Kids Come First Health Team
The Ontario Ministry of Health supports the new Kids Come First Health Team! Kids Come First includes over 60 organizations, family and youth partners, nearly 1,100 physicians, and thousands of individuals including children, youth and families. As one of the member organizations, CHEO will deliver services in ways that matters to children, youth, and families and we will work with our partners to do the same.
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About the Kids Come First Health Team |
The Ontario Ministry of Health supports our new Kids Come First Health Team! Infants, children, and youth are not adults — their health-care needs are totally different. They are still developing, they live with different illnesses, experience mental health and addictions differently. They require a wider range of health-care providers, have parents or guardians who co-manage their care, and attend daycare or school. For these reasons and more, we need to better connect health services for kids, making it easier and faster to access. Kids Come First includes over 60 organizations, family and youth partners, nearly 1,100 physicians, and thousands of individuals including children, youth and families. As one of the member organizations, CHEO will deliver services in ways that matters to children, youth, and families and we will work with our partners to do the same. At the top of the list of things to do, Kids Come First will implement its integrated home and community care plan which includes connecting care and providers in hospital, home, school and community settings. Kids Come First will also implement a regional, bilingual, Coordinated Access and Navigation Service - One Call/One Click - for children and youth with complex mental health and/or addiction needs and the families and physicians that care for them. The new model for health care in Ontario will have everyone connected to an Ontario Health Team (OHT). Coming together as an organization focused only on children and youth, our Kids Come First Health Team will enhance, not replace, other OHT’s by offering them pediatric expertise and working collaboratively with them to provide seamless care for children and youth. To see everything we have planned for children, youth, and their families, read the complete Kids Come First Health Team application. |
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Donation a 'game-changer' for Ottawa child and youth mental health - Ottawa Citizen In the newsKids Come First extends its wrap-around support for at-risk children and youth - CHEO newsroom Kids Come First helps vulnerable families during COVID-19 where they need it most – at home - CHEO newsroom Kids Come First starts immunization clinic for children - CHEO newsroom Kids Come First Health Team sets up Ottawa’s first COVID-19 isolation centre for youth - CHEO newsroom |
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