Mission Statement
In keeping with its mission, NOFPP provides French-language psychiatric services to various Francophone communities in Northeastern Ontario.
Mission
NOFPP provides high-quality French-language psychiatric services benefitting clients, service users and staff of mental health programs in Northern Ontario communities and other Ministry of Health agencies with a recognized need for such services.
Description
The program deploys French-speaking psychiatrists across Northern Ontario to work with multidisciplinary community mental health teams and physicians, offering a range of services from psychiatric consultations to training sessions. We provide general and geriatric psychiatry services, both in person and online.
Objectives
- Provide the best possible psychiatric care in Northern Ontario hospitals and mental health programs in communities with a need for French-language services.
- Develop a pool of French-speaking psychiatrists willing to move or commute to designated Ontario communities with a recognized need for French-language clinical psychiatric services. This initiative is facilitated through the office of the coordinator of the Francophone Psychiatric Program and the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Ottawa.
- Assist in recruiting and training French-speaking Canadian graduates, foreign-trained psychiatrists and other mental health professionals, to provide effective psychiatric care in designated underserved areas.
- Offer continuing education, consultations and guidance to physicians and other mental health professionals serving underserved communities.
- Provide on-demand phone consultations for staff dealing with difficult cases in underserved communities.Serve as a point of liaison with various specialized programs in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Ottawa and elsewhere in the province.
- Maintain audio-visual links with a large number of community mental health clinics in Northern and Northeastern Ontario to facilitate the delivery of continuing medical education programs and consultation services.
- Provide opportunities for accelerated, case-based psychiatric training to general practitioners, nurses and other mental health professionals.
- Work closely with the Ministry of Health’s Underserviced Area Program and French Language Health Services.
NOFPP psychiatrists are active in the following communities in Northern Ontario.
General psychiatry
- Chapleau: Chapleau Health Services, Turning Point Décisif.
- Elliot Lake: East Algoma Mental Health Clinic.
- Englehart: Englehart and District Family Health Team.
- Hearst, Kapuskasing & Smooth Rock Falls: Hearst, Kapuskasing & SRF Counselling Services.
- Iroquois Falls, Cochrane, Matheson: Canadian Mental Health Association, Cochrane-Timiskaming.
- Kirkland Lake: Kirkland and District Family Health Team.
- Mattawa: Mattawa Hospital.
- New Liskeard: Canadian Mental Health Association, Cochrane-Timiskaming Branch
- Sturgeon Falls: The Alliance Centre, West Nipissing General Hospital.
- Timmins: Canadian Mental Health Association (Timmins), Centre de Santé Communautaire de Timmins.
- Wawa: Lady Dunn Health Centre.
- Sudbury: Health Sciences North
Geriatric psychiatry
NOFPP works with North East Behavioural Supports Ontario to provide consultation services in hospitals, long-term care facilities, retirement residences and patients’ homes.
Contact us
- Dr. Michèle Tremblay, Executive Director
- Karima Benqaddi, Program Manager
Northern Ontario Francophone Psychiatric Program (NOFPP)
Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa
1145 Carling Ave.
Phone: 613 715-5829
Email: karima.benqaddi@uottawa.ca - Dr. Sephor Tang
Program Director, Psychiatry Residency Training Program
Department of Psychiatry, University of Ottawa
The Ottawa Hospital, General Campus
501 Smyth Road
Ottawa, Ontario K1H 8L6
Phone: 613-737-8010
Email: stang@toh.on.ca - Debbie Hall
Program Manager
Residency Training Progrm
Department of Psychiatry, University of Ottawa
The Ottawa Hospital, General Campus
501 Smyth Road, Room 4418
Ottawa, Ontario K1H 8L6
Phone: 613-737-8955
Fax: 613-739-9980
Email: dehall@toh.on.ca
