Healthy Minds/Healthy Children

Healthy Minds/Healthy Children offers a variety of resources and services to support and build capacity in primary care in the area of child and adolescent mental health. Our goals are:To help children and adolescents and their families access more services closer to home To build coordination within and across health regions and First Nations in Southern Alberta (e.g. supporting referrals/discharges to/from specialized or tertiary care) To facilitate the acquisition and sharing of knowledge and skills in children’s mental health among primary care practitioners across Alberta. Services and resources include:Consultation in-office, telephone, video conference/telehealth) to primary care physicians and clinicians Case or theme based inservicing or presentations on selected topics Internet-based professional-development modules in children’s mental health Practitioners" Desk Reference to aid in efficient identification and management of children’s mental health concerns Information prescriptions on various topics in children’s mental health that practitioners can provide to their patients and clients