Helping you to help yourself.
Clinic Hours
| H: | Monday: | 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM |
| Tuesday: | 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM | |
| Wednesday: | 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM | |
| Thursday: | 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM | |
| Friday: | 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM |
| We are closed between 12:00PM and 1:00PM for lunch. |
Contact Us
22 Church Street
Suite T190
Moncton, NB
E1C 0P7
F: (506) 384-7285
About Salvus Clinic
Salvus Clinic is a different kind of clinic. It offers hope and help to those who feel like there is none left. They understand that simple health problems can become unmanageable when basic needs for food, shelter and medications can't be met. Salvus Clinic treats the whole person.
Salvus Clinic provides health care to all ages and all genders. This includes counselling; supportive addiction management; screening and prevention of illness; immunizations; routine health assessments; blood work and referrals to specialists.
Originally located within a local homeless shelter, the clinic relocated in 2012 to the Community Peace Centre in the core of the downtown area. Salvus Clinic lies on the path to a soup kitchen, is easily reached by public transit or walking, and is wheelchair accessible. The clinic has the added bonus of being located on the first floor and can be accessed discretely by clients throughout the day. The clinic is 2,780 square feet and has a waiting room, four shared offices, four examination/counseling rooms, one group meeting room and a wheelchair accessible washroom.
Salvus Clinic links with various community and government agencies such as Horizon Health and Vitalite´ , Department of Social Development, local shelters, AIDS Moncton, YWCA and United Way, to name a few, for the purpose of improving wrap- around services to meet the complex needs of our clients.
Is Salvus the Right Clinic for Me?
- I am homeless.
- I have a mental illness which severely impacts my life.
- I currently do not have a primary healthcare provider (family doctor or nurse practitioner).
- My substance use has led to loss of social connections (family and friends) and/ or incarceration.
Services
Peer Support
Salvus Clinic is recognized provincially as a leader in peer-support work and we are very proud to work closely with our Peer Support Specialists.
Our last training was held in January 2017. Currently those trained are working with mentors in the community and are excited to be able to give back to the community. We would like to thank WA Action for providing funding to help us train the peers.
Peer Supported Housing
In partnership with United Way, Salvus Clinic manages two Peer Supportive Housing (PSH) buildings which provide housing with on-site support to tenants who experience issues with mental health and chronic homelessness. Tenants for PSH must be eligible to receive housing under the rules for the Department of Social Development and must agree to pay a portion of the rent and work towards recovery with the staff. Currently Salvus works closely with the Housing Review Assessment Team (HART) to identify individuals with high needs who might benefit from peer supported housing.
Diabetic Clinic
If you have diabetes and need help with managing your illness, a diabetic educator visits the clinic monthly and can help you. Call the clinic for an appointment.
YWCA Partnership
Salvus Clinic is a key partner in this federally funded program, an initiative that seeks to help individuals exit the sex trade through stable housing and support for mental and physical health. Connect with Jen Fredericks to find out more.
Needle Distribution
In partnership with AIDS Moncton, Salvus Clinic distributes and collects needles for individuals who have issues with substance use.
Navigator Services
Salvus Clinic, with funding from GSC, is helping clients navigate health and community systems. Using a holistic approach to assess needs and strengths, the clinic staff is ready to help people start on their road to recovery.
Appointments
- Phone the office at 384-7283 during clinic hours to schedule an appointment. If you are unable to get through, please leave a brief message with your name and your phone number. We strive to respond to each and every message during open hours, however, due to the busyness of the office and the high volume of calls, your message may not be returned immediately. If we do not return your call within 1 business day, please call back.
Please note that our highest call volumes are between the hours of 9AM-10AM and between 1PM-2:30PM. You will have more success getting through if you call at alternative hours.
- Come into the office and we can find an appointment to suit you.
- We now have online booking. In order to sign up for this service you must speak to the receptionist. They will give you a username and password. You can then log into the following site: https://myhealthlink.ca/e-booking
Salvus Team
Dr. Susan Crouse
Family Physician
Dr. Susan Crouse is the co-founder of Salvus Clinic . She has worked as a family physician for over 25 years. Helping people transform their lives brings her much joy.
Annette Taylor
Nurse practitioner
Annette is happy to join the Salvus health team on a part time basis for 2020. As a nurse practitioner, she provides holistic person centered care across the age spectrum. She also has a wealth of knowledge as a diabetic educator.
Melissa Baxter
Executive Director
Melissa is Salvus Clinic’s Executive Director. Melissa has worked for a number of years in the areas of community mental health, mental health literacy, and most recently with the Department of Health, Addiction and Mental Health Services Branch. The focus of her career has been on program development, community engagement, and management of mental health programming; she operates from a patient-centred, harm reduction, and recovery focused lens.
Fernanda Borges
Administrative Assistant
Fernanda is one of our administrative assistants who welcomes everyone with a smile. Together with Lauren, she helps to keep everything organized. She loves the beautiful Moncton´s landscapes.
France Maillet-Gagnon
Nurse practitioner
France has fourteen years of nursing experience in emergency, acute and long term care. She wants to meet you where you are at and help you to better health.
Kristen Seely
Community Navigator
Kristen works alongside clients to support them in accessing community services, increase community connections, and build strong support networks.
Lauren Sutherland
Administrative Assistant
Lauren is our newest Administrative Assistant who works with Fernanda to answer calls, book appointments, and help you out as much as possible.
Linda Sabine
Intensive Case Manager
Linda works as a part of a team providing high quality case management services to clients eligible for and transitioning into permanent housing.
