Focus: Mental Health
Talk-In Clinic provides quick access to trained clinicians, immediate problem-solving, therapeutic conversations and connections to other DCAFS and community services.
Focus: Mental Health
Brief Therapy Services focuses on reducing the severity of and/or remedying the emotional, social, behavioural and self-regulation problems of children and youth by providing “quick access” therapeutic encounters to address the immediate or presenting needs of a child or youth.
Focus: Mental Health
Age-appropriate counselling and therapy services focusing on younger children ages 0-6 to reduce the severity of, and/or remedy emotional, social, behavioural and self-regulation problems. Counselling and therapy services can include a range of modalities (e.g., individual, group (Circle of Security), family or play-based) as well as clinical practices (e.g., cognitive-behaviour therapy). Services are provided within the context of the family, culture and community.
Focus: Mental Health
Counselling and therapy services focused on reducing the severity of, and/or remedying, the emotional, social, behavioural and self-regulation problems of children and youth. Counselling and therapy services can include a range of modalities (e.g., individual, group, family or play-based) as well as clinical practices (e.g. cognitive-behaviour therapy). Services are provided within the context of the family, culture and community.
Focus: Mental Health
Family Connection Therapy focuses on reducing the severity of and/or remedying the mental health problems of children and youth that are psychological, emotional, social and behavioural-related. These services differ from counselling and therapy with respect to the intensity of the service needed to meet the child/youth’s identified needs.
Focus: Mental Health
Crisis support services are immediate, time-limited services delivered in response to an imminent mental health crisis or an urgent situation as assessed by a mental health professional that places the child/youth or others at serious risk of harm.
Focus: Mental Health
GLOW is a weekly social youth group that works to build self-esteem, a sense of connection to community, and pride about diverse sexual and gender identities.
Focus: Mental Health
DBT is a comprehensive program with several specific forms of treatment. After four weeks of pretreatment to build motivation and orient to the program, clients participate simultaneously in ongoing individual psychotherapy and family skills group.
Focus: Mental Health
In-home coaching and support for parents/caregivers who would like to develop their parenting strategies to support their child/youth’s mental health.
Focus: Mental Health
Group and/or individual support for caregivers to understand and develop attachment parenting skills.
Focus: Mental Health
This program provides support while on a wait list for an eating disorders treatment program and is not an eating disorders treatment program itself