Intensive Therapy Service

Program Description

The Intensive Therapy Service program supports children, youth, and their families who are experiencing significant to severe, complex, or chronic mental health challenges that substantially impair functioning across most areas of daily life, including home, school, and the community. This service provides coordinated and goal-focused therapeutic intervention with an emphasis on reducing serious emotional, social, behavioural, and self-regulation difficulties while promoting stability and improved functioning.

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 ensure that services are comprehensive, coordinated, and appropriately matched to the complexity and intensity of identified needs;
• To collaboratively develop and implement individualized strategies that build on existing strengths, knowledge, and skills to support sustained progress toward therapeutic goals;
• To reduce the impact of severe emotional, social, behavioural, and self-regulation difficulties; and
• To improve functioning and stability across key areas of daily life, including home, school, and the community.

Eligibility Criteria

• Children and youth, up to 17 years of age, who are experiencing significant to severe, complex, or chronic mental health problems, that substantially impair their functioning across most areas of daily life, including home, school, and the community.

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.