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RBC donates $1.5 M to help youth who need mental health and addiction services

RBC donates $1.5 M to help youth who need mental health and addiction services

Originally posted on Tuesday, October 06, 2020

Ottawa, ON — Today, the RBC Foundation presented $1.5 million to CHEO for the Kids Come First Health Team to improve access to youth mental health care in our community. This donation will support 1Call1Click.ca, a new initiative that will help Kids Come First create a single point of entry to Eastern Ontario’s system of care for mental health and addictions.

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Kids Comes First Health Team offers virtual backpack with back-to-school resources

Sep. 11, 2020

The Kids Come First Health Team is coming together to support kids, parents, school boards, teachers and other health-care professionals with their questions and concerns about returning to school during COVID-19. These resources are now in a single location to make it easy for everyone to find the information they need. 

Back-to-school season is always an anxious time, but this year is having a particularly profound effect on families. Over the summer, the Kids Come First Health...

Kids Come First extends its wrap-around support for at-risk children and youth

June 2, 2020

With safety top of mind, the Kids Come First Health Team has come together for some of the region’s most vulnerable children and youth — those who are, or at risk of, experiencing maltreatment, such as abuse or neglect — during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Home may not always be a safe place, but it is the only place young people have been allowed to be for weeks.

Add in school closures, and financial and emotional stresses on families, organizations working with at-risk families have seen...