CASA Classrooms

Service offers:

• mental health care in local classrooms to address the need for services closer to students
• individual and group therapy, psychiatric care, and medication while the child receives regular school programming
• a co-ordinated approach by a mental health team and a classroom teacher to bridge a child's mental health and school needs

Caregivers will receive mental health education, connections to community supports, and resources to better support their child / youth. Students will remain in the program for approximately half the school year.

• students in grades 4 through 12
• with a mental health diagnosis
• who attend a school within CASA Classroom’s geographical school area

• have not responded as expected to previous therapy and continue to have symptoms that impact their home, social, and school life
• are currently under the care of a physician, nurse practitioner, or psychiatrist
• and are willing to participate in individual and group therapy with their family

• children and youth must be referred by their school

There may be a waiting period.

 Program hours vary.