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Contact our Fraser Health Access Line: Mental Health and Substance Use (Home of Access Central for Substance Use Services). We will help you connect with the service that best fits your needs.
- Call us at 1-833-866-6478 or
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A bed-based mental health facility for adults who require short-term mental health support, psychiatric care and stabilization.
The Community Response Emergency Short Stay Treatment (CRESST) program is a 24-hour community bed-based mental health service. CRESST is available to adults (19+) who would benefit from short-term treatment and support for their mental health. This is a voluntary program for individuals who are able and willing to accept mental health treatment and support in a setting where clients can come and go as they like.
CRESST helps clients access mental health support when challenges at home become difficult to manage, but hospitalization is not required.
The CRESST team works with the individual on managing symptoms, supporting stabilization, developing coping skills, adjusting medications, and increasing knowledge about mental health.
Services include but are not limited to the following:
- Psychiatric and other relevant assessments to understand the individual’s psychiatric and social support needs
- Care or wellness plan to support the individual’s goals
- Social workers who can assist with financial challenges, housing navigation, and connect to appropriate community resources
- Medication review, adjustment, monitoring and management
- Group and individual therapeutic support
- Teaching about mental health and ways to improve and maintain well-being
- Emotional and social support
- Access to nutritious meals
- Referrals or links to community services that meet individuals’ needs
Access
Eligibility
- 19 years of age and over
- Individual is experiencing a mental health concern that is causing distress and is difficult to manage at home
- Individual can be safely supported in an open setting and does not require hospitalization
- Individual is not acutely psychotic, suicidal or engaging in self-harm
- Individual is actively trying to abstain from substance use
- Individual can take care of their daily living activities
- Individual is not at risk for wandering
- Individual is not showing aggressive or violent behaviour, or is not at risk for violence or aggression
- Individual is agreeable to receiving services
Referral
Referrals for CRESST can be made through a family doctor, mental health centre or hospital.
If you trying to access CRESST from the community, please contact your family doctor or local mental health and substance use centre.
If you are leaving from a hospital, the hospital staff can complete the referral form for CRESST.
Community care providers can find the referral form on the medical staff website forms directory.