The Community Mental Health Service of Orillia Soldiers' Memorial Hospital is a community mental health program of the Ontario Ministry of Health that provides educational, assessment, and treatment services for individuals 16 years of age and over who have serious mental health or psychiatric problems.
 
The primary goal of the program is to provide community-based services as alternatives to residential psychiatric admission or re-admission wherever possible, and to facilitate the return to the community of those individuals who have been discharged from psychiatric facilities.
 
The Community Mental Health Service provides a range of services for the treatment of mental illness and mental health problems including:

educational and support programs,
assessment,
individual and group counselling,
advocacy,
information and referral,
family support,
life skills training,
anger management,
social-recreational activity,
psychiatric consultation,
outreach,
case management and
public education.

 
The Community Mental Health Service is part of the county-wide Crisis Response Service providing same day or next working day appointments and short-term follow-up for individuals in an acute psychosocial or psychiatric crisis.