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Youth Mental Health

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Youth Addictions

Your Story Counselling offers Individual, Couples, Family, Sex, & Trauma Counselling for a variety of needs. All our clinicians hold a masters level training and more in Psychotherapy and utilize evidence-based practices and approaches. Our Therapist Intern clinic offers low cost and affordable therapy options. All Therapist Interns are Masters levels students supervised by a Registered Psychotherapist.

Youth Addictions

Treatment for clients age 16 to 24 who have substance use problems, with or without concurrent mental health issues. Offers consultations and assessment; limited case management; outpatient counselling in group and individual formats; aftercare groups; family support; and a comprehensive day program for clients who wish to attend high school and/or work on life skills in addition to obtaining substance treatment.

Youth Addictions

This service is for children up to 18 years of age who are experiencing social, emotional or behavioural problems.  Families are also involved.   Services Include: * Brief and longer term (individual & family counselling) counselling * Groups for parents and children * Consultation with a multi-disciplinary team if appropriate * Service coordination with other agencies * Supportive services while you wait * Referral to other community services if appropriate * Follow-up consultations Services are offered in: * Alliston * Barrie * Bradford * Collingwood * Orillia

Community Mental Health Centers

Programs and activities available in-person and through online conferencing tools such as Zoom, Google Meet, WhatsApp, contact for informationIndividual and group mentoring, client needs assessments, mentee/mentor matching, volunteer interviews and volunteer mentor training, group workshops, tutoring, educational and recreational activitiesOne-to-One Peer Mentoring ProgramFor low-income, single-parent, immigrant, newcomer, and refugee youth, program matches children and youth with trained volunteer mentorsGroup Mentoring ProgramTrained and experienced volunteer mentors assist with activities to help newcomers transition to their new community and establish social and professional networks focus on citizenship and civic engagement or skills, career, and leadership development case management and parent support girl empowerment program boy empowerment program mandatory mentor training and workshops, topics include child abuse, multiculturalism, behaviour management, mentoring, bullying, mental health, learning challenges literature in Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Farsi, Hindi, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Urdu monthly activities

Addiction Treatment

Kairos is a counselling service which specializes in treatment for youth who are experiencing any level of substance abuse, personally or with a family member Our service is available as an outreach program in all local elementary and secondary schools, as well as alternative education sites and group homes Due to funding, the service is limited to ALCDSB high schools in Belleville and Trenton

Youth Mental Health & Youth Addictions & Mental Health

The YMCA Youth Gambling Awareness Program (YGAP) is a collaboration between the YMCA of Greater Toronto and 18 local YMCAs, consisting of 19 Youth Outreach Workers (YOWs) across Ontario. The Program is funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health Promotion.   Goal:To implement a prevention and education program designed to reduce the potential harms associated with youth gambling. Approach:We do not make value judgments regarding gambling; rather, we see it as an activity that people may or may not engage in. Through harm reduction, we aim to support young people to make healthy decisions about gambling.   We Serve:The program addresses the needs of youth ages 8 to 24 and people who influence and work with youth living in the province of Ontario.

Mental Health Counselling & Mental Health Treatment Services

Offers group counselling. Provides weekly support.

Youth Addictions

Are you having problems with a relationship, or a recent break-up? Too much fighting at home? Struggling with questions of sexual orientation or gender identity? The Youth Mental Health Walk-in Clinic offers single counselling sessions for youth whose needs are more immediate. Often, one of the most difficult steps can be gathering enough courage to ask for help. Getting help sooner can make all the difference. Is the Walk-in Clinic right for me? * You are 12 to 20 years old—or the parent of a teen * You think the solution is in your control * You need reassurance that your reaction to a troubling situation is normal * You can identify, with the help of a counsellor, helpful solutions, past successes, and reasonable expectations * You are “stuck” in a feeling (anger, guilt, grief) towards a past event and are looking for ways to get “unstuck.” A single counselling session may be enough to address your needs. Benefits include: * Feeling less worried * Preventing a temporary problem from getting worse * Feeling less isolated * Knowing more about the available resources in the Ottawa region * More ideas about how to manage the problem The Walk-in is less likely to benefit you if: * You are feeling suicidal right now or are actively suffering from a serious mental health diagnosis * You need ongoing support to work through and escape the effects of abuse How to access the Walk-in Clinic Youth (aged 12 to 20) and parents can come to the Mental Health Hub during walk-in clinic hours. Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12 noon to 8 pm (last appointment − 6 pm) How to get there We are located by the Lincoln Fields Transit Station. Bus #85 also passes directly in front of the Hub.

