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The child track of the consortium is organized in collaboration with OISE, the Toronto District School Board (TDSB), The Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB), and several community and university-based mental health settings.

The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) is the largest school board in Canada, with 265,000 students and 580 schools. TDSB students come from a diverse range of ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds. Fifty-three percent have a language other than English, with more than 80 languages represented. About 17% of students receive some form of Special Education support. Given the range of needs at the TDSB, the work of psychological services providers is consistently exciting and challenging, and offers opportunities for continued professional growth.

The Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) is the largest Catholic school board in Canada, with over 92,000 students and 200 schools. TCDSB students come from a diverse range of ethnic and socio- economic backgrounds. The work of Psychological Services staff addresses the continuum of needs from prevention to assessment and intervention, and from mental health promotion and training to program design and evaluation. In addition to School Psychology as their declared area of competence, a number of Psychological Services staff are also licensed to practice in Clinical and/or Counselling Psychology (as per their registration by the College of Psychologists of Ontario).

• Child Development Institute (CDI) is an accredited children’s mental health agency in Toronto. CDI offers evidence-based programs for children (ages 0-12), youth (ages 13-18), and their families across four streams: Early Intervention Services (helping young children with social, emotional or behavioural challenges), Family Violence Services (supporting women and children who have experienced interpersonal violence), LDMH Services, formerly ‘Integra Program’ (services for youth ages 8 to 18 with diagnosed learning disabilities and mental health challenges) and Healthy Child Development (supporting healthy development and learning within Early Learning Centres and an Ontario Early Years Child and Family Centre).
• CDI’s main offices are located to the west of central Toronto.   Psychological services are provided across a number of programs at CDI, including within (1) LDMH Services, which provides family-centred, evidence-informed intervention to children and youth with diagnosed LD ages 8 to 18 years and (2) Early Intervention Services, which provides intervention for children 12 years and under, including within the specialized SNAP® intervention program for children under the age of 12 at risk for being in conflict with the law.

• Broadview Psychology is a family focused and team based private clinic in central Toronto and Stouffville that provides DBT, CBT, ACT and EFT treatment to children, adolescents, parents, families, adults, and couples with diverse challenges. Its team consists of psychologists, social workers, post-docs, graduate students, behaviour therapists, dieticians and admin staff. Broadview Psychology specializes in treating transdiagnostic clients who have problems in regulating their emotions and behaviour through comprehensive and adherent outpatient DBT. Broadview offers separate DBT programs for children, young adolescents, older adolescents, young adults and adults. Broadview Psychology associates work closely together as a team to provide a wide range of services to clients as well as to their family members, including individual, group, parent, family and sibling therapy, as well as phone/text coaching, behavioural coaching, as well as assessments.
• We strive for clinical effectiveness through strong training and supervision programs, and ongoing program evaluation.  We are family and community oriented, and benefit from formal and informal consultation with family members, colleagues, service providers and community agencies. Finally, we are committed to accessibility and inclusion, and offer pro bono or low fee services to underserved populations when possible.

Family Psychology Centre (FPC) is a full-service psychology practice for children, adolescents, young adults, and families. Clinical Psychology Residents have the opportunity to obtain intensive training in emotion focused therapies, family-based treatment, as well as wide range of other treatment approaches, including CBT, DBT, ACT, CFT and play therapy. As a clinical teaching site within the community, our team comprises four Supervising Psychologists, approximately ten psychology trainees at different levels of clinical practice— practicum, residency, and supervised practiced— as well as an interdisciplinary team, including Psychiatry, Social Work, Art Therapy, Psychotherapy, and Occupational Therapy. The clinical services that we offer include psychological consultation, assessment, individual therapy, separated and joint parent-child therapy, parent coaching sessions, and family-based therapy. We are also affiliated with the Emotion Transformation Research Lab, which coordinates the Emotion Focused Family Therapy workshop for parents and caregivers. EFFT provides tools, support, and skills practice for parents and caregivers looking to help their loved ones through emotional and behavioural problems, mental health challenges, and recovery from a range of clinical disorders.

Our clinic is conveniently located in Midtown Toronto and treats diverse populations. All of our services are back in-person but, if clinically appropriate, we do offer a variety of psychological services online through secure video, at the client’s request. We receive referrals for youth of all ages as well as families from many backgrounds. Although we operate as a private practice, part of our mission is to provide accessible mental health care to our community and we do this through our Access FPC program, which offers low cost and pro bono services to hundreds of children and their families each year.