Custody Youth Mental Health Clinician

Support youth in open custody through trauma-informed assessment, brief intervention, and counselling. This outreach-focused work serves facilities across the Greater Toronto Area.

As a Mental Health ACCESS Coordinator, you will engage youth and families referred from open detention and custody sites. The collaborative between CTYS and Wood Green Community Services provides brief mental health services within the Youth Justice system. You will coordinate assessments, service plans, referrals, and follow-up while consulting with detention staff and supporting marginalized youth.

• Engage youth through outreach at detention and custody sites
• Conduct strength-based, trauma-informed mental health assessments
• Deliver brief counselling interventions and case coordination
• Provide consultation to open custody and detention staff
• Document services according to policy and accreditation standards

• Three years’ minimum experience in children’s mental health
• Experience with Youth Justice and community outreach models
• Training in brief intervention modalities and CBT
• Knowledge of child development and crisis intervention techniques
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively

Bring youth mental health, brief intervention, and outreach experience to coordinated services across Greater Toronto Area custody sites.