From the March 2007 edition of the Healthy Minds Cooperative's The Blue Horse Chronicles:
By Amanda Crabtree
In this month’s column, I have two exciting and long awaited announcements. In May, the Abbie Lane Mental Health Outpatient Department will move some of its services to Bayers Road Centre (the former Bayers Road Shopping Centre) in Halifax. The result will be the opening of Community Mental Health Services, Bayers Road on Tuesday, May 8th, 2007. We have also just confirmed that Dartmouth Community Mental Health will relocate to Belmont House [pictured above] on Alderney Drive in Dartmouth. We do not yet have a move date.
Information about Community Mental Health Services, Bayers Road is being provided to clients of the Abbie Lane Mental Health Outpatient Department and their families, community organizations, family physicians and others. All clients who will need to go to Bayers Road Centre to receive services will be contacted. We have set up a phone line where people can leave messages with questions about the move. The phone number is 473-4847. Messages left at this number will be returned within two business days.
We are in the early planning stages of moving Dartmouth Community Mental Health to Belmont House. This is why a move date is not yet confirmed. Once the move date is confirmed, clients will be notified.
We are very excited about both of these moves because through mental health strategic planning, we heard that clients wanted services located in their communities as much as possible. This is a first but significant step toward building relationships with residents, leaders and service providers in those communities. It will be these relationships that give us the knowledge we need to tailor our services to meet the needs of clients and their communities.
For more information on the Initiative, please e-mail or call me: amanda.crabtree@cdha.nshealth.ca or 460-7401.
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