Agency Partners

Chimo is a not-for-profit Ontario Children’s Mental Health agency licensed and funded under the Child and Family Services Act, administered by the Ministry of Children and Youth Services. Chimo provides intervention services for children, adolescents, and their families who experience severe behavioural, emotional, social and learning problems in their daily life. The Chimo program provides Day Treatment for children and youth between 5-18 years of age and Residential Treatment programs for youth between 12-18 years of age. Referrals by CAS, medical professionals and families.

Chimo Youth and Family Services

Collaborative Community Connections is a private operation that provides support to individuals from across Ontario between 17 and 25 years of age. Individuals are referred by Children's Aid Societies and/or Adult Service Support Agencies. The facility provides a day program in Oshawa for school credit completion, life skills support, job skills and personal life management.

Collaborative Community Connections

Durham Family Court Clinic (DFCC) has a mandate to provide assessments and service brokerage for youth in conflict with the law appearing before the Durham Family Courts. The Collaborative Day Treatment Program is one of the many programs and services offered by DFCC. This program provides a therapeutic environment for youth experiencing difficulty coping in the education system.  Through individualized therapeutic and academic approaches, the program strives to establish a successful learning experience that will promote the youths’ knowledge, skills and values to enhance their life options.  DFCC works in partnership with, and accepts referrals from, the Durham District School Board, the Durham Catholic District School Board, the Ministry of Children and Youth Services and Durham Children’s Aid Society.

Durham Family Court Clinic

Enterphase Child and Family Services is a residential treatment agency that works with latency and adolescent children and their families. Enterphase employs a multi-disciplinary, multi-systematic treatment model that includes family, community, residential care, Day Treatment, Individual Psychotherapy in additional to and in conjunction with Psychiatric and psychological services. The emphasis of individualized treatment plans involving varied treatment modes, i.e., play therapy, anger management, impulse control and expressive arts, are encompassed with the Enterphase Clinical Support Services. Residential and day treatment programs for children and youth between 4-18 years of age.  Referrals by Durham CAS and Metro CAS.

Enterphase Child & Family Services

Fostering Family Relations accepts referrals primarily from Children’s Aid Societies throughout the province to provide children with placements in private homes. Children placed within the homes are between the ages of 6 months and 17 years of age, including both male and female children, and can present with multiple diagnoses and often have specific issues pertaining to developmental and social concerns.

Fostering Families Relations

Frontenac Youth Services is a non-profit Ontario Children’s Mental Health agency that provides assistance to emotionally and behaviorally disordered adolescents (12-18 years) and their families within the Durham region. Referrals by CAS, medical professionals, families and academic institutions. The agency provides a wide variety of services to the community, including: Outpatient, Residential, Day Treatment, Aftercare, Individual Therapy, Family Therapy, and Group Therapy. Dual Diagnosis programming and the Expelled Students programs are available when warranted. Generally, adolescents remain in the Day Treatment Program up to two years. In the second year, increasing time is spent integrating the adolescents back to regular school programming.

Frontenac Youth Services

Kennedy House provides services to the Youth Justice sector, operating secure custody and detention programs. Kennedy House Youth Centre in Ajax is a 12 bed secure facility offering closed custody residential treatment programs for male youth between 12-18 years of age. Referrals from courts.

Kennedy House

Kinark Child and Family Services is a non-profit Ontario Children’s Mental Health agency that provides a full range of free and confidential programs and services to children and youth with mental health issues as well as support to their families/caregivers. Kinark offers a range of centre and community-based services, including: Crisis Response, Individual and Family Therapy, and Day Treatment, addition to many other types of therapeutic programs. Direct Response provides a brief intervention for families directly following a referral from Central Intake. Day treatment program for children between 0-12 years of age. Referrals by medical professionals, families and Durham CAS.

Kinark Child & Family Services

Lake Ridge Community Support Services professional staff provide support to individuals, community agencies, families, educators and other professionals working with persons having a developmental disability or Autism Spectrum Disorder through the provision of treatment, educational and consultation services. Lake Ridge Community Support Services specializes in the provision of Behaviour Therapy Services (based on the science of Applied Behaviour Analysis).   

Lake Ridge Community Support Services

Residential/inpatient treatment program and Day treatment program for school aged clients between 12-19 years of age.  Referrals from medical professionals. The Intensive Ambulatory Program (I.A.P.) accepts referrals after an initial assessment is completed by a clinician or psychiatrist in one of the other Child, Youth and Family program components (urgent care, outpatient, intake, or in-patient). The average length of stay for this program is eight to ten weeks. Following the completion of the program, the patient is discharged with recommendations. The discharge plan is discussed throughout the course of the program in order to ensure smooth transitions and appropriate linkages.

Lakeridge Health Corporation

The Murray McKinnon House and the Harold McNeill House service the Region of Durham.  The Open Detention and Open Custody Homes provide short term placement for Young Persons in Conflict with the Law (12 to 17 years) who are awaiting a court appearance or service their disposition as ordered by the Youth Court. Each facility is capable of housing 9 youths (all male). Resident youths attend a school program (where appropriate) throughout the entire year. Section Classrooms, located in each of the residences are directly affiliated with the Durham District School Board. The Murray McKinnon Foundation has also opened the McKinnon Attendance Centre (MAC) in Oshawa and the Ajax Alternative Learning Centre, providing Community Based Programs, including the Reintegration Outreach Support Program and Non- Residential Attendance Centre.

Murray McKinnon Foundation

Ontario Shores Centre offers Day and residential/inpatient treatment programs for children/adolescents between 12-21 years of age.  Referrals are centralized. Ontario Shores provides consultation, assessment, treatment, rehabilitation and transition services for individuals suffering from a serious mental illness. The interdisciplinary team includes Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Social Workers, Child and Youth Workers, Occupational Therapy, Recreational Therapy, Nursing, Medical Staff and Educational Personnel.  The Adolescent Program offers comprehensive services to children 12-18 years of age including Out Patient/Outreach Services, Day Treatment, Inpatient stabilization and rehabilitation. The Dual Diagnosis Program provides services to individuals who are developmentally delayed with a serious mental illness and who present with significant behavioural challenges.

Ontario Shores for Mental Health Sciences

Youth Connections offers residential care and day treatment programs for boys between 8–19 years of age. They utilize a variety of therapeutic techniques to encourage healthy development. Youth Connections develops and fosters healthy relationships. They assist young people to strive towards attaining contentment and future success by recognizing and managing their emotions. Youth Connections operates Section classrooms that function in collaboration with each location. All boys begin their academic programming within those units and their re-integration to the mainstream is considered by utilizing a carefully planned pace. 

Youth Connections Inc.