Lead Agency for Children's Mental Health
A system that makes sense for children and youth
To support the Roadmap to Wellness, Child and Youth Mental Health (CYMH) Lead Agencies provide leadership and manage local planning efforts in Ontario’s 33 geographical service areas to move this system-building work forward for children, youth and families. St. Clair Child & Youth Services is the Lead Agency for the Lambton County service area.
At the provincial level, senior leaders of Ontario’s Lead Agencies, including St. Clair Child & Youth Services, work together in a Lead Agency Consortium to coordinate Lead Agencies’ efforts, advocate on behalf of Ontario’s CYMH service system, and collaborate with other service sectors to implement the Roadmap to Wellness and related system-transformation work.
Locally, we engage youth and families in system-building efforts to ensure that local resources at best suited to the needs of children, youth, and families in Sarnia-Lambton. We also recognize the importance of working collaboratively with our partners in Health, Education, Child Welfare, Adult Mental Health, and other stakeholders to create a system of care that is both responsive and accessible.
The documents and links on this page provide more information about provincial and local efforts to build a high-quality, easily accessible system of mental health and addiction support. You will find here:
Roadmap to Wellness: A Plan to Build Ontario’s Mental Health and Addictions System, which provides the provincial strategy that guides Lead Agencies’ work.
Recent Provincial Priorities Reports of Ontario’s CYMH Lead Agency Consortium. These reports, updated annually, set out Lead Agencies’ system-building priorities at the provincial level.
