A youth worker from the John Howard Society is assigned to the Hamilton Wentworth District School Board to provide the following functions in the suspension/expulsion program:
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Provides substance use and mental health services for teenagers, young adults, and their families or caregivers.
Providing support to 16 and 17-year-old youth seeking housing and/or housing maintenance; assistance to search for, view, apply, and retain housing.
Provides a central referral point to all programs, clinics, and services offered by the Developmental Pediatrics and Rehabilitation Program. The community may call to inquire about programs and services.
This program helps children, youth, and their caregivers in the following ways:
Social recreation rehabilitation program held in the evening to compliment individual's psychiatric day program. Operates out of a number of locations throughout Hamilton. Goals of the program are to:
Offering settlement services for newcomer women and gender-diverse folks, providing a comprehensive range of services and support immigrants settling in their new communities.
Child and Adolescent Services is a community-based children’s mental health clinic, providing confidential and free mental health counselling and treatment for children and youth under 18, and their families. Walk-in single session counselling is
A prenatal and infancy home visitation program for young, first time parents provided by public health nurses. Program begins during pregnancy and for the first two years of the children’s lives.
Offers free information and materials necessary to practice safer drug use and safer sex. Provides referrals to other sources within the community regarding social services, drug and alcohol treatment centers, social workers, housing and welfare.