Resources for Exceptional Children and Youth - Durham Region

Offers a range of services to hundreds of children and youth with special needs who live in Durham Region * services are voluntary and require guardian consent prior to the initiation of any supports.

Family-centered approach emphasizes collaboration with families, school boards, child care centers, and other community agencies. Programs include:

• Coordination Services for Children and Youth facilitates service planning for a child or youth up to 18 years of age, when the complexity of the child's needs are beyond the capacity of the existing system. Works in collaboration with families and community service providers.
• Resource Library - An extensive library of books, articles, periodicals and videos pertaining to special needs and is available to both clients and the community.
• Dual Diagnosis Respite Funding - For children between 8 to 18 years of age with a mental health and developmental disability.
• Transition Activation Worker - Funds to hire a worker to support transition back to community from hospital or residential treatment.
• Enhanced staffing - available to support the inclusion of children with high needs up to 12 years of age, in a licensed child care center or day camp program.
• Talking About Mental Illness (TAMI) - increases students' knowledge about mental illness and decreasing social stigma. Curriculum materials for grades 7 and 8 and grades 11 and 12. To register, call 1-800-341-6323 / 905-668-5881 ext. 6010 or email: whitehursta@ontarioshores.ca