Information on treatments, services and staff at the Nova Scotia Youth Facility.
By IWK Community Mental Health & Addictions Clinics. It is common for children and teens to experience mental health problems. When it comes to your care, you have choices; and together, we want to do our best to help you set and meet your goals. So, it’s important that we work well together.
Description of Child and Adolescent Mental Health program's anxiety treatment groups; recommended books.
Guidelines on safety, privacy/respect, therapeutic programming, meals, visiting, and roles of the specialists working on the unit.
Youth at AIS participate in individual, group, and family therapy.
"Code Status" are the words used by hospital staff to describe the procedures that can be performed on a patient if the heart stops or the lungs fail. This pamphlet explains all three code statuses: full code, no code/do not resuscitate, and comfort care/allow natural death. This pamphlet is for use by patients at the QEII, adapted from a pamphlet created by Hants Community Hospital.
A Transition Support Worker (TSW) will be working with you during your child's stay at Children's Intensive Services (CIS). Their job is to help link our program to your home.