The Northern Psychiatric Outreach Program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (NPOP) is committed to providing clinical service, education and support of the highest quality to communities throughout Ontario, but in particular to communities that are rural or remote, or are considered under-serviced in terms of access to mental health care. We work collaboratively with communities to provide community-relevant service and education.
Directors
- Dr. Heather Flett, NPOP Visiting Specialist Clinics program
- Dr. Allison Crawford, Nunavut program
About the Program
NPOP evolved from a 1993 Underserviced Area Program Committee. What began early in 1994 with an in-person consultation outreach service to Kenora expanded in 1995 to include the communities of Parry Sound, Peterborough, Sault Ste. Marie, Sioux Lookout and Timmins. NPOP has continued to grow, with over 50 faculty consultants providing psychiatric outreach services across Ontario to over 50 communities through a hybrid service model of in-person (i.e., fly in/drive in) and virtual care modalities.
We also provide psychiatry outreach to the Qikiqtani, Region of Nunavut, with monthly consultation visits by psychiatrists to Arctic Bay, Kingaait (formerly Cape Dorset), Clyde River, Sanirajak (formerly Hall Beach), Igloolik, Kimmirut, Pangnirtung, Pond Inlet, and Qikiqtarjuaq, as well as the regional centre Iqaluit. Residents actively participate in this service through electives.
Education
In affiliation with the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, NPOP promotes northern outreach opportunities to psychiatry residents. Through a program of short electives and longer core and selective rotations, in collaboration with the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, NPOP provides a wide range of placements for psychiatric residents to experience supervised training in remote and rural areas.
Resident electives extend our core clinical service mandate by providing a means to implement long-term changes in training, recruitment, retention and career development opportunities for psychiatrists in northern Ontario. This resident training offers the potential to contribute to meeting the health and human resource needs of northern Ontario communities.
NPOP electives are available in northern communities and Nunavut.
If you are interested or would like to know more about doing an elective, please contact us at NPOPC@camh.ca.
Partnership communities in northern Ontario, include but are not limited to:
- Atikokan: Atikokan Family Health Team, Atikokan General Hospital
- Barrie: Barrie Family Health Team, Canadian Mental Health Association Barrie, Royal Victoria Regional Health
- Blind River: Health Sciences North, Huron Shores Family Health Team
- Bracebridge: Canadian Mental Health Association Muskoka Parry Sound
- Burk’s Falls: Burk’s Falls Family Health Team
- Collingwood: Georgian Bay Family Health Team
- Dryden: Dryden Family Health Team
- Ear Falls: Ear Falls Family Health Team
- Elliot Lake: Elliot Lake Family Health Team, St. Joseph's General Hospital
- Espanola: Espanola Family Health Team
- Fort Frances: Fort Frances Family Health Team/Riverside Health Care
- Fort Severn: Keewaytinook Okimakanak e-Health Telemedicine
- Fort William First Nation: Dilico Family Health Team
- Geraldton: Greenstone Family Health Team
- Haileybury: Haileybury Family Health Team
- Hearst: Nord-Aski Family Health Team
- Hunstville: Canadian Mental Health Association Muskoka Parry Sound, North Muskoka Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic
- Ignace: Mary Berglund Community Health CentreIroquois Falls: Iroquois Falls Family Health Team
- Kapuskasing: North Eastern Ontario Family and Children's Services
- Kasabonika: Keewaytinook Okimakanak e-Health Telemedicine
- Mattawa: Mattawa Family Health Team
- Midland: Chigamik Community Health Centre, North Simcoe Family Health Team
- Mindemoya: Manitoulin Central Family Health Team
- Muskoka: Canadian Mental Health Association Muskoka Parry Sound
- New Liskeard: Great Northern Family Health Team, Mino M'shki-ki Indigenous Health Team
- North Bay: North Bay Nurse Practitioner Led Clinic, North Bay Psychiatric Hospital
- Orillia: Couchiching Family Health Team
- Parry Sound: Canadian Mental Health Association Muskoka Parry Sound / West Parry Sound Health Centre
- Pikangikum: Keewaytinook Okimakanak e-Health Telemedicine
- Poplar Hill: Keewaytinook Okimakanak e-Health Telemedicine
- Sault Ste. Marie: Algoma Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic, Sault Area Hospital, Sault Ste. Marie Group Health Centre, Superior Family Health Team
- Sioux Lookout: Meno-Ya-Win Health Centre
- Simcoe County: Canadian Mental Health Association Barrie Simcoe Orillia
- Sudbury: City of Lakes Family Health Team, Sudbury East Community Health Centre / Univi Health
- Temagami: Temagami Medical Centre & Family Health Team
- Thessalon: North Channel Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic
- Timmins: East End Family Health Team, Jubilee Centre, Timmins Family Health Team
- Vermillion Bay: Points North Family Health Team
- Wasaga Beach: South Georgian Bay Community Health Centre
- Wawa: Lady Dunn Health Centre
Contacts
- Northern Psychiatric Outreach Program at CAMH
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
60 White Squirrel Way
Toronto, ON M6J 1H4
Telephone: 416-535-8501 extension 36180
Email: NPOPC@camh.ca
- Dr. Heather Flett, Medical Director, NPOP program
Email: heather.flett@utoronto.ca
- Dr. Allison Crawford, Medical Director, Nunavut program
Telephone: 416 535-8501 ext. 30318
Fax: 416 979-6902
E-mail: allison.crawford@utoronto.ca
- Michelle Deherian, Manager
Telephone: 416 535-8501 ext. 37849
Fax: 416-979-6902
Email: michelle.deherian@camh.ca
