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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

Alberta Children's Hospital

Location Info
Lower Level
Address
28 Oki Drive NW
Calgary, Alberta
T3B 6A8
Telephone
403-955-7289, 403-943-1500 Access Mental Health
Tollfree
1-844-943-1500
Accessibility

Main entrance

Elevator accessible onsite


Elevators

Getting There

Parking map

Hours of Operation
Available
24 hour service
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