cargo O 0 Vans, Pickup Trucks E O Daily, Weekly, Monthly iu 0 0lnsurance Rentals & 13 C16/ More 0 O Free Delivery v I] 0 CI CI 1] Ill Psychiatric services receives award BY CARLA-ANN OUD Signal -Star Staff For years, the Community Psychiatric Services of Goderich, Clinton Seaforth and Wingham have concentrated on the mental health needs of the community. Recently, the community it serves has shifted attention to the agencies. The Huron Branch of the Schizophrenia Society of Ontario, a support group for family and friends of those with the mental illness, nominated the Community Psychiatric Services for the first-ever Community Program Award. "I think they're quite a worthy one to get an award," said Dan Webster, secretary of support group. The support group's provincial head, the Schizophrenia Society of Ontario, listened. It gave the Community Psychiatric Services the award on June 6. People know what makes an outstanding program in their community; when the "grassroots" speak to nominate a program, it is significant, said Janice Wiggins, executive director of the Schizophrenia Society of Ontario. The award means something to Dr. Michael F Conlon. His push to bring psychiatric services to the community after the closure of the psychiatric hospital in Goderich resulted in the Community Psychiatric Services in four locations in Huron County. "I trust [the award] is a reflection of years [spent] developing psychiatry services in the community," said Conlon. He is the chief of psychiatry at Alexandra Marine and General Hospital in Goderich and an assistant professor at the University of Western Ontario in London. Growing from a branch in Wingham with three clients in 1977, Community Psychiatric Services now has locations in Clinton, Goderich and Seaforth and serves more than 700 clients with a range of serious mental illness, said Joy Daymond, the director of the Goderich and Clinton branches. Community Psychiatric Services serve people who are 16 years of age and older as outpatients for the department of psychiatry at Goderich's Alexandra Marine and General Hospital. Its location within the community is key. Years ago, there were few services like Community Psychiatric Services, said Conlon. Then, care for those with serious mental illnesses dissolved once they walked outside the hospital and into the community. Community Psychiatric Services changed that. Its presence in the community enables people with mental illnesses to lead productive lives in the community and helps them to avoid rehospitalization, said Conlon. Joy Daymond, director of the Goderich and Clinton branches, said government officials too have recognized the importance of having their psychiatric services within the community. Because Community Psychiatric Services offers care within the community, those who are discharged from a hospital stay here "don't get lost" in the Drastic cuts have been inflicted by government FROM Page 4 equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to the equal protection of the law. In this respect, the law shall prohibit any discrimination and guarantee to all persons equal and effective protection against discrimination on any ground such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.") In addition to the discrimination inherent in the funding of one denomination and no others, the Ontario government has inflicted drastic cuts to essential health care and social assistance. How has the Harris government justified the expense of religious privilege when so many vital services have been curtailed or withdrawn? If readers agree that a previous century's compromise regarding separate religious schools should be eliminated, as has been done in Manitoba, Newfoundland and Quebec, then they should actively make it an issue in the next election. Yours truly; Renton Patterson, President Friends of Public Education in Ontario Inc. V The Community Psychiatric Services of Goderich, Clinton, Seaforth and Wingham won the first-ever Community Program Award from the Schizophrenic Society of Onfario. Here, Dawn Wolfe of director of the Wingham branch, Dr. Michael F Conlon, Maureen Thomas, director of the Seaforth branch and Joy Daymond, director of the Goderich and Clinton branches celebrate the award. OUD PHOTO system, said Daymond. The story in the cities is very different. Maureen Thomas, director of the Seaforth branch stresses how the services focuses on the people they serve. "Part of the uniqueness [Community Psychiatric Services] is that we really listen to each individual when the first time they come. We look at what they want and what they need," she said. "They might just need someone to listen to them," added Daymond. Thomas said, "It's a lot of small things" that make the program work for people with mental illnesses and their families and friends. She noted how family and friends appreciate being able to call patients on the psychiatric floor of Alexandra Marine and General Hospital on a pay phone. That kind of access doesn't happen everywhere. Webster said he appreciated how the Community Psychiatric Services try to involve the family of the person with mental illness. Family involvement is important because often those with mental illness return to their family after being discharged from hospital as there are not any group homes within the area. Psychiatric illness affects not only the person with the illness, but also the family who lives with that person, Life Is rrlat yiw make IL SI.xmq , I lmhl.e, I W,.e .' nn.,Kn.n+ar�ee said Conlon. Thomas has seen the effects when she runs a a support group for family and friends of those with mental illnesses. ,She said families need to har that they are not responsible for a mental illness like schizophrenia; it's a chemical imbalance in the brain of the person with the illness and it's not anyone's fault. According to Webster's nomination letter, the inclusion of family in the treatment of a loved one helps. "I have noticed improvement in the everyday situation of many sufferers to the relief of family and friends," he wrote. He added, "The interaction of staff, families, sufferers helps provide quicker emergency response perhaps than in some larger cities and faster psychiatric appointments." At Community Psychiatric Services, Conlon.has made it a policy that clients are able to get help when they ask for it. "I won't permit waiting lists," he said. Dawn Wolfe, director of the Wingham branch, said, "At other places, people come for their appointments. Ours come when they come.' When clients come to Community Psychiatric Services they learn from staff and from each other, said Thomas. 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