Youth Addictions

We provide a crisis line in mental health support for youth experiencing emotions of sadness, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, aggressive and threatening behaviour, or who may have concerns about disturbing or unusual behaviours. Our crisis worker conducts a risk assessment involving the child or youth in the hospital, in the client"s home if the situation is safe, or in an office, to assist with determining the level of risk and what actions in which to proceed.

Youth Addictions

The Youth Psychiatry Program at the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre (ROMHC) offers mental health services for youth aged 16-18. Programs include: * Youth Partial Hospitalization Unit (YPHU), Day Treatment, is a day treatment program for youth aged 12-19, located at Brookfield High School on 824 Brookfield Drive, Ottawa. (Exclusion criteria, i.e. youth who would NOT be a good fit with the program are those with * borderline intellectual ability * externalizing problems such as conduct disorder * autism spectrum disorder (ASD) * current substance use disorder) * Youth Residential Program, which is an inpatient psychiatric program for youth aged 15-19. Referral procedure: physicians can contact CHEO centralized intake at 613-737-2496 or toll free at 1-866-737-2496 to make a referral. If you are a youth or family member, speak to your doctor about a referral.

Youth Addictions

CMHA Simcoe County runs various programs to treat youth with mental illness and/or addiction. Programs include: *Individual counselling/treatment *Case management *Group therapy treating a wide variety of issues including self-esteem, emotions management, substance use, and ending self-abuse.

Community Mental Health Centers

Dedicated to identifying and meeting the needs of young people and their families in Ottawa who are experiencing difficulties related to: mental health family conflict physical, sexual and emotional abuse poverty employment difficulties homelessness substance use and abuse gender and cross-cultural issuesServices provided across the region include: mental health services crisis line for children, youth and families community services shelter and housing employment services for people of all ages youth justiceCommunity-based services offer: counselling services crisis intervention drop-in and health clinic for street-involved youth individual and family interventionOther programs include: Youth Mental Health Walk-in Clinic 24/7 Crisis Line Youth and Family Counselling Service Youth Engagement Program Downtown Services and Drop-in Youth Health Clinic Ethno Cultural Community Program Evelyn Horne Emergency Shelter and Transitional Housing for young women Young Men"s Emergency Shelter and Transitional Housing Non-Profit Housing for Youth Sherwood Youth Centre William E. Hay Centre Youth Mental Health Court Worker Anger Management Community Reintegration Youth Employment Services

Community Mental Health Centers & Crisis lines & In person crisis services & In person crisis services

COVID-19 (May 1, 2020): The mental health counselors are doing youth and family sessions and the walk-in clinic sessions by phone and video. Call 613-562-3004 for more information.Crisis response service can be accessed when other services are unavailable at the time to respond to those in need crisis line and online chat are available 24/7 short-term follow-up services and assessment for families or youth Effective interventions at the time of the crisis in order to reduce or divert unnecessary access to: hospital emergency rooms police contact children protection services residential placement short-term follow-up services and assessment

In person crisis services & Support Groups

Downtown Services and Drop-In (DSDI) is open.Services: support services and drop-in for youth crisis and individual short-term supportive counselling laundry facilities, showers, housing, and trusteeship services access to computers with internet access and telephones health clinic with a multidisciplinary health team outreach and needle exchange programsIssues addressed: poverty abuse health care employment school substance abuse sexual orientation loss