Durham+Amaze+and+Interact

=__**Durham Amaze**__= The Amaze program is an outpatient, early intervention service for individuals 14-34 years of age offered through Lakeridge Health. Their multidisciplinary team includes psychiatrists, social workers, registered nurses, addictions counsellor and an occupational therapist.

The clinical approaches involve:
 * Comprehensive team assessment
 * Treatment
 * Family education and support
 * Facilitating access and early identification
 * Public education
 * Research

The team provides early intervention treatment and support to individuals and their families in the community, home, and school or wherever the individual feels the most comfortable. The program includes: education and information, individual therapy, group therapy, family therapy, community activities and public education.

=__**Interact**__= Interact is a community mental health program providing short term (3-6 months) group and psychotherapy programs. Some characteristics of the interact program include:
 * Provide limited individual therapy as an alternative to group therapy and or adjunct to group therapy.
 * Offer a range of specialized programs that include men’s anger management, self esteem building, mindfulness based stress reduction and treatment for obsessive compulsive disorders.
 * Interact provides treatment programs they do not provide support groups.

Referrals are accepted from a variety of health care professionals as well as self referrals.(Lakeridge Health Services, 2009)