Specific youth mental health services

Specific services are for youth with moderate to severe symptoms of mental illness. 

The mandate of this service is to provide psychosocial, psychological or rehabilitation services adapted to the youth’s needs, to provide support and accompaniment, especially for the learning of strategies that encourage recovery. 

Treatment lasts between 15 and 20 meetings, depending on the mental health condition, overall ability to function, and the goals of the interdisciplinary intervention plan which are made through collaboration between the multidisciplinary team, the youth and the family. 

To make a request for service, contact Info-Social 811, option 2.

Specialized youth mental health services

Pediatric psychiatry on-call service in the emergency room

The pediatric psychiatry consultation service is provided at the Saint-Jérôme hospital for youth experiencing mental health emergencies who come to one of our institution’s emergency rooms. 

Child and adolescent psychiatric outpatient clinics

A youth referred to the outpatient clinic has symptoms related to mental illness that have a serious impact on their overall functioning, such as recurrent crises, atypical regression, functional breakdown, resistance to pharmacological treatment, psychotic symptoms, etc.

The mandate of this service is to carry out a pediatric psychiatric diagnostic assessment of the youth, and to provide the necessary interventions and psychotherapy, either by requesting complementary assessments from specialized services, or by requesting support from local or specific teams in order to meet the youth’s needs.

To do this, the youth mental health access point must receive a request from one of the referents below to meet the youth and direct them, if required, to the outpatient clinic. The possible referents are:

• The attending physician.
• The child and adolescent psychiatrist in a hospital emergency room.
• The child and adolescent psychiatrist following a hospitalization.

Intensive youth ambulatory service

The CISSS des Laurentides regional intensive youth ambulatory service is located in the new mental health pavilion in Saint-Jérôme. It is provided to youth between the ages of 6 and 17 with a diagnosis of mental illness issued by a child and adolescent psychiatrist. The youth must also:

• Be in a state of functional breakdown in one or many spheres because of their mental health condition. 
• Be willing to participate in the program and to be actively involved in it. 
• Have the ability to function in a group, to understand their mental health condition, and to put recovery strategies into action.

The child and adolescent psychiatric hospitalization unit

This CISSS des Laurentides regional child and adolescent psychiatric hospitalization service is located in the new mental health pavilion in Saint-Jérôme. 

This service is provided to youth between the ages of 6 and 17 who require hospitalization because of diagnostic questions related to complex symptomatology, severe impairment of overall functioning, comorbidities and therapeutic impasses.

The mandate of child and adolescent psychiatric hospitalization is to assess, treat, stabilize and refer young people with acute, specific and intensive needs that cannot be met by the outpatient services of the CISSS des Laurentides.