The Community Treatment Orders (CTO) program serves individuals with a serious mental illness who have a history of repeated hospitalizations and have shown benefit from receiving treatment, care and supervision in their place of residence as an alternative to in-patient psychiatric treatment.

Individual must have had 2 or more Schedule 1 hospital admissions in the last three years or one admission of 30 days or longer in the last three years. This is on a voluntary basis or supported by their substitute decision maker if treatment incapable