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| MCFD > Child & Youth Mental Health > Mental Health Service Delivery System > Service Structure |
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Service Structure Child and Youth Mental Health provides a wide range of community-based specialized mental health services to mentally ill children and their families and to those at risk of or vulnerable to mental illness. Two complementary child and youth mental health service components have been established. First, a network of Ministry for Children and Family Development (MCFD) mental health staff and sessional psychiatrists function on specialized teams or in integrated child and family centres. Three contracted agencies in Prince George, Powell River and Vancouver/Richmond offer services and supports equivalent to MCFD staffed programs. Consistent with a multi-disciplinary approach to service provision, MCFD program staff typically include psychologists, social workers, counselors with masters degrees, and nurses. Second, an extensive program of contracted service agencies extends the MCFD staffed programs by providing specialized and mental health-related community-based services. While these services are funded directly by MCFD, they can be funded jointly with other ministries, and non-government sources, to achieve a desired level of service integration in communities. They are designed to complement or augment staffed services, and offer a flexible way of responding to varying regional needs. Within MCFD staffed services and contracted agency equivalents there are two major categories of service as follows:
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