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The material in this Resource Guide is intended to direct parents and caregivers, and members of the community to assist children with mental illness. It will hopefully help you to understand mental illness, the support services and resources available for children and their families, and how they can advocate for better support and acceptance from the community and the child’s school. By its nature, this Resource Guide provides information about all of these topics, but is not a complete review of the issues raised or services available for the support and treatment of children’s mental health problems. This Resource Guide is current to August 2011.
This Resource Guide is for general reference, and is intended to direct concerned parties to other, more complete sources of information about supports and resources available to them. This Guide is not intended to cover every possible issue that you may encounter when struggling with children’s mental health problems.

This Resource Guide should not be relied on as legal advice or a professional opinion. Anyone having specific questions about the contents of this Resource Guide or dealing with children’s mental health issues, including finding support and treatment and accessing resources to assist in this regard, may wish to consult kidsLINK which provides children’s mental health services in the Region, or other children’s mental health agencies, or you may contact Children’s Mental Health Ontario for more information about services in the province, or any of the other services and support groups listed in this Guide. If you have a question about your legal rights, you may wish to consult a lawyer.

  • kidsLINK can be contacted at:

1855 Notre Dame Drive
P.O. Box 190
St. Agatha, Ontario
Canada N0B 2L0

Phone: (519) 746-KIDS (5437)

Website: www.kidslinkcares.com

  • Children’s Mental Health Ontario website - www.kidsmentalhealth.ca
  • Parents for Children’s Mental Health (PCMH) Head Office website - www.pcmh.ca
  • Parents for Children’s Mental Health Waterloo Region - www.PCMHwaterloo.com2008 PCMH Resource Guide Committee: Barb Ward, Liz Nickason, Laura Coughlin, Tina Blanchette, Carol Parr, Roxanne Warren

Copyright© Parents for Children’s Mental Health – Waterloo Region. All rights reserved.

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Mental illness is often stigmatized in any culture. It is important that you obtain information to help you treat your child’s illness. Don’t wait until the situation is urgent. It can be very lonely and scary for the parent raising a child who has special needs even when you have lived in this country from birth. Find someone to talk to and talk to your doctor.

Cambridge and Kitchener have Multicultural Centres. The YMCA also has a Cross Cultural and Community Services Department at the Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge YMCA. They can refer you to someone who can translate this information for you. Over 40 languages are available for help with translation. There are fees for this service.

 

Links or Useful Resources for TRANSLATION/MULTICULTURAL SERVICES:

Kitchener-Waterloo YMCA Cross Cultural and Immigration Services – 519-579-9622 or www.kwymca.org
Cambridge YMCA Cross Cultural and Immigration Services – 519-621-1621 or www.ymcacambridge.com
Kitchener-Waterloo Multicultural Center – 519-745-2531 or www.kwmc.on.ca
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) - www.aacap.org
Centre for Addictions and Mental Health - http://www.camh.ca - fact sheets in 16 languageshttp://www.camh.ca/About_Addiction_Mental_Health/Multilingual_Resources/index.html
Centre for Community Based Research – 519-741-1318
Cultural Profiles Project - www.cp-pc.ca
Yellow Pages - http://www.yellowpages.ca/ or check your local listings under “Translation”