Referral and Documentation Resources and Tools
Toolkits
- Campus Mental Health Partnerships Toolkit (full toolkit available on CICMH website)
Sample Intake Forms
- Counselling Centre Intake Form – Part A
- Counselling Centre Intake Form – Part B
- Mental Health Triage Scale – Centennial College
Sample Consent Forms
- Intake Consent Form – Georgian College
- Consent Form – Centennial College
- Consent to Collect, Use, and Release PHI – Centennial College
- Release of Information Form – Georgian College
- Monthly Appointment Tracking Form and Activities Report – Centennial College
(and the excel worksheet can be found here). - Clockwork Data Collection Fields
- Progress Note Form – Centennial College
Legislation
Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario
- Circle of Care Sharing Personal Health Information for Health-Care Purposes
- A Guide to the Personal Health Information Protection Act
- Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers –
Practice Guidelines for Consent and Confidentiality with Children and Youth
Other Resources
Guidebook on Vicarious Trauma
Discusses the importance of recognizing the effects of vicarious trauma, developing healthy personal solutions and promoting organizational responses to preserve the strength of counsellors and advocates.
Living Well
Section on trauma is designed to increase understanding, to provide practical support, and to give an opportunity for critical reflection on addressing vicarious trauma.
Mental Health Recovery Competencies For Mental Health Workers
Experts by experience participated in an online Delphi survey to rate the importance of recovery competency statements, to reach consensus on the most important competencies and provide examples of specific practices that demonstrate competent practice.
Occupational hazards: Compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma and burnout
Article by one of the experts in the field defining compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma and burnout with strategies and resources
Realizing Recovery:
A National Framework for Learning and Training in Recovery Focused Practice
Outlines the knowledge, skills and values mental health workers require to work in a recovery focused way with people who use mental health services and their friends, family and carers
Recovery Competencies for New Zealand Mental Health Workers
Outlines the principles of Recovery and 10 Recovery Competencies for workers
Website which offers e-news, webinars, training and technical assistance, and more than 900 recovery-oriented resources. Training curricula can be accessed by discipline including addiction specialist, peer specialist, psychiatric nursing, psychiatry, psychology and social work
Tend – Essential Grounding and Debriefing Tools for Front Line Workers
Website dedicated to support those experiencing stress, burnout and fatigue to direct and secondary trauma. Provides services, trainings, resources and links on related subjects
The Trauma & Mental Health Report
The Trauma & Mental Health Report is a weekly online mental-health magazine. Its purpose is to share research-based knowledge with members of the community, on the topic of interpersonal trauma
Trauma Informed: The Trauma Toolkit
A resource for service organizations and providers to deliver services that are trauma-informed