Three Children’s Mental Health Agencies:

collaboratively provide this service to the Durham Region with the support of the The Ministry of Community and Social Services - Ministry of Children and Youth Services

This program offers timely accessible service to children, youth and their families in their home, school and communities.  Intensive Services uses formal and informal supports and linkages to other services and family and community supports.

Intensive support is given to children and youth who are at risk of losing their place in the family home, school or childcare.  In-home support can be given to parents regarding parenting, child management and family relationships.

Referral criteria includes:

  • risk of child/adolescent not remaining in the home
  • multiple need family, including frequent users of service system
  • child/adolescent needs intensive support
  • child/adolescent exhibiting acute crisis, should not go on waitlists for other services

 

Program supports include individual and family counselling, case management, links to community supports.

Durham Region Crisis Response is a community based service offering crisis line and mobile crisis response for children, youth and their families. A child, youth or family member can call when a child/youth to age 18 is experiencing a crisis that is not imminently life threatening but requires immediate intervention such as depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts or aggressive behaviour etc. This service is provided by the following partnering agencies: Frontenac Youth Services, Chimo Youth Services, Durham Mental Health Services and Kinark Child and Family Services.

For more information call: 1-800-742-1890

Or open the attached brochure in PDF format.