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Programs & Services

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Inpatient Services

This service provides inpatient mental health assessment and treatment for children and their families.

This service offers mental health assessment and treatment for children with serious emotional, behavioral, and / or psychiatric problems that can't be treated in the community, day patient, or outpatient settings. The service also involves the child's family.

Service provides:

  • psychiatric assessment
  • short-term psychiatric stabilization

All admissions are determined in any of the emergency departments in consultation with psychiatry/mental health staff

Contact Details

Foothills Medical Centre

Location Info
Unit 23 and 26
Address
1403 29 Street NW
Calgary, Alberta
T2N 2T9
Telephone
403-944-8298 Unit 23 for Adolescents 13 to 17 years, 403-944-1282 Unit 26, 403-943-1500 Access Mental Health
Tollfree
1-844-943-1500 Access Mental Health
Getting There

Parking available

Foothills Medical Centre parking map

Hours of Operation
Note
Service hours not available.
Access
Service Providers May Include
family counsellors, licensed practical nurses (LPNs), occupational therapists (OTs), psychiatrists, psychologists, recreation therapists, registered nurses (RNs), social workers, teachers, therapy assistants
Eligibility

Child must be between 4 and 17 years old with acute mental health problems.

Adolescents must be between 13 and 17 years old and in Grade7 to Grade 12.

Service Access

Referral through emergency department only.


Service Languages
Interpreter/Translation services
Service Locations