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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
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Community-based organizations that provide direct health services received a 2.3% funding increase in 2008-09.

Services for children and youth

Child and youth mental health services work to meet the mental health needs of children and youth in Saskatchewan. Services are available to children and youth with serious and persistent mental health disorders, with less severe mental health and behavioural challenges and those who are at risk of developing mental health and behavioural problems.

Services provided by health region mental health clinics for children and youth in most service areas including: (Please note that not all of these services are necessarily available in every health region.)

  • Intake/Screening/Referral
  • Assessment
  • Case management
  • Case consultation
  • Treatment
  • Eating disorder treatment
  • Parenting education
  • Services for sexually abused children
  • Adolescent sexual offender assessment
  • Behavioural assessment, management and treatment
  • Attention deficient hyperactivity treatment
  • Family therapy
  • Anger management
  • Services for sexually intrusive children
  • Adolescent sexual offender treatment
  • Suicide intervention and prevention/psychosocial trauma response

Inpatient services for children and youth are provided in a six-bed adolescent ward in the Community Assessment Treatment Unit at Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon.

A number of community-based organizations also receive support from health regions to provide services for children and youth. These organizations include the Rainbow Youth Centre and Autism Resource Centre, both in Regina, and the Saskatoon Society for Autism in Saskatoon.


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