Emergency Services - Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Offers assessment and consultation for children or adolescents with urgent and/or emergent mental health needs.

This service provides:

• assessments for children and teens with mental health concerns
• consultations with families
• recommendations to doctors about admissions and/or community support
• discharge planning and counselling for children and teens in the hospital
• short-term follow-up for clients once they have been discharged

See Eligibility field for information on who is eligible for this service.

Alberta Children's Hospital has a Mental Health Inpatient Unit.