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Programs & Services


Psychiatric 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
  • ability to connect clients to short-term follow-up supports once they have been discharged from the ED

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

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

Access
Service Providers May Include
psychiatrists, registered nurses (RNs), registered psychiatric nurses (RPNs), social workers
Eligibility

Children and adolescents with mental health concerns that impact abilities in daily functioning.

The following locations ONLY provide Mental Health services to adolescents over the age of 13 years:

  • Foothills Medical Centre
  • Rockyview General Hospital
  • South Health Campus
  • Peter Lougheed Centre
Service Access

Referrals for this service can only be made from the Emergency Department.


Service Locations
Also Known As
Acronym
PES
Previous
Emergency Services - Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Preferred
Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Emergency Services
Other
Child & Adolescent Mental Health Urgent Services - Alberta