Mental Health / Counselling - Children / Youth Mental Health - Counselling / Therapy

High Risk Services provides urgent assessment and support for youth (under the age of 19) at high risk for suicide or who are experiencing high risk mental and emotional distress.more info

South Island Child and Youth Early Psychosis Intervention (EPI) is a specialized service that provides prompt support, collaboration, education and mental health assessment to South Island children up to their 17th birthday who appear to be experiencing a decline in function and have auditory/visual hallucinations and/or delusions that may indicate early psychosis.more info

The Collaborative Psychiatric Outreach Project is a pilot project designed to improve access to child and youth psychiatry for children and youth with mental health concerns in several sub-populations of the South Island.more info

If there is an immediate mental health or substance use emergency, child and youth clients and their families can access services by visiting the hospital emergency room.more info

The Ledger Program is a resource that provides acute, in-patient, hospital based psychiatric services for children and youth from Vancouver Island. more info

The Anscomb Program supports children, youth and their families by evaluating and planning treatment for significant emotional, behavioral, psychological and psychiatric symptoms in order to increase the mental health and functioning of children and youth at home, at school and within their home community.more info

Child, Youth and Family Ambulatory Clinic at VGH or the Anscomb Program at the Queen Alexandra Centre for Children's Healthmore info

IMCRT is a collaboration between Child, Youth, and Family MH, Adult MHSU, and Greater Victoria police forces. Interdisciplinary MHSU clinicians work alongside plain-clothes police officers to provide a rapid, mobile, community-based response to people of all ages experiencing urgent/emergent mental health and substance use issues.more info

The Maples is an accredited facility that offers specialized programs and services to address the needs of young people (12 to 17 years old) who have a lot of mental health concerns or troubling behaviour.more info

About 70% of mental health challenges have their onset in childhood or youth. That’s why early identification and intervention is so critical and can lead to improved achievement in school and better health outcomes in life.more info