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• For more than 40 years, Vanier has been a leader in helping vulnerable children and youth overcome serious emotional, mental illness and behavioural problems.

• Vanier's treatment philosophy is to address mental health problems as early as possible to prevent problems from becoming life-long risks or barriers to healthy development.

• Every year, Vanier serves more than 1,000 children and youth (infancy to 14) who have mental health and behavioural issues.

• The most common issues treated at Vanier include depression, anxiety, ADHD, conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, attachment disorder and bipolar disorder.

• Programs are flexible and responsive to the specific needs of each family and include:

• crisis intervention 24/7
• early intervention, parent and child counseling
• short-term residential treatment program
• long term residential treatment program, Foster Care
• family and individual counseling, parent child interaction therapy
• day treatment including schooling, therapy, parent groups
• BET program for teens with concurrent disorders and problematic substance use/abuse
• outpatient treatment

• Vanier employs 120 full and part-time employees including Psychologists, social workers, and child and youth workers.

• The Crisis-Intake Team is the intake point for non-residential mental health treatment services for children and youth 0-18 and their families. C-IT refers to the following centres: Vanier Children's Centre, Craigwood Youth Services and Western Area Youth Services.

• Vanier is an accredited Children's Mental Health Centre and is a non-profit organization funded primarily by the Ministry of Children and Youth Services.

For more information, contact:

Joanne Sherin, Acting Executive Director
jsherin@vanier.com
519-433-3101, ext. 183