Children & Youth Services

Children and youth services

This service page combines information that helps inform and support health care and wellness choices for children and youth. 

If you are looking for information about caring for your child, see our Children & Youth health topic. If you know the service you need but just need location information, see Children & Youth Locations.

Island Health provides a network of counselling, prevention, residential care and treatment services across Vancouver Island for youth (ages 13-19) and their families.
Supporting children, youth and their families by evaluating and planning treatment for significant emotional, behavioural, psychological and psychiatric symptoms.
The Dental Health program provides information and support for families to prevent dental disease in young children.
Discovery offers free community-based counselling services and access to residential care and treatment for youth ages 13-19.
Hearing Clinic Staff work with individual clients, professionals and agencies to identify children and eligible adults who are hard of hearing or deaf.
Island Health Youth Clinics provide free and confidential health services to individuals 25 years of age and under.
The Prevent Alcohol and Risk Related Trauma in Youth Program is a dynamic, interactive injury prevention program for teenagers.
This program provides speech and language services to infants, toddlers and preschool children.  
Public Health Nursing provides health promotion, disease prevention, intervention and support services to women, children, youth and families living across the Island Health region.
Public Health Dietitians work to promote physical and mental wellbeing across the lifespan through food, nutrition and developing a positive relationship with food.
Child Youth and Family Mental Health provides tertiary services to children, youth and their families throughout Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands.
The Supported Child Development Program contracts with licensed child care centres, individual care providers in Inclusive Assisted Care (IAC) arrangements families for In-Own-Home arrangements.