Program Goals
The long-term goal of Child and Youth Mental Health (CYMH) is to partner with families and communities to improve mental health outcomes for children and youth in BC by:
- providing children and their families access to a basic continuum of timely, evidence-based mental health consultation, assessment and treatment services across the province.
- ensuring services are coordinated across public health and primary care, early child development, schools, special needs, child protection and addictions services right into adult services.
- promoting evidence-based services as the standard of care, backed up by training, education and monitoring.
- providing new resources for early intervention programs dealing with serious mental illness.
- reducing children's risk of developing mental illness through means such as public education and expert involvement across sectors.
- building capacity in families and communities so they are better able to prevent and mitigate potential effects of harmful factors in a child's environment.
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