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Help for Addiction and Substance Use
2024-04-11
Health PEI offers addiction and substance use services for adults, youth, and those wanting to support family members.
Need help now?
Call the Mental Health and Addictions Phone Line at 1-833-553-6983. Calls are answered by trained mental health professionals (a registered nurse...
Mental Health Structured Programming and Day Treatment
2024-03-18
What is Mental Health Structured Programming & Day Treatment?
The Mental Health Structured Programming & Day Treatment provides an intermediary level of care for individuals who are struggling with their mental health and living needs.
Structured Programming has two separate programs...
Student Well-being Team Drop-in Clinics
2024-01-09
Student Well-being Teams (SWT) offer drop-in clinics for high school students at several high schools.
Student Well-being Team drop-in clinics provide students with short-term support to discuss challenges such as anxiety, depression, family conflict, self-harm, sexual health, thoughts of suicide...
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Skills Groups
2023-01-04
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) is a form of therapy that focuses on changing unhelpful ways of thinking and learning other skills like mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness.
Adolescent clients can also learn an additional set of skills called...
Seniors Mental Health Resource Teams
2022-03-01
Seniors Mental Health Resource Teams are multi-disciplinary teams that provide specialized services to seniors experiencing complex mental health problems, as well as support to their families and/or caregivers.
Teams are located in Kings, Queens and Prince Counties and include psychiatry, nurse...
INSIGHT Program for Youth
2022-02-25
The INSIGHT Program is a youth mental health day treatment program that is delivered by a team of health and education professionals who work with youth aged 13-18, their families and schools to reduce the day-to-day impact of mental health problems or illnesses on their lives. ...
Coping Skills Program for distress and chronic stress
2022-02-24
If you are overwhelmed with distress and chronic stress in your life, the Coping Skills Program can help you create positive changes.
Distress is unpleasant feelings or emotions that impact your daily functioning.
Chronic Stress is a feeling of being overwhelmed...
Changeways Core Program for dealing with low mood and depression
2022-02-24
If you are struggling with low mood and depression, the Changeways© Core Program can help you create positive changes in your life.
What will I learn?
You will learn and use skills to manage your mood and overcome depression.
Two main goals of the program are to:
provide you with information...
Opioid Replacement Therapy Program
2022-02-24
If you need help with your opioid addiction, call 1-888-299-8399 toll free for the Opioid Replacement Therapy Program. Your family physician, addiction counsellor, or other health professional may also call on your behalf.
What is methadone and suboxone, and how do they work?...
Better health and healing for teens with mental illness
2017-10-30
Strengthening mental health services -
The world can be a stressful and threatening place for many teens, and especially for those with mental health challenges.
Through Health PEI’s INSIGHT program, a group of trained and concerned professionals is offering these Prince Edward Island youth aged...