The Applied Behaviour Collaboration (ABC) Team is a non-urgent Addiction & Mental Health (A&MH) service that focuses on building staff capacity and supporting individuals under 65 with complex behavioral and/or mental health needs residing in Integrated and Supported Facility Living (ISFL) Contracted Services
Behavior and Psychiatry Stream:
The MHC and RN provides behavioural mental health support services which may include:
- client intervention based on assessed need
- skill building with staff (i.e. Specific to client’s diagnosis/behavior care plan; ABC will provide education in-services, staff training, on floor coaching and modelling of approaches/interventions)
- ongoing evaluation and follow up
- supporting ABC Clients during hospitalizations
- support Clients transitioning into and out of ISFL Contracted Services
- supporting the ABC Psychiatrist
The ABC Psychiatrist attached to our team provides non-urgent Psychiatry consultation with regular communication with the ABC RNs and MHCs
- provide indirect consultation and direct assessments in concert with the ABC RN & MHC
- psychiatry rounds occur twice a month
- provides direct Physician to Physician consultation/support
We do not assess for level of care, crisis support or capacity assessments