Focus: Mental Health
The In-Home Family Service (IFS) is provided by Child & Youth Workers to assist parents in how to respond to their child in ways in the home that support them in co-regulating emotions. Supports offered may include strategies to support the health behavioural / emotional development of the child, parent education, advocacy, referrals to other community programs, and supporting families during difficult transitions.
Focus: Mental Health
School Community Intervention Partnership (SCIP), provides effective early intervention for elementary school children in senior kindergarten to grade 5 who experience difficulties in emotional and behavioral self-regulation. This program offers: consultation, intake, and assessment, case management and service coordination, parent/caregiver skill building, support.
Focus: Mental Health
This program serves children and youth presenting with mental health concerns. A direct, one-time consultation with a mental health specialist that can help to provide diagnostic clarification, treatment recommendations, medication review, assist in managing safety risk, etc.
Consultations are offered via video conferencing (OTN / Zoom Healthcare).
Focus: Mental Health
Crisis Response and 24/7 telephone support for children, youth and families with brief follow-up counselling in urgent situations.
Focus: Mental Health
Live in treatment programs are designed to reduce the severity of mental health challenges, strengthen coping and resilience, and improve functioning at home, school and in the community. Families accessing intensive services become part of a treatment team that may include (as needed) child and youth counselling, family therapy, psychiatry, psychology, nursing, special education and other clinical supports.
Focus: Mental Health
H.A.V.E.N. (Healing, Accessible Care, Vision, Empowerment, Nourishment) is a day treatment eating disorders program that supports youth with disordered eating and/or a diagnosed eating disorder in a community-based setting.
Focus: Mental Health
Family Therapy Brief Services includes up to three Family Therapy Sessions, delivered over a 6-week period. Full Family Therapy includes up to 14 sessions spread over 3-to-6-month period. This service is provided by Child and Family Therapist or Focused Family Therapy Interns. Therapeutic modalities such as solution-focused, brief narrative, emotion-focused therapy, cognitive-behavioral and family systems are offered within this program.
Focus: Mental Health
Treatment classrooms meet children’s education needs while participating in intensive services at Vanier. The W.D. Sutton School at Vanier is staffed and supported by the Thames Valley District School Board. The TVDSB teachers are assisted by child and youth counsellors to support students in small classrooms that rarely exceed eight students.