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Supporting youth mental health: a resource for summer camps and anyone caring for kids

The Kids Come First Health Team has created a super-useful, one-page info sheet to help camps and their counsellors recognize and support children and youth with mental health concerns.

“Supporting Youth Mental Health” provides:

• what to watch for,
• helpful coping strategies,
• ideas about who to turn to for support,
• how to start conversations about mental health and
• ways to connect with care options.

Many camp counsellors are youth, themselves. This handout will provide them a way to support children and...

Appointment of Dr. Mona Jabbour, Interim Chair/Chief, Department of Pediatrics

* Joint Announcement *

Dr. Bernard Jasmin, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa (uOttawa), and Dr. Lindy Samson, Chief of Staff and Chief Medical Officer for CHEO, are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Mona Jabbour as Interim Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the uOttawa Faculty of Medicine and Interim Chief of the Department of Pediatrics at CHEO for a two-year term effective July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2023.

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1Call1Click.ca: Finding the right mental health care for kids and youth just got a lot easier

June 14, 2021—OTTAWA— Today, the Kids Come First Health Team officially launched 1Call1Click.ca, a unique service in Canada that makes it easier for children, youth and families of Eastern Ontario to find the care they need for mental health and addiction.

The 1Call1Click.ca initiative coordinates more than 20 organizations offering mental health and addiction care for children, youth and their families — addressing a need that families and Kids Come First Health Team partners across the region have...

Kids Come First Health Team vaccine update: Patient and Caregiver second doses of COVID vaccination

Did you receive your first COVID-19 vaccine at CHEO? Here is what you can expect for your second dose:

The Kids Come First Health Team will be holding vaccination clinics at CHEO for individuals who received their first dose at CHEO.  These clinics continue to be offered based on the criteria established by Provincial guidelines and the availability of the vaccine.

What do these guidelines mean? 

• To facilitate a safer return to school in September, all youth and adolescents (25 years of age and...

No health worries for children born to mothers who received seasonal flu vaccine during pregnancy

Study reviewing 28,000 children over three-plus years following birth found no increased risk of early childhood health issues following exposure to seasonal flu vaccination during pregnancy.

A population-based study, published today in JAMA, has found flu vaccination during pregnancy does not lead to an increased risk of adverse early childhood health outcomes.

Although pregnant people are not more susceptible to acquiring influenza infection, they are at an increased risk of severe illness and...