General Description and Overview

This program provides a diverse range of services for children, youth and their families. Multidisciplinary, multi-skilled teams provide care to more than a thousand clients and families a year at the Chedoke Hospital and at McMaster University Medical Centre. Services are organized as an integrated system with a specific focus on children and youth with serious and complex mental disorders. Services range from highly accessible educational services for parents in the community to a 22 bed inpatient service. The program endorses the use of evidence based practice and uses least restrictive clinically appropriate interventions. As a clinical program at McMaster Children’s Hospital the program has strong links with services within the paediatric academic health centre including, developmental paediatrics and autism and eating disorders. As a provider of tertiary level services across the region, the program works in collaboration with multiple stakeholders and partners providing a range of consultative, assessment and treatment services. Community Education Services can be accessed directly but all other services require physician support. The program works in collaboration with CONTACT, the single point of entry for MCYS funded children’s mental health services in Hamilton to ensure access.

Specialty Services or Clinics

• Community Education Service
• Outpatient Services
• Urgent Access Clinic
• Inpatient and Day Hospital Service
• Paediatric Consultation Service
• Outreach Service

Active Faculty

Dr. Olabode Akintan

Dr. Khrista Boylan

Dr. Michael Boyle

Dr. Jennifer Couturier

Dr. Charles Cunningham

Dr. Karen Francis

Dr. Jeremy Goldberg

Dr. Sheila Harms

Kristy Keeber

Dr. Peter Kondra

Dr. Chetana Kulkarni

Dr. Ellen Lipman

Dr. Angela McHolm

Dr. Paulo Pires

Dr. Noam Soreni

Dr. Peter Szatmari

Dr. Marc Woodbury-Smith

Contact us

For Clinical Inquiries: 905.521.2100 Ext. 74382

For General Inquiries: 905.521.2100 Ext 7734