Rhonda Cudmore
Property Manager
Rhonda can always be found wearing her signature orange coat inspecting our peer supported and scattered housing units ensuring that all property maintenance needs are met.
Tara-Lynn Pitre
Intensive Case Manager
Tara is a certified peer support specialist who has been working in this role for the past 7 years. She loves coming alongside people to share in their recovery journey.
Derrick Beardsworth
Intensive Case Manager
Derrick's role of Intensive Case Manager is part of a team providing services to clients transitioning into permanent housing. Derrick has many years in providing positive child/youth and family support and development within at-risk community members.
Marc-André Hébert
Intensive Case Manager
Marc- André is a member of the Intensive Case Management team at Salvus Clinic. Marc- André studied at University of Ottawa, Bachelor of Social Work and has since worked on the FACT team with Vitalité Health, Shepherds of Good Hope as Shelter Case Manager as well as Whitehorse General Hospital as Social Worker.
Board Members
Georgina Hubbard
Chair
Georgina is a licensed pharmacist and currently owns two independent pharmacies. She has many years of experience in community and hospital pharmacy, as well as project management. She has a degree in Pharmacy from Dalhousie University and a Masters in Education from UNB. She is a Canadian Health Executive with the Canadian College of Health Leaders. She has served on Council and the Executive of the NB Pharmaceutical Society for 12 years, serving on many provincial and national committees.
Georgina and her husband Colin, are parents to Maggie, their new puppy, and devote as much time as they can to their special granddaughter, Kate.
J. Dan Kirk
Dan spent 40 years in oil industry with several positions in sales & marketing, controllers, customer service and information technology departments gaining global in-depth experience leading diverse client service, operations, and project teams within a large multinational corporation. Dan has demonstrated the ability to independently manage resources, timeframes and multiple priorities while creating strategic partnerships to achieve aggressive goals. His entrepreneurial spirit with a take charge attitude is known for driving down costs while increasing quality and efficiency through training and process improvements. He demonstrates excellent relationship management ability to problem solve with an adaptive, agile, high motivation style.
Dan recently joined Salvus board to pursue his long time interest in supporting Moncton’s urban community through this agency’s promotion of the health of persons who are suffering from homelessness, addiction, mental or physical illness, disability or low income.
Jane Wood
Jane Wood (Kennedy) has lived in Moncton for most of her life with the exception of four years at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax and seven years in LoJane Wood (Kennedy) has lived in Moncton for most of her life with the exception of four years at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax and seven years in London, Ontario. She is married and has two girls. Twenty years of Jane's career was spent as an investment advisor with RBC Dominion Securities Inc and now she is in business for herself as an executive coach.
Jane was introduced to Dr. Crouse and the Salvus Clinic by her mother who had very high regard for Sue and the work she does. Jane and her family recently moved to the country where they are excited to learn about gardening and local animals as well as snow shoeing through the woods.
Lisa Ryan
Lisa has been volunteering and working within the housing and homelessness sector for the past 10 years. Lisa believes wholeheartedly that housing is a fundamental human right, and that everyone deserves access to safe, adequate and affordable housing. It is Lisa's belief that we are all God's children, and all have value and worth fare above what society deems us to.
Lisa's lived experience of homelessness in her early 20's has fueled her passion to work towards a solution for this complex issue.
Lisa has been guided by the Housing First Movement: "Housing is not contingent upon readiness, or on 'compliance' (for instance, sobriety). Rather, it is a rights-based intervention rooted in the philosophy that all people deserve housing, and that adequate housing is a precondition for recovery."
In the past, Lisa has worked in the role of street intervention worker, led a housing first program and street outreach team, assisted in organizing and co-leading an emergency pop up shelter which focused on providing safe space and harm reduction supplies to those who could not acess existing shelter spaces due to mental health and addictions.
Lisa has advocated and heled facilitate the work of the Greater Moncton Homelessness Steering Committee. Recently Lisa has been assisting communities in establishing processes to help front line agencies work in collaboration with one another and make data-based decisions through use of coordinated access systems.
Claudette Bradshaw
Claudette worked at the Moncton Boys and Girls Club and in 1974 Founded and was Executive Director of Moncton Headstart. In 1997, she became a Member of Parliament until 2006 and was responsible for National Homelessness Initiatives as Minister of Labour for 7 years. She served as Sec’ty of State for Multiculturalism, Status of Women, Aboriginals in Workplace, Literacy and led the NB Premier’s Task Force on Community Non-Profit Organizations. Claudette is presently a Board Member for the Canadian Foundation on Foetal Alcohol Research and has been a member NB Task Force on Early Child Development, Task Force on Social Housing in NB, National Council on Welfare, and a Member & Co-Chair, Canadian Council on Crime Prevention. She was recently Site Coordinator for the AtHome/ChezSoi National research project with the Mental Health Commission.
Claudette and her husband Doug have 2 sons, and also been foster parents.
Danny Jardine
Danny has worked for Horizon Health Network in various positions for the past 15 years and is currently the Regional Director for Collaborative Care Seniors Health Network in Moncton. Danny is an alumnus of Mount Allison University, UNB and Dalhousie University and has most recently achieved his Masters Degree in Public Administration. Danny was born in Charlottetown, PEI and has worked in Saint John being extensively involved in the community over the past twenty years. Danny has enjoyed being part of many organizations whose mandate included helping marginalized populations be the best that they can be. He now lives in downtown Moncton with his partner and dog. Danny’s many hobbies and interests include running, cycling, triathlons, volunteering, politics, gardening, social justice and flying. Danny looks forward to helping the Salvus Clinic achieve their mission and vision in anyway he can!