Links - Children's Services
Bosco Homes
Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program
Children's Counselling Services
K'a'lemi Dene School
NWT Council for Persons with Disabilities
Southern Placements for Children
Yellowknife Catholic Schools Life Skills for FAE Youth
Yellowknife Education District #1
Yellowknife Foster Family Association
Yellowknife Women's Centre and Centre for Northern Families
Young Women's Christian Association
Bosco Homes
Territorial Treatment Centre (TTC): TTC provides an intensive co-educational treatment program for eight (8) children and adolescents from the Northwest Territories suffering from social, emotional, behavioural and/or other psychological difficulties. The centre also provides emergency placements for children and adolescents to a maximum of twenty-eight (28) days. This is a staffed facility operating on a 24 hour in-service program basis.
5218 - 52nd Street, Yellowknife, NT X1A 1T9
Phone: (867) 920-4626
Fax: (867) 873-6788
email: ttc@boscohomes.ca
web site: www.boscohomes.ca
Contact: Al Bowerman
Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program
The Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program (CPNP) is a federal initiative. The goal is to help improve birth outcomes by improving the nutrition and health of low-income, high risk, pregnant women.
Phone: (867) 920-3237
Fax (867) 873-0608
Contact: Sophia Wadowska
Children's Counselling Services
Counselling services for children and their families who are clients of the Yellowknife Health and Social Services Authority. These services are provided through the family counsellors of YHSSA or a range of private contractors.
Phone (867) 873-7276 or fax (867) 920-7025 for more information.
AFTER HOURS NUMBER: (867) 445-1092
HELP Line Phone Number: 1-800-668-6868 (Website: kidshelp.sympatico.ca/en)
Classroom Assistant
Phone: (867) 920-7260
Fax (867) 669-7762
Contact: Angela James, Principal
NWT Council of Persons with Disabilities
Early Childhood Intervention Program
5014 47th Street, P.O. Box 1387, Yellowknife, NT X1A 2P1
Phone: (867) 873-8230
Phone Toll Free: 1-800-491-8885
Fax: (867) 873-4124
Southern Placements for Children
Foster, community placements and residential treatment services for children with assessed needs beyond those available in Yellowknife or the NWT.
Phone (867) 873-7276 or fax (867) 920-7025 for more information.
Yellowknife Catholic Schools Life, FAS Choice Program
Fetal alcohol student support program which includes unique learning activities, support to enhance skills that will improve their community awareness and life skills opportunities. The target population is twenty (20) children from Weledeh School and thirty (30) from École St. Joseph.
5124 - 49th Street, P.O. Box 1830, Yellowknife, NT X1A 2P4
Phone: (867) 873-3572
Fax: (867) 873-2701
Contact: Liz Baile
Yellowknife Education District #1
Youth Worker
P.O. Box 788, Yellowknife, NT X1A 2N6
Phone: (867) 766-5050
Fax (867) 873-5051
Contact: Metro Haculak , Superintendent
Website: http://www.yk1.nt.ca
Yellowknife Foster Family Association
Support and education for foster families to maximize the quality of care provided to foster children and youth.
P.O. Box 2642, Yellowknife, NT X1A 2P9
Phone: (867) 920-7160
Fax: (867) 766-3401
email: yffa@theedge.ca web site: http://www.theedge.ca/yffa/index.htm
Contact: Amy Jenkins
Yellowknife Women's Centre and Centre for Northern Families
Pre and post natal education in cooperation with YHSSA Public Health.
5610 50th (Franklin) Avenue, Box 2303, Yellowknife, NT X1A 2P7
Phone: (867) 873-9131 (shelter) or 873-2566 (family and trauma programs)
Fax: (867) 873-2576
Contact: Arlene Hache
Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA)
Project Child Recovery for children who have witnessed violence:
Phone: (867) 766-2158
email: childrecovery@ywcanwt.ca
Contact: Dian Morrissey
