Psychosocial Rehabilitation

Psychosocial Rehabilitation

Psychosocial Rehabilitation provides rehabilitation for people with severe and persistent mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorders. Psychosocial rehabilitation may include illness education and management, skills for daily living, health promotion and return to meaningful activity including leisure and employment.

"Recovery" refers to individuals' abilities to guide their own wellness journeys, and live satisfying, hopeful, and contributing lives, even though mental health and substance use problems may cause ongoing limitations.

Dependent on the community in which you live, the following services may be available within our Psychosocial Rehabilitation services:

• Individual and group support
• Life skills coaching 
  • Wellness education
  • Self-management tools
  • Coping skills/ Stress management
  • Develop a healthy lifestyle
  • Begin or return to community activities
  • Explore meaning and purpose
  • Access to vocational resources
• Access to neuropsychological testing
• Access to housing and rehabilitation programs
• Connection with/advocacy for community resources
• Education for clients and families
• Medication education, management, monitoring and administration
• Illness education and symptom management
• Discharge and care planning

Mental Wellness Day Program Victoria

The Mental Wellness Day Program is a group-based, recovery-oriented psychosocial rehabilitation program. We serve adults with diagnosed mental health problems such as schizophrenia, psychosis, bipolar disorder and major depression.

Our team includes occupational therapists, nurses, a social worker and a recreation therapist who will work towards your individual treatment needs alongside your primary health clinician.

What We Do

Provide a comprehensive individually tailored group treatment program in three broad categories:

• Support for stabilization helps acutely ill individuals get better faster.
• Alternative to inpatient care
• Supports transition from inpatient to outpatient care
• Structured routine gently increases tolerance for movement, concentration and social interaction
• Daily function-based assessment of stabilization 

Education and skill development helps stable individuals gain knowledge and independence: 

• Illness education and management
• Coping skills
• Daily living skills

Recovery and health promotion helps individuals expand beyond the illness

• Develop a healthy lifestyle
• Integrate into community roles
• Explore meaning and purpose

Referral criteria

• Intended for individuals who have a primary Axis I diagnosis and who are 17-75 years’ old
• Individuals with developmental disabilities or head injuries are better served by other resources in the community.
• Participants must be receiving care from a psychiatrist

Mental Wellness Day Program Victoria Brochure

Mental Wellness Day Program Schedule

Mental Wellness Day Program Descriptions

Souper Meals

Souper Meals provides healthy, low-cost, made-from-scratch meals to existing clients of Victoria Mental Health & Substance Use (MHSU) services. Individuals can register in person and purchase meals during sales hours. All frozen meals are prepared by MHSU clients enrolled in the Souper Meals PSR skill-building kitchen experience program. See our featured story on the Souper Meals program.