Empowering youth, families, and communities
We provide treatment to youth dealing with complex mental health and behavioural challenges in a welcoming, supportive, and safe environment.
Help transform the lives of Ontario’s most vulnerable youth.
Support the most critical 2 to 5% of youth with complex mental health and behavioural needs from across the province of Ontario.
CELEBRATing YOUTH MILESTONES
When youth can access the mental health support that they need and deserve, it can change the course of their lives.
Secure Treatment
Provides treatment for youth with mental health challenges, who have demonstrated they are a danger to themselves or others and require services in a highly secure environment.
Roberts/Smart Academy
Temporary or long-term academic opportunities for students who find it difficult to function in the traditional school setting.
CORATH
Community program for youth, aged 12 to 24, who have been or are at risk of being trafficked, notably through sexual exploitation.
Open Live-in Treatment
Located in urban homes in Ottawa, treatment programs provide a therapeutic milieu for youth whose mental health concerns require support on a 24-hour basis.
Day Treatment
Short and longer term educational treatment programs provide students with mental health supports and structured learning environment.
Support for families
Support and learning opportunities for parents or guardians of youth experiencing mental health and behavioural difficulties.
Community Reintegration
Support for youth transitioning back into their home and community.
School-based Mental Health
Services for youth in a school setting and during the summer months where needed.
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Treatment for youth dealing with complex mental health and behavioural challenges in a welcoming, supportive, and safe environment.
25th Anniversary of l’Annexe
On December 2, a celebration was held in honour of l’Annexe’s 25th anniversary. The French language Day Treatment program, located in Plantagenet, Ontario, is a collaboration between the Roberts/Smart Centre and le Conseil Scolaire de District Catholique de l’Est...
CHANGING THE TRAJECTORY
Many of the youth that come to the Roberts/Smart Centre have no home and have had up to 40 or more different placements during their 12 to 17 years of life. They arrive with all of their things in garbage bags. These bags contain torn or dirty clothes, often that...
COMPASSIONATE COMMUNITIES
Youth and Philanthropy Initiative (YPI) Canada is an inclusive, award-winning approach to grant-making that grows compassionate communities by connecting high school students to social issues, local charities, and philanthropy at a pivotal stage in their adolescence....