Important!

The Youth Centre provides free services to youth, ages 13 - 29 in Ajax and Pickering. Our phone number is blocked, so if we call your house the name of the Centre or our phone number will not be displayed. The Youth Centre does not use caller ID.

General

The Youth Centre is a non-profit charitable community health centre for youth and young adults living in Ajax and Pickering. We are funded by the Central East Local Health Integration Network, and provide a range of free and confidential medical,counselling, dietitian, young parent support and outreach services, as well as health and wellness programs. We are one of over 72 community health centers (CHC) across the Province, all of which have interdisciplinary teams of service providers including physicians, nurse practitioners, social workers/therapists, health promoters and community workers. The Youth Centre is proud to have been accredited by Community Organizational Health Inc. Our centre is wheelchair and stroller accessible, as are most of our outreach locations.

For more information about CHC's, please check out our link to the Association of Ontario Health Centres at: www.aohc.org.

The Youth Centre is proud to be accredited through the "Building Healthier Organizations" program which is a third-party review tailored to community-based organizations based on accepted organizational practices that promote ongoing quality improvement and responsive, effective community services.

For more information about "Building Healthier Organizations", go to: www.cohi-soc.ca