OTTAWA Finding the right help for mental health can be a challenge, especially at a difficult time.
1Call1Click.ca is a new service that hopes to make finding the right mental health care for kids and youth a lot easier. The service was launched by the Kids Come First Health Team, which coordinates more than 20 organizations offering mental health and addiction care for children, youth, and their families in eastern Ontario. “This concept is really just unburdening them from the uncertainty, and all of the time and energy that it takes to search for the services that they need and to connect them to the right care almost right away,” says Joanne Lowe, Executive Director of Youth Services Bureau of Ottawa and VP for Mental Health and Addiction at CHEO. “1Call1Click.ca is really here to help on their very first call.
New service streamlines mental health, addiction services for children, teens
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OTTAWA The Youth Services Bureau, CHEO and Le Cap are aiming to address a service gap for youth in Ottawa with complex mental health needs with the launch of a new bilingual live-in treatment program. The three partners of the Kids Come First Health Team unveiled a program called Step Up Step Down for treatment between hospitalizations and community care. Step Up Step Down is all about working to create better, faster access to the right care at the right time for youth and families, said Joanne Lowe, executive director of YSB and vice-president of mental health and addictions and CHEO.