Mental Health and Addictions

Tele-Mental Health Service

Ontario’s Tele-Mental Health Service provides children and youth in rural, remote and underserved communities with access to specialized mental health consultations through videoconferencing. It connects children and youth, who are already receiving mental health services, to a specialist who can help them.

The Tele-Mental Health Service is provided across the province in rural, remote and underserved communities identified as having the greatest need. This helps provide culturally-appropriate services to First Nations, Métis, Inuit, urban Indigenous, and francophone children, youth and their families. It also provides children and youth access to the specialized service they need, as close to home as possible.

The Tele-Mental Health Service coordination agencies coordinate access to the service for community service providers. These agencies are:

• Hands TheFamilyHelpNetwork.ca
• Woodview Mental Health and Autism Services
• Algoma Family Services
• Southwest Ontario Aboriginal Health Access Centre
• Dilico Anishinabek Family Care
• Weechi-it-te-win Family Services
• Strides Toronto (for agencies referring in Toronto/GTA)

For more information about the Tele-Mental Health Service including referrals, contact:

TeleLink Mental Health
Phone: 1-877-507-7301
Email: telepsychiatry.inquiries@sickkids.ca
Fax: 416-813-2189