Our Clinical Director Looks Back at 2025

As I look back on this past year, I am incredibly proud of the compassion and commitment our clinical teams have brought to supporting children, youth, and families across Peel. This has been a year defined by collaboration with our clients, community partners, and one another and together, we’ve seen meaningful change take root.

Our Counselling & Therapy and Intensive Services teams supported young people and families navigate grief, anxiety, trauma, cultural pressures, depression, and suicidal ideation, helping them build resilience and reconnect with hope. Our Youth Counselling Team also launched new DBT Skills Workshops, offering practical strategies youth described as transformative.

Across programs, clinicians expanded their expertise in the ARC Framework, Circle of Security, EMDR, TF-CBT, TAPP-C, and the interRAI Early Years platform. Our Respite Program fully transitioned to our beautiful Caledon campus, adding an additional evening and increasing our ability to support more children while giving caregivers space to rest and reconnect.

Our EarlyON Resource Consultants and Peel Inclusion Resource Services (PIRS) teams demonstrated the power of inclusive care helping infants and young children with extra support needs thrive in childcare and EarlyON settings through close collaboration with families, educators, the Region of Peel, Community Living agencies, and ErinoakKids.

Our Crisis Response Services Team continued to anchor families during their most vulnerable moments, expanding trauma-informed training for new Peel Regional Police constables and presenting to the HEAL Network on supporting families affected by violence. Our Wraparound team also fostered connection events for youth and caregivers, creating opportunities to feel safe, welcomed, and part of a community. Through it all we strengthened system partnerships with schools, hospitals, and police services, and contributed to provincial initiatives like the Ontario Intensive Treatment Pathway and Coordinated Access Working Group.

To our clients, partners, donors, and volunteers – thank you for trusting us in this impactful work. Here’s to another year of connection, learning, and hope.

Karen Anslow
Director, Clinical Services