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Tele-Mental Health for Children and Youth

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Tele-Mental Health for Children and Youth

Providing Supports for our Children and Youth

The Tele-Mental Health Service offers improved access to specialized mental health consults for children and youth in rural, remote and under-served communities using video conferencing. This includes First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and Francophone children, youth and their families.

Video conferencing helps to connect children and youth, who are already receiving mental health services, to a specialist who can address their issues. Services are culturally safe and offered as close to home as possible.

Our Tele-Mental Health Coordinator conducts a ‘Service Readiness Review’ for every referred child/youth with the referring agency and works in partnership (where appropriate) with the community service provider to review alternate local mental health supports and determine that the service will meet the needs of the child/youth, and then follows up to ensure ongoing care management.

Tele-Mental Health for Children and Youth

Location Availability

Our service area covers the existing SOAHAC catchment area, as well as additional territory as far north as Nippissing First Nation and southeast to Tyendinaga.

We offer services in the following locations:
Tele-Mental Health for Children and Youth

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Tele-Mental Health for Children and Youth

How to Access this Service

The Tele-Mental Health Service offers improved access to specialized mental health consults for children and youth in rural, remote and under-served communities using video conferencing. This includes First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and Francophone children, youth and their families.

Video conferencing helps to connect children and youth, who are already receiving mental health services, to a specialist who can address their issues. Services are culturally safe and offered as close to home as possible.

Our Tele-Mental Health Coordinator conducts a ‘Service Readiness Review’ for every referred child/youth with the referring agency and works in partnership (where appropriate) with the community service provider to review alternate local mental health supports and determine that the service will meet the needs of the child/youth, and then follows up to ensure ongoing care management.

Community Resources

Offers confidential and non-judgemental peer support through telephone, text and chat services.

Offers free, 24/7, confidential support to young people.

Provides free, confidential support services for post-secondary students.

If you’re in crisis, call the hotline at 1-877-209-1266. It’s available day and night, throughout Canada.