The Hincks-Dellcrest Centre is a children’s mental health treatment, research and teaching centre that provides a services to children aged birth to 18 years in Toronto along a continuum of need including prevention and early intervention, outpatient individual and family services, intensive residential treatment, and youth justice. The model of care is rooted in an interdisciplinary approach involving psychiatry, psychology, social work, child and youth workers, and nursing. Children are treated within the context of their family and community environment.
Hincks-Dellcrest has also formed strategic alliances with other children’s mental health centres and services. The Hincks-Dellcrest Centre also has a strong academic mandate through its affiliation with the University of Toronto. In addition it has partnerships with other children’s services, such as children’s aid societies, public health and Toronto hospitals and with education partners. Hincks-Dellcrest has a robust research program that adds to the body of knowledge in children’s mental health and tests innovative programs locally, nationally and internationally. It also has a program evaluation service that develops evidence to support best practices in the delivery of the Centre’s children’s mental health services.