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OSP Group Booster Sessions
The Ontario Structured Psychotherapy (OSP) program offers monthly Group Booster Sessions to provide continued support for depression and anxiety-related conditions. These Group Booster Sessions are for clients who have successfully completed a round of OSP treatment. View Available Session Dates OSP... -
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Ontario Shores Recovery College
Recovery College courses provide education about mental illnesses, treatment options, wellness and ultimately discovering or rediscovering passions, hope, and meaning. The Recovery College complements professional assessment and treatment by helping people to understand their challenges and learn... -
My Story. My Voice.
This service is designed to create and facilitate mutually beneficial opportunities for patients of Ontario Shores to share their recovery journeys in a variety of forums. Sharing recovery stories is beneficial for the story teller as it can help make sense of the events that have occurred in their... -
Support for Families and Friends
As a family member and/or caregiver, we understand that your loved one's illness can also have a significant impact on you. We recognize that an essential part of an individual's recovery is the support and care of families and friends, so we would like to extend this support to you. Ontario Shores... -
Adolescent Outpatient Services
In partnership with our patients, Ontario Shores provides specialized recovery focused outpatient programs and services. The Adolescent outpatient program is an outpatient mental health assessment and treatment clinic for young people aged 12 to 18 living in Durham Region. Referrals are preferred... -
Adolescent Day Treatment
The adolescent day treatment program at Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences (Ontario Shores) provides mental health and education services in a local community high school to support students as they transition into a community setting. -
Eating Disorders Unit (EDU)
The Eating Disorders Unit (EDU) is a 12 bed inpatient unit for adolescents struggling with an eating disorder. It provides an interprofessional model of care with a focus on recovery and rehabilitation. The unit includes individual patient bedrooms, kitchen, dining room and lounge area. There are... -
Service and Spirit Will Live On as PHP Era Comes to an End
People are at the centre of everything we do at Ontario Shores. Our duty is to support and treat people living with mental illness while providing them with the tools to live a meaningful life in the community. And how do we do that? By relying on people. People who choose to work at Ontario Shores... -
#NVW2021 - 'I can continue to encourage others to share their story'
I began volunteering at Ontario Shores three years ago without any clear goals of where I wanted to end up or what area I would fit best in. Eventually, I began volunteering in Recovery College which focuses on providing education about mental illness, treatment, passion, hope and meaning. This is... -
#NVW2021 - 'The Experience Meant the World to Me'
Many people choose to volunteer to give back to a cause or organization that has a personal meaning for them and this is especially true for me. In 2014 I realized that I was not dealing well with my mental health and decided to get help for the depression and social anxiety I was dealing with... -
Ontario's Roadmap to Wellness
To be successful, Ontario's Roadmap to Wellness needs a comprehensive and fully-funded plan to reduce wait times: combined statement from Ontario’s mental health and addiction providers. The province’s leading public providers of adult, child and youth mental health and addiction care agree that the... -
COVID-19: Understanding the Six Stages of Change
It’s hard to make a change of any kind. We were all forced to drastically change our lives over the past three months and making slow changes back from this new normality also won’t be an easy process. But when we choose to make a change, there’s been an overarching theory in psychology for years... -
Great Care Includes Family Intervention Therapy
I am proud to officially welcome our Family Intervention Therapy (FIT) trained clinicians! Committed to providing exemplary care to our patients and families, Ontario Shores is proud to have played a significant role in developing the Quality Standards for Mental Health, which were recently unveiled... -
Metabolic Clinic Focused on Long-Term Lifestyle Changes
A number of stories related to mental health will be told in the days leading up to Bell Let’s Talk Day, which is scheduled for January 25. Many of those stories will point to the need to treat mental health as important as we treat physical health. This is a common message and one that we often... -
Unlock the Potential of Food
March is Nutrition Month and across Canada, Registered Dietitians are spreading the word to promote healthy eating. This year’s Nutrition Month theme is: Unlock the Potential of Food. We want to help Canadians realize the potential of food to fuel, discover, prevent, heal and bring us together. The... -
Answering a 'Grand Challenge' for the Mental Health Care Sector
The bar is being raised for mental health care providers in terms of the quality of care received by people living with mental illness. At its annual Health Quality Transformation Conference last month in Toronto, Health Quality Ontario (HQO) unveiled its first three Quality Standards in an effort... -
‘My Mental Illness Didn’t Stop Me’ - Raheman
When Raheman was 16, he began experiencing hallucinations and paranoia. He thought people had put implants in his head and uploaded his brain to a computer and could read his mind. Raheman believed that, as a result of being bullied, kids at school were trying to poison him. Quite frequently, this... -
'My Mental Illness Didn't Stop Me' - Cody
Popular, personable and an elite level athlete, in the eyes of many Cody was living the dream. “I come from a great family,” says Cody before participating in a group at Ontario Shores’ Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP). “I had a great childhood, I had friends and all that.” It was in his... -
Ontario Shores Launches Journal of Recovery in Mental Health
Recovery-oriented practice has been a driving force in the way we deliver our programs and services here at Ontario Shores. Our goal is to provide an environment of discovery and hope that supports and enhances our patients’ sense of individual recovery from mental illness. Ontario Shores continues... -
Serious About Schizophrenia - Recovery is Possible
Forensic psychiatry is a subspecialty of psychiatry. It focuses on assessing and treating people with severe mental illness who have become involved with the criminal justice system. Psychiatrists in this field are trained to assess these people and to help them recover from their active symptoms... -
Oshawa Family Grateful for Support of Loved One Living with Alzheimer's Disease
Paul Szakacsi was 21 when he arrived in Canada from his native Hungary eager to build the life he dreamed of. Already a machinist by trade, Paul worked at General Motors (GM) for a decade before he began to design and fabricate his own products and started Rider Tool and Manufacturing Co. in Oshawa... -
Big White Wall Offers Online Support for People Struggling with Mental Illness
Each day I am amazed by the difference Ontario Shores makes in the lives of people living with mental illness. Our commitment to recovery is evident in everything we do. The collective passion to provide the best possible care for patients and their families is what sets this organization apart. I’m... -
Ontario Shores and Mozzaz Merge Patient Engagement and Care Planning
Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences (Ontario Shores) and Mozzaz, a digital health company based in Waterloo, Ontario, are proud to formally announce the launch of an innovative mobile mental health app for patients. Ontario Shores, a specialty mental health hospital in Whitby, Ontario...