SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health
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About This Cause
SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health (CCMH), formerly The Hincks-Dellcrest Treatment Centre builds on the collective history of two extraordinary children’s mental health centres – the C.M. Hincks Treatment Centre, whose origins date back to the early 1950’s and the Dellcrest Children’s Centre, which opened in 1960. In 1998, the two centres amalgamated to form The Hincks-Dellcrest Centre (HDC), a leading edge, non-profit children’s mental health centre offering a comprehensive range of innovative mental health services for infants, children, youth and their families. In February 2017, HDC announced the beginning of another new chapter in its 65-year history -- its integration with The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids). This integration will enable a more efficient, effective and coordinated approach to mental health services for children and youth, one that bridges care in hospital and in the community. A Shared Vision CCMH and SickKids share a vision to create a truly comprehensive academic child and youth mental health program offering a continuum of integrated, inter-disciplinary and evidence-based mental health treatment and support for children, youth and families. Operating under a shared governance and leadership structure, the two organizations aim to help streamline access to the children’s mental health system, providing children and families in need of mental health care with a clear point of entry into care, defined care pathways, and seamless transitions within and between hospital and community-based services. The newly integrated mental health service will focus on improving quality of care and outcomes for children and youth with complex mental health needs. Over the next 18 to 24 months the two organizations will work together to more fully define what the new coordinated children’s mental health program will look like and to determine all of the mental health services it will comprise. While there will be no immediate changes in the services offered by either organization, over time services will evolve.