 Counselling Programs
Ongoing Service Coordination:
Service coordination provides advocacy and/or brokerage in partnership with the client.
Individual and Family Counselling:
Individual and family counselling is offered to youth (and their families) who are in our Residential and Day Treatment programs. Our counselling programs are attuned to the individual strengths and personal needs of each client and their family. Once major goals have been reached, follow-up is offered to help sustain the improvements.
Intensive Home Based Services:
Intensive Child and Family Services (ICFS) and Priority Access for Child Welfare Clients:
This family focused, time limited service (3 – 5 months), strives to strengthen the ability of youth to function effectively in their home, school and/or community through the use of intensive mental health interventions in the home, school and/or community. Given the short-term nature of this service, it is important that the youth and family have well defined goals that can be achieved within the appropriate time frame.
Whatever It Takes (WIT):
The WIT program, a collaboration between East Metro Youth Services and The Griffin Centre helps the service system respond to the needs of children and youth aged 0 -18 years, with complex clinical profiles, complex service needs that require cross sector service provision. WIT provides services to the entire service delivery system experiencing difficulties finding or providing appropriate services for these children, youth and their families. This service is available in Scarborough, Toronto, East York and York Region.
Transitional Support Services:
This service is provided in East Toronto and is intended to facilitate the process of admission and discharge planning for youth who are admitted to the Child and Adolescent Units at Rouge Valley Health Centre (RVHC) - Centennary Hospital and Toronto East General Hospital (TEGH). This service can be accessed to avert admission where possible.
Group Counselling:
We provide a range of groups to help adolescents deal with social isolation, difficulties with the emotional expression/management of anger and general social skills development. Similarly, we provide parent groups that are supportive and/or psycho-educational, addressing specific mental health issues and enhancing parenting skills. Different groups are offered throughout different times of the year.
Diversity in Action Scarborough (DIAS):
DIAS is a collaborative initiative of the Psychology Foundation of Canada and the agencies of the East Quadrant Children’s Services Network (East Metro Youth Services, Youthlink, Aisling Discoveries and Rosalie Hall). DIAS’ mission is to enable local agencies to provide services that address the unmet mental health-related needs of newcomer children, youth and their families, with newcomers defined those individuals who have been in Canada five years or less. Currently DIAS is conducting an Afghan Community Pilot Project. The primary purpose of this project is to increase the availability, and use of needed and culturally appropriate services for Scarborough’s Afghan newcomer families. The DIAS Afghan Community Project Coordinator works on behalf of the partner agencies.
ADAPT - Immigrant Settlemement and Adapation Program and HOST Program:
ADAPT, funded by Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), provides newcomer youth and their families with the support, skills, information and training they need during the settlement and acculturation process. Within ADAPT there are the following programs:
Immigrant Settlement and Adaptation Program (ISAP):
The primary purpose of this program is to reach out to and support newcomer youth through group workshops and information sessions for youth from the Afghan, Tamil, Somali, and South and East Asian communities. The ISAP outreach work involves providing information to the newcomers upon arrival to Canada in English as well as other languages required, conducting needs assessments, referrals to community resources, providing practical guidance to assist the participants with problems of everyday living, interpretation and translation, service bridging, employment related services and solution focused counselling.
HOST Program:
This program provides newcomer youth and their families with the support, skills and training they need during the settlement and acculturation process. The newcomer youth also receive training to help them develop leadership, facilitation and employment related skills. 16 newcomer youth are recruited by the Host Program youth assistants to the phase 1 of the program that focuses on providing the youth with information, skills and knowledge to help them adapting, settling and integrating into Canadian life. During this phase the youth are individually matched with youth volunteers. The youth attend a number of workshops on topics such as negotiation and listening skills, cross cultural and diversity skills. In phase 2, the youth gain knowledge on various topics such as gang violence, anti oppression and conflict resolution and are able to share them with the future newcomer youth.
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