Canvas Health hosts half-day and full-day Adolescent Day Treatment programs at its Oakdale clinic. We also have staff embedded in Elementary Mental Health Classrooms that offer students the opportunity to learn academic and social-emotional skills in a school environment
Day treatment services are developed and provided in a center-based daily therapeutic environment for children ages 11 to 17 whose mental health needs are impacting learning and school attendance. Collaboration between the family and school districts helps to build the appropriate skills for the child’s successful return to their community school. Special educational needs of the child are met in the context of a treatment program that includes medication management, individual, group and family therapy. Children attend this program daily during normal school hours, including summer sessions, and are referred by school districts. Services take place in the middle school of the Canvas Health’s Oakdale mental health clinic.
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TLC Program Manager
Jenny O’Connor, MA, LMFT
joconnor@canvashealth.org, (651) 251-5215
The Therapeutic Education Collective (TEC) program provides mental health child day treatment service to students from ISD 622 ages 12-17 who have struggled significantly with mental health symptoms for more than 6 months. Some examples of these
struggles are symptoms of:
These symptoms may have led to the student needing to be hospitalized.
The classroom will assist students, their families, and school staff in gaining greater understanding of how their mental health symptoms are impacting their ability to engage in academic work, school activities, relationships, and engage in community activities.
Mental health treatment goals will assist the student and their family in learning multiple skills for managing and coping with their mental health symptoms.
The TEC Program provides an environment for the student to experience their symptoms in an academic setting with mental health support so that they can learn new skills to manage their symptoms and put these skills into practice.
Referrals can come from school social workers and/or school counselors, school principals. Students appropriate for this level of mental health care will most often have had engaged in other levels of mental health services, such as individual therapy, medication management, family therapy, etc. To qualify for this service, the student will need to either have a diagnostic assessment indicating day treatment services or a willingness to engage in completing a diagnostic assessment with program mental health staff prior to their admittance into the program.
Download a flier with more information on TEC.
TEC Program Manager
Jenny O’Connor, MA, LMFT
joconnor@isd622.org, (651) 251-5215
In Elementary Mental Health Classrooms (EMHC), Canvas Health partners with school districts to help students learn academic and social-emotional skills in a school environment. Our mental health clinicians work side-by-side with a teacher and education assistants in the classroom.
EMHCs help students avoid hospitalization and out-of-home placement. The goal is for students to gain the necessary skills to return to their home school district.
Referrals can come from school social workers and/or school counselors, or school principals within the schools where Canvas Health has an EMHC presence.
EMHC Program Manager
Jenny O’Connor, MA, LMFT
joconnor@canvashealth.org, (651) 251-5215
Email
June Kong, Program Support
jkong@canvashealth.org
Phone
(651) 251-5090
Fax
(651) 251-5118
Email
June Kong, Program Support
jkong@canvashealth.org
Phone
(651) 251-5090
Fax
(651) 251-5118
Supervisor TAP Harmony
Relationships matter: the currency for change is trust and trust comes through healthy working relationships. People. not programs. change People. Bruce Perry
I have over 20 years working with children, adolescents, and their families.
To make a referral to the TLC program, contact June Kong, Program Support, jkong@canvashealth.org (651) 251-5118.
Life Skills Counselor, Therapeutic Education Collective (TEC)
Practice what you preach. be compassionate, empathetic, and kind.
Professional experience with outpatient residential day treatment as well as Cadi case management in community-based setting.
To make a referral to the TEC program, contact June Kong, Program Support, jkong@canvashealth.org (651) 251-5118.
Life Skills Counselor, Elementary Mental Health Classroom (EMHC)
To refer a student to Elementary Mental Health Services in schools where Canvas Health has a presence, talk to your school social workers, school counselors, or school principal where Canvas Health has a presence.
Therapist, Therapeutic Learning Center (TLC)
To make a referral to the TLC program, contact June Kong, Program Support, jkong@canvashealth.org (651) 251-5118.
Life Skills Counselor, Therapeutic Education Collective (TEC)
If you have the ability to help others, then you should try to help others.
Four years in non-profit social work roles.
To make a referral to the TEC program, contact June Kong, Program Support, jkong@canvashealth.org (651) 251-5118.
Life Skills Counselor, Elementary Mental Health Classroom (EMHC)
Children are brilliant at telling us, in many different ways, what is going on with them. As a mental health care provider to children, it is my job to be able to attune to those messages and to problem-solve what can and should shift in order for them to be able to heal. Attachment, trust, consistency, and emotional safety are core to my professional philosophy and I seek to calibrate my work ever more to those values.
PrairieCare Inpatient Hospital
Abbott Northwestern Hospital: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
To refer a student to Elementary Mental Health Services in schools where Canvas Health has a presence, talk to your school social workers, school counselors, or school principal where Canvas Health has a presence.
Therapist, Therapeutic Learning Center (TLC)
My professional philosophy is meeting the client where they are at and providing hope in a situation where others may feel hopeless. In addition, I am committed to serving others and providing a voice to those that otherwise feel voiceless. I hold the belief that it takes one caring adult to impact the life of a child. I find that separating the individual from the behavior gives the opportunity to address feelings of inferiority through encouragement and the reframing of mistaken beliefs. As a result, clients can increase a sense of belonging, externalize problems, and strive in a socially useful way.
Professional experience in residential and day treatment programs; along with, in-home intensive settings. Knowledge in delivering culturally competent therapy, skills, and behavioral management services to children and adults.
Additional experience in children’s mental health case management, navigating court systems, placements, and initiating services with the client’s best interest in mind.
To make a referral to the TLC program, contact June Kong, Program Support, jkong@canvashealth.org (651) 251-5118.
Therapist, Elementary Mental Health Classroom (EMHC)
Learning fosters healing. My role as a Classroom-Based Therapist is to identify and reduce barriers to children’s learning. Through group therapy, skills groups, and milieu interventions children are able to improve in their peer interactions, academic success, and their overall self-image creating meaningful change leading to success across all areas of their lives
I have worked with children in various roles for more than ten years. These roles include Professional Care Assistant, Summer Camp Counselor, Special Education Assistant, and Therapist in a Day Treatment setting.
To refer a student to Elementary Mental Health Services in schools where Canvas Health has a presence, talk to your school social workers, school counselors, or school principal where Canvas Health has a presence.
Practitioner, Elementary Mental Health Classroom (EMHC)
To refer a student to Elementary Mental Health Services in schools where Canvas Health has a presence, talk to your school social workers, school counselors, or school principal where Canvas Health has a presence.
