Provides primary health care for individuals and families with multiple systemic barriers to accessing health services.
Service provides:
- a broad range of medical services in clinic and in the community
Services available include:
- Primary Care - multidisciplinary services ranging from medical care to social services
- a clinic equipped to deal with minor emergencies such as stitches, burn treatment, and wound treatment
- staff who are knowledgeable about human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), Hepatitis C, addictions, mental illness, and socioeconomic issues
- onsite access to Alberta Precision Labs (APL) collection
- Chiropractic Care - volunteer chiropractor services available at specific drop-in times
- Health Advocacy - health advocates act as a resource for both the staff and clients at the centre regarding addictions, financial, and legal issues, as well as counseling services, food, and clothing issues, applications for assistance, and more; advocates assist clients beyond immediate medical need, in whatever way possible, including advocating on behalf of clients with outside agencies
- Psychology Services - therapeutic support for individuals and families with multiple systemic barriers to accessing mental health services and for people coping with a variety of concerns, including both childhood and adult traumas, and the secondary issues that stem from trauma, including addictions, depression, and anxiety; also help support people through medical diagnosis, chronic illness, and chronic pain
- Psychiatry Services - strives to help people find relief from their emotional pains for a life of satisfaction, strength, and love; explore such concerns as depression, anxiety, confusion, fears, addictions, and relationship struggles
- Supervised Consumption Services (SCS) - a safe place for people to use drugs under the direct supervision of medically trained staff to promote harm reduction and decrease the harm and deaths linked with opioid use; connects people to health and social services, provides harm reduction supports such as sterile equipment, and encourages safer drug use; staff are on hand to administer naloxone in the event of an opioid overdose (does not provide site users with drugs)