Achievements/Current Projects

Since 2020, during our team meetings at the CSMFE, stakeholders have emphasized that mental health and substance abuse issues are on the rise. This information is confirmed by all our partners during our meetings with various authorities.

It is important to note that mental health intervention teams refuse to offer services if a concurrent substance abuse issue is present, and vice versa for substance abuse intervention teams. The support that families and loved ones want to provide to their loved ones experiencing dual issues is therefore even more difficult during times of crisis.

This new project, funded by APPUI for three years, will first allow our stakeholder to develop a profile of the mental health and substance abuse stakeholders with whom a partnership could be developed. Subsequently, we will need to co-construct a support program with the various mental health and substance abuse partners, keeping families and loved ones at the heart of the interventions.

Several collaborators have already expressed interest in this collaborative project. The CSMFE team and its Board of Directors are very proud of this funding and understand the significant work involved in this project.

We're ready!

Since September 2023, the Carrefour en santé mentale pour les familles et l’entourage (CSMFE) and the Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux (CISSS) de la Montérégie-Est have joined forces to support families and loved ones of individuals experiencing mental health issues in crisis situations. This innovative project, in collaboration with emergency services in the Montérégie-Est region, aims to intervene at the right moment with caregivers to prevent them from being left without resources, exhausted, or in a crisis themselves. Our partners include the Accès crisis center, police, the Pierre Boucher hospital's care and emergency units, community organizations, and more. These proximity interventions can take place at home or wherever the crisis is occurring.

The family crisis intervention project fosters an open dialogue between those experiencing a crisis, their families and loved ones, and the professionals involved.

This collaborative project is led by CSMFE and L'Entre-Deux, an alternative mental health resource whose mission is to help women experiencing depression and women living with a personality disorder who need therapeutic support. The project aims to pool and share the complementary expertise and resources of our organizations to better respond to the needs of families and loved ones of individuals living with borderline personality disorder.

The project objectives are as follows:

1. Develop and experiment with a coordinated and inclusive approach based on mutual support, bringing together families, loved ones, professionals, and individuals experiencing borderline personality disorder (BPD).
   
   
2. Establish a support group to raise awareness, inform, and support the families and loved ones of individuals living with BPD.
   
   
3. Facilitate dialogue between families and their loved ones living with BPD.
   
   
4. Guide loved ones towards services better suited to the needs of individuals living with BPD, to avoid the revolving door syndrome.
   
   
5. Promote knowledge transfer by documenting the experience with a university research team.

Through this collaboration, CSMFE and L'Entre-Deux aim to bring together both parties to foster dialogue, make interventions more effective, and ensure that the tools created in this project are used by all parties involved (families, individuals with BPD, professionals, employers, and police officers).