Intensive Therapy Service

Program Description

The Intensive Therapy Service program supports children and youth who are experiencing significant to severe, complex, or chronic mental health challenges that substantially impact functioning across most areas of daily life, including home, school, and community settings.

The program delivers coordinated, goal-focused, and individualized therapeutic interventions aimed at reducing serious emotional, social, behavioural, and self-regulation difficulties, while promoting stability and improved functioning. Services are evidence-informed and tailored to each family’s needs.

A strengths-based, family-centred approach guides all work, with a focus on stabilization, risk reduction, and enhancing overall functioning while addressing complex emotional, behavioural, social, and self-regulation challenges.

Program Goals

• To provide responsive and intensive therapeutic support to children, youth, and their families experiencing significant to severe and complex mental health needs;
• To deliver comprehensive, evidence-informed interventions that are proportionate to the severity, complexity, and chronicity of presenting concerns;
• To collaboratively develop and implement individualized service plans that build on strengths and support sustained progress toward identified goals;
• To reduce risk, stabilize functioning, and address severe emotional, behavioural, and self-regulation difficulties; and
• To improve functioning and promote stability across key domains, including home, school, and community.

Eligibility Criteria

Intensive Therapy Service is available to children and youth from 7 to 17 years of age who:

• Are experiencing significant to severe, complex, and/or chronic mental health challenges that substantially impair their functioning across most areas of daily life, including home, school, and the community;
• Present with high levels of risk, acuity, or complexity that require intensive, multi-modal, and/or multi-sectoral intervention; and
• Require coordinated, sustained, and higher-frequency intervention to achieve stabilization and meaningful improvement in functioning.

Referral and Intake Process

• Accessing our services begins at Central Intake. To facilitate the intake process, we recommend that you complete the online self-referral form, available here.
• If you prefer to complete the self-referral over the telephone, please call us at 1-877-539-0463, and our team will support you.
• Once a referral is received, our team will contact you to schedule an intake appointment, where we will get to know your strengths, needs, and concerns, and complete a standardized screening tool to better understand the level of support required; this process helps determine whether this service is the best fit or if an alternate service may better meet your or your child’s unique needs.