Links Directory
Welcome to our growing lists of agencies, websites and resources related to children's mental health. Whenever possible we try to include Canadian and Ontario resources.
These sites are provided for your information only, and Children's Mental Health Ontario assumes no responsibility for their content. Please carefully evaluate the content of each site when you visit it, rather than simply take the content at face value.
Children's Aid Society of Toronto, Child Welfare Institute
The Children’s Aid Society of Toronto (CAST) Child Welfare Institute is a Branch of CAST. Its mission is to enhance services to children, youth and families who have experienced or are at risk of abuse and neglect, through the provision of quality training and consultation. The Institute also works to promote excellence in the field of child protection and to improve outcomes for children and youth through a focus on research, program evaluation and evidence based practice. The Institute sponsors courses, implementation support sessions and events.
http://www.childwelfareinstitute.torontocas.ca/
Community Education Services
The Community Education Service helps connect professionals and front-line staff to educational opportunities and research about evidence-based courses and interventions. On this webpage you will find current training opportunities in evidence-based interventions, resources for course leaders, and presentations about community education, evidence-based interventions, consumer health information, and other topics of interest. http://www.communityed.ca/ebi.cfm
Crisis & Trauma Resource Institute Inc.
The impact of issues like violence, trauma and suicide can have powerful and lasting effects on those involved. CTRI's training and consulting services are designed to help individuals, caregivers, communities and organizations prevent and cope with unfortunate and distressing events. http://www.ctrinstitute.com/
Ontario Association of Consultants, Counsellors, Psychometrists and Psychotherapists (OACCPP)
The OACCPP is an incorporated professional association formed in 1978 to represent providers of mental health services in the general areas of consulting, counselling, psychoeducational assessment and psychotherapy. Members work in a variety of settings which include clinics, hospitals, colleges, school boards, counselling and psychotherapy centres, municipal EAP's, business and industry. About 60% are in private practice. Current membership is approximately 1900. http://www.oaccpp.ca/home.html
Safeguards Training for Children and Adult Services
Safeguards is a unique training program that was designed to meet the highly specialized training needs of staff serving vulnerable children, youth, adults and families in Ontario. To remain responsive to changing training needs and evidence-based practice training, Safeguards develops customized and in-service training and a new provincial training program each year. http://www.safeguards-training.net/Default.aspx
Solutions on Site
Solutions On Site delivers targeted training opportunities designed to complement and enhance the skill sets of social workers, therapists, psychologists, mental health care providers, child & youth workers, chaplains, front line providers and other professionals in Health, Social and Human Services. http://www.SOSWorkshops.ca
Tape Educational Services
TAPE Educational Services is a provider of Continuing Education programs and professional consulting services in affiliation with the Division of Continuing Education at the University of St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto. They provide a wide range of high-quality and accessible training programs and evaluation services for those working in the human services, education, family law, and health care fields. Participants must complete six modules to receive a certificate in the Children's Mental Health (CMH) Certificate Program. http://www.tapestudies.com/
The Hincks-Dellcrest Centre Gail Appel Institute
The institute was established in 1986 to respond to the challenge of improved mental health care for children, by providing advanced training, research and community consultation in the area of children's mental health. This link will direct you to their program of workshops, conferences and certificate courses. http://www.peopleware.net/index.cfm?siteCode=2323&
The Intergenerational Trauma Treatment Model
Get on board with the world's most revolutionary-complex trauma treatment model for children AND their caregivers: (1) At-your-location training for organizations (30 to 60 professionals); (2) training for individual practitioners; (3) The ITTM training certification program. http://www.theittm.com/
The Training Institute of Geneva Centre for Autism
This Institute was created in 1991 to address the need for services that are beyond the Geneva Centre's funded services. Workshops and consultations are provided on a fee-for-service basis to educators, other professionals, families and anyone with an interest in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Link to calendar of training events for Winter/Spring/Summer 2009. http://www.autism.net/content/view/281/90/
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