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Youth Psychiatry

Program Overview

The Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre (ROMHC) offers intensive and specialized mental health services to youth with early onset major psychiatric disorders and/or complex psychiatric illnesses that are resistant to treatment. 

While the primary focus of the program is on youth from the ages of 16 to 18, there is flexibility in the age range of youth that may be served in the program, depending on their best clinical interests.

Youth in the program receive expert care through an interdisciplinary team approach that includes psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, nurses, child and youth counselors, an occupational therapist, a recreation therapist, an addiction counselor, as well as special education teachers. 

The program offers a full range of mental health services to meet the unique needs of youth in our community through inpatient hospitalization, partial hospitalization, outpatient services, day treatment and rehabilitation services, as well as a regional outreach service.

About Inpatient Hospitalization
The Inpatient Hospitalization Unit provides comprehensive assessment, stabilization and treatment for youth who have a serious psychiatric illness and are unable to function in less supportive environments. 

The Unit has eight beds and offers intensive programming and support to help youth successfully transition back to their families and communities as quickly as possible.

About Partial Hospitalization
The Partial Hospitalization Unit provides day services for youth with serious psychiatric disorders who require intensive treatment in order to function in their community. 

Because this program is less intrusive than inpatient hospitalization, youth suitable for this Unit must be stable enough that they don't require inpatient hospitalization.  However, this unit does have the ability to step-up or step-down interventions as necessary within an individual youth's treatment plan.

About Day Treatment & Rehabilitation Services
The Day Treatment Unit provides comprehensive assessment, clarification of a diagnosis, intensive treatment and psycho-social rehabilitation in a community high school setting in partnership with education for youth with severe and early onset major psychiatric disorders. 

This Unit is supported by both a specialized interdisciplinary mental health team and special education teachers.

About Outpatient Services
Outpatient Services, organized as general and specialized clinics, offers assessment, consultation and treatment services to youth who can function in the community with less intensive clinical support. 

These services are delivered in collaboration with community mental health providers.

About Outreach Services
Outreach Services provide the essential link to consultative and collaborative partnerships for youth suffering from major psychiatric disorders who are living in the counties of Renfrew, Prescott-Russell, Stormont, Dundas or Glengarry.

The interdisciplinary mental health team works in collaboration with the community in which the youth lives to ensure that specialized psychiatric services are available to him or her. 

Ongoing follow-up of youths discharged from the ROMHC inpatient programs or other youth programs is available through the mobile outreach services accessible in each community.