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Mission Statement
The George Hull Centre is one of Ontario’s leading multidisciplinary, innovative children’s mental health centres.
The purpose of The George Hull Centre is to reduce suffering and to enhance the quality of life of children, youth and families.
The George Hull Centre engages the community, its families and volunteers in a variety of partnerships to provide hope, solutions and positive outcomes.
Philosophy
The George Hull Centre regards each child as an individual, a member of a family and a member of the community.
The George Hull Centre works in partnership with families and children, with other community services and with community groups to improve the mental health of the children and youth. The Centre works to develop an accessible, flexible and responsive continuum of service delivery for the community, and to provide specialized services for the Greater Toronto Area, as mandated.
A commitment to gender equality, cultural sensitivity and accessible economic opportunities provides an organizing framework to the philosophy of the Centre.
The Centre takes into account imbalances of power as they exist in the culture and as they affect the lives of children, and advocates accordingly on behalf of marginalized groups.
Mandate
(1) Prevention and early intervention, in collaboration with other community groups, for families with infants and young children considered to be at risk.
(2) Provision of comprehensive and accessible treatment services for children and youth.
(3) Shared resourcing of services for children in the community through consultation, community development and planning initiatives outside of the Centre with community groups.
(4) Participation and initiation of local planning endeavours in the community with the goal of developing a comprehensive service for children and families which is community wide.
(5) Research, program evaluation and quality assurance to better understand how to meet the mental health needs of children and youth.
(6) Teaching as part of the university system in the fields of psychiatry, psychology, social work, and speech and language pathology; teaching in the field of child and youth work and early childhood education as part of the community college system; maintaining an active training program in family therapy for other practitioners and Centres in the province.
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