Community Partners and Programs
There are many community programs and services supporting children’s mental health in our community that can be accessed through Front Door.
Whether you’re a young person up to the age of 18, parent/caregiver or a child under 18, or a service provider we make it easy to find the mental health services that are right for you and/or your client.
Programs Available Through Front Door
The programs listed below are offered by our community partners in Waterloo Region and can be accessed through Front Door.
These services require a referral through Front Door. When you call Front Door, our team will assess what services or programs will best suit your individual needs and get you connected.
To get started with mental health support, call 519-749-2932 or email frontdoor@starlingcs.ca today.
Camino Mental Health and Wellbeing
Click on the Services Page for more details on each program
- Child and Family Workshops
- Circle of Security
- Community Resource Program and Groups (CRP)
- OK2BME
- Polaris
- Pre-Natal and Parenting for Early Childhood
- Quick Response, Children’s Counselling & Trauma Treatment
- Temenos
- Trauma Informed Parenting Workshop
- Trauma Treatment
- Zero2Six Consults
- Zero2Six Intensive
If you have a child from 0-4, you can connect with Camino directly or through Front Door
- Birchlands Step Up Step Down Program
- Crisis Services
- Day Treatment Jr
- Day Treatment Sr
- E-Connect Parent Group
- EDDT
- Intensive Support & Resource Coordination Program (ISRCP)
- Integrated Support Team (IST)
- Partners Program
- Safe Haven Youth Services
- Skills for Safer Living
- Substance Use (Clinician with Specialty in Substance Use)
- Woodlands Live-In Treatment
Child and Parent Resource Institute (CPRI) Ontario (virtual services)
- Referral from Front Door required
While many of the Children’s Mental Health services in Waterloo Region are accessed through Front Door, other community partners in this area also provide excellent programming and are available through their own intake processes. If you are unsure where to find children and youth mental health support in Waterloo Region, Front Door can still support you getting to the right place.
Getting Started With Mental Health Support
Although the programs listed are the ones that primarily accept referrals through Front Door, Front Door also refers to other services: including recreation, peer support and more.
Front Door is here to help.
If you’re a child, youth, or caregiver in Waterloo Region looking for mental health, social, emotional and behavioural support, Front Door is your starting point.
Connect With Front Door Today at 519-749-2932 or email frontdoor@starlingcs.ca
"This program is amazing! Having a worker come in and see what issues we had and help fix them helped more than any parenting group I've ever done. " Parent