Addiction and Mental Health Services for Children and Youth

• Mental health problems or with problems with alcohol or other drugs
• Emotional problems
• Serious behavioural problems
• Family relationship problems

Youth services teams provide of mental health and addiction services including:

• Psychologists;
• Social workers;
• Community workers;
• Guidance counsellors;
• Nurses.

Liaison officers from the Department of Social Development, Education and Early Childhood Development, Department of Justice or Department of Public Safety take part in clinical discussions and the development of joint plans.

Services are confidential and free. They build on the strengths of a youth and their family.

We can help.

Our services

• Assessment of your situation and needs;
• Mental health and addiction services;
• Crisis intervention;
• Counselling after a traumatic event;
• Suicide prevention and intervention.

To access our services

• Services are available to children and youth up to age 19 (age 21 if still attending secondary school);
• You DON’T NEED to be referred by a doctor;
• Youth can call us themselves;
• Children’s parents or guardians can also call us.

Hours of operation

From 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday to Friday

Pedopsychiatry (child psychiatry) for children and youth

A child or youth may need to be hospitalized in a pedopsychiatry unit to receive more sustained care. Pedopsychiatry units fully assess youth and stabilize their symptoms so they can return to their community quickly.

Family members and other important people in their lives will be invited to participate in their recovery plan.

Four regional hospitals have pedopsychiatry units. A doctor may ask for a child or youth to be hospitalized as needed..

• Dr. Georges-L.-Dumont University Hospital Centre
• Edmundston Regional Hospital
• Campbellton Regional Hospital
• Chaleur Regional Hospital