Paul’s mental health and life outlook completely changed once he visited our DYMON Health Clinic.
Paul is sitting inside one of our DYMON Health Clinic examination rooms. He’s 58 years old, but he exudes youthfulness through his upbeat and polite demeanor. He shares:
Paul suffers from complex post-traumatic stress disorder due to several different events in his life, some tracing back to his youth. Left unchecked, his condition deteriorated and eventually led him
to The Mission. Once in a shelter bed, he joined Hope, one of our addiction and trauma programs.
Paul also got help from a housing case manager, who removed barriers that made it hard for him to find affordable housing. They helped him file his taxes, apply for a city rent-supplement program, and more.
But the key support element Paul received was access to our health clinic, where in partnership with Ottawa Inner City Health (OICH), we provide vital healthcare to vulnerable people who cannot otherwise access it.
Paul was seen by Lesley, an OICH nurse practitioner who prescribed the medication that stabilized his condition and changed his life. With this, and all the wraparound supports Paul had received, things clicked together, and he was ready to transition into housing and independence.
This occurred a few years ago. Today, Paul is still in the home you helped him find, still living the life you helped him recapture.
Sitting in the same exam room that he first visited when he was at his lowest ebb, Paul looks around the room and reflects with a smile: