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1Call1Click.ca: Finding the right mental health care for kids and youth just got a lot easier

OTTAWA — Today, the Kids Come First Health Team officially launched1Call1Click.ca, a unique service in Canada that makes it easier for children, youth and families of Eastern Ontario to find the care they need for mental health and addiction.

The 1Call1Click.ca initiative coordinates more than 20 organizations offering mental health and addiction care for children, youth and their families — addressing a need that families and Kids Come First Health Team partners across the region have often...

Happy Anniversary! One year of making home and community care better for kids and families

September 23, 2022

This week marks one year of pediatric home and community care at CHEO and the benefits to thousands of children, youth and families are ones we can all celebrate.

Last September, the Ontario Minister of Health transferred responsibility for the delivery of this care in Ottawa and the Champlain region to CHEO’s Integrated Home and Community Care program as an initiative of the Kids Come First Health Team.

Since the transfer, families of kids with complex medical care needs have...

Report calls for simplified access to francophone health services

27 April 2022

A new system capacity report from the Francophone working group of the Kids Come First Health Team assesses access to French-language health services in the Champlain region and finds a resounding need to improve, facilitate and centralize access to care, with a priority focus on service for mental health and addictions, and medically complex care.

Led by the Francophone working group of Kids Come First, Portrait of health service needs for francophone children and youth and their...

Creating the Future of Francophone Pediatric Health Services with the Kids Come First Health Team

13 April 2022

In 2016, hundreds of children, youth, families and providers in the Champlain LHIN came together to produce the THRIVE report, Canada’s first-ever pediatric health services capacity plan.

Nearly 50% of Ontario’s Francophone children and youth live in the Champlain region.  To supplement the regional THRIVE plan, the Kids Come First Health Team made it a priority to address the needs of the underrepresented Francophone children and youth by developing population-specific strategies,...