The Housing Services programs strive to provide individuals with services that prevent and reduce hospital care, and that promote the optimal level of functioning to achieve each individual’s personal satisfaction, growth, and highest potential.
The Housing programs place a strong emphasis on psychosocial rehabilitation principles and the recovery model to assist members to maximize their quality of life.
Supported Independent Living (SIL) Program
The SIL program allows individuals to live independently in a subsidized rental apartment. The supported housing programs are designed to give individuals the ability to choose the neighborhood they wish to live in, within their own self-contained apartment. Each client works with an outreach support worker to assist them in succeeding at their self-determined goals and enhancing their quality of life. The outcome goals are to maximize independence by acquiring or maintaining personal confidence, social supports and skills for daily living. This will assist individuals to move along the continuum of housing to the level of support that they need to maximize their quality of life.
Super SIL Program
The SUPER SIL program is similar to the SIL program with a greater level of support. The SUPER SIL program can offer support up to a maximum support during crisis of 3 to 5 times a week.
Enhanced Supported Apartments
Enhanced Supported Apartments are self-contained, subsidized suites in a designated apartment building. A mental health worker is on site 24-hours. Help with medications is available. One communal meal is provided.
The Enhanced Supported Apartments offers residents an opportunity to live independently in the community. The programs follow the psychosocial rehabilitation model. Residents are assisted with life skills building such as shopping, cooking, cleaning, social, spiritual, and personal effectiveness.
Ongoing group programming is also offered such as, cooking group, walking group, swimming program, Friday night social, art program, beauty night, music group, games night, videos and bingo, just to name a few.
Friendship Court, Kettle Enhanced Apartment: Opened in 2003 and has two 2-Bedroom apartments, one 1-Bedroom and 14 bachelor apartments.
Triumph Apartments, Kettle Enhanced Apartment: Opened in 2001 and has 15 bachelor apartments.
Medication Monitoring Program
The goal of the Community Medication Monitoring Program is to support clients to live independently in their own homes by providing medication delivery and monitoring by trained Mental Health workers. The program offers medication monitoring for breakfast, dinner and HS (bedtime) medications.
The basic principle of the program is to work in a partnership with the mental health team, the Doctor and the client on learning the life skill and the importance of medication compliance to help maintain their health and remain out of hospital.
This program has been highly successful at helping individuals who have frequent hospitalizations remain healthy and in the community. The program has also been successful with assisting clients with realizing the importance of medication compliance and learning the routine. The program offers a step down program with a slow transition through reducing the medication drops per day, then phone contact reminders, and with the ultimate success of the client being medication compliant without any assistance.
Licensed Care Facilities
The Kettle understands that women often experience mental illness differently than men and need their own space for recovery. Therefore, The Kettle has two facilities specifically for women with mental illness: Camille House and Peggy’s Place. These facilities offer 24-hour staffing in a home like atmosphere. Residents have the opportunity to develop life skills in a supportive environment through resident involvement and programming. Residents receive daily administration of medications and meals are provided.
The staff works within the psychosocial model to foster independence and choice where independence and self reliance is promoted. Staff members assist women to maintain their mental and physical health as they work on their personal goals and effectiveness. During the women’s stay they are referred to mental health support, GP and dentists, and if necessary trauma counseling, and drug and alcohol programs.
Camille House: Opened in 1989. Camille House is a 10-bed long term care facility for women.
Peggy’s Place: Opened in 1997. Peggy’s Place is a 10-bed one of a kind 6-month transitional house for women living with mental illness who have experienced domestic violence or who are living with violence in their lives.
