Overdose Follow-up

Supporting people following an overdose was one focus of the team. Participating in a wellness check gave the community paramedic a chance to provide minor medical care like checking an abscess and making a warm connection to further medical care. People could also get harm reduction supplies, including Naloxone, and emotional support. It can be challenging to try and think of all the appropriate referrals required after an overdose. One referral to MSORT provided the team a chance to do an assessment and connect the individual to supports that made sense.

MSORT was also of assistance to people supporting someone else who had experienced a recent overdose and needed information, support or referrals. Additionally, MSORT also helped service providers ensure that everything that could be done was being done.

Harm Reduction supports, supplies and Naloxone

Helping people stay as healthy as they could while they used and preventing overdoses was another focus of the team. Whether your clients needed new supplies like syringes, information on safer use or Naloxone, MSORT could help.

Health and Wellness supports

The team provided a range of services and supports that included single, one-time interactions through to short-term case management. Where longer-term support or care was required the team helped connect people to available services and programs that they wanted and needed. This systems navigation meant more than making a referral, it meant working with people to really understand their needs and supporting them through the referral process to ensure a successful connection.

We referred to and worked with you and a wide range of health and social services including: the Rapid Access Addictions Medicine Clinic, 360 Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic, mental health services, addictions treatment options, Primary Care, Housing Supports, Legal Aid, Kawartha Sexual Assault Centre, Nogojiawanong Friendship Centre, Youth Services, and more (see collaborative care planning).

Collaborative care planning

MSORT was committed to collaborative holistic approaches including assistance with systems navigation and collaborative care planning.