Mental Health

Mental wellness is as important to overall well-being as physical health, social and emotional connectedness, and intellectual accomplishment. If you suspect your child may have a mental health problem, there are a number of resources in place to help. To access the Youth Emergency Crisis Stabilization System (YECSS), please call 949-4777 in Winnipeg or toll-free 1-888-383-2776.

General Information

• Mental Health General Information
• Stress and Mental Health in the Newcomer Child
• Responding to stressful events: Helping children cope: Children can be negatively affected by stressful events, even if they only hear about them on television, or see the impact that these events have on the adults they care about. Click on the link to learn how you can help your children cope with stressful events.
• Anxiety in Students - Feeling worried, fearful or nervous is a normal human reaction but if these feelings are there all the time or interfere with daily life, it may be a sign of an anxiety disorder.
• Brandon RHA Child & Adolescent Treatment Centre - The CATC provides Mental Health services to children, adolescents and their families, including: mental health assessments & treatment; crisis stabilization; individualized treatment plans; individual, group and family therapy; and mental health education/promotion.
• Eating Disorders
• Eating Disorders / Disordered Eating
• Manitoba Adolescent Treatment Centre - MATC provides a range of mental health services to children and adolescents who experience psychiatric and/or emotional disorders.
• Mood Disorders - Learn more about depression and bipolar disorder.
• Psychosis - Psychosis is a condition that affects the mind - where there has been some loss of contact with reality.
• Regional Mental Health & Addiction Crisis Lines
• Suicide Prevention - Find out the signs that tell you someone may be at risk for suicide and what you can do to prevent it.
• Kids Help Phone - Suicide
• ManitobaParentZone.ca on Managing Holiday Stress: Keeping the season festive & fun
• Managing holiday stress
• Holiday Stress- Learn ways to cope this season
• Why do I feel depressed at Christmas?
• Anxiety Canada: Stress Busters
• ManitobaParentZone.ca on New Year's Resolutions