SHN Child and Adolescent Outpatient Mental Health
Specialty: ADHD Services
Location: 2877 Ellesmere Rd, Scarborough ON, M1E 4C1
Estimated wait time: Not published
Phone: 416-281-7301
Fax: 416-281-7465
Languages: English
Appointment type: In person
Who they see: ADHD Assessment Clinic: children and youth 4-18 years of age residing in Ajax, Pickering, or Scarborough M1 postal codes who are experiencing significant symptoms of ADHD in multiple environments, e.g. home and school. Other programs in the same listing have their own ages and catchments: Shoniker Clinic 4-18 (same catchment, severe mental illness); LINK 18-24; FITT 14-35 (Scarborough M1 only); Slaight DBT 14-24 (Scarborough, physician referral required).
Not accepted: ADHD Assessment Clinic is restricted to the Ajax, Pickering and Scarborough M1 postal-code catchment.
Services: ADHD Services, Early Psychosis Intervention, Mental Health Assessment & Referral, Mood Disorder and Anxiety, Pediatric Psychiatry, Psychology
Areas of care: Shoniker Clinic: outpatient psychiatric assessment and time-limited treatment, ages 4-18, severe mental illness; ADHD Assessment Clinic: interdisciplinary ADHD assessment, ages 4-18; LINK: navigation support for youth 18-24 with severe mental illness and psychosocial deficits; FITT: early psychosis intervention, ages 14-35, up to 3 years; Slaight DBT program with Strides Toronto: comprehensive DBT and skills groups, ages 14-24; Shoniker Clinic; ADHD Assessment Clinic; LINK; FITT (First Intervention Treatment Team); Slaight Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT); DBT skills groups; Shoniker outpatient psychiatric assessment and time-limited treatment; ADHD psychiatric/interdisciplinary assessment; LINK navigation ages18–24; FITT early psychosis psychiatric treatment; Slaight DBT
Additional information: SHN has a comprehensive mental health program for children and adolescents. The SHN Child and Adolescent Outpatient Mental Health program includes: Shoniker Clinic - Outpatient psychiatric service offering mental health assessment, time limited treatment and support for children and youth 4-18 years of age residing in Ajax, Pickering, or Scarborough M1 postal codes with a severe experience of mental illness requiring more intensive support than can be provided in the community. ADHD Assessment Clinic - Outpatient psychiatric and interdisciplinary assessment and consultation for children and youth 4-18 years of age residing in Ajax, Pickering, or Scarborough M1 postal codes who are experiencing significant symptoms of ADHD in multiple environments, e.g. home and school. LINK - A time limited mental health program for youth 18 to 24 years old residing in Ajax, Pickering, or Scarborough M1 postal codes that have been impacted by severe mental illness and marked psychosocial deficits requiring navigation assistance to income/housing/educational supports. FITT (First Intervention Treatment Team) - An early psychosis intervention program, for young-people ages 14-35 residing in the Scarborough M1 postal code area. This is an interdisciplinary service providing assessment, case management and psychiatric treatment and therapeutic interventions such as group for a maximum period of three years of treatment. Slaight Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) - A voluntary treatment program featuring a team of clinicians from Strides Toronto and the SHN Child and Adolescent Outpatient Mental Health Clinic that provides evidence-based therapy to Scarborough youth between the ages of 14 and 24 years... Physician referral is required. ADHD PROFILE: explicitly an ADHD ASSESSMENT and consultation clinic (outpatient psychiatric and interdisciplinary), ages 4-18, youth only - no adult ADHD pathway is published. The profile does not name required rating scales or school reports, though it requires symptoms in multiple environments (home and school). The result row showed a 4 months wait for this listing; the opened ADHD Services offering reports both waits Unspecified - discrepancy preserved.
Last verified: 2026-09-23