CAFCO thanks Sandy Hill

Dear Sandy Hill community,

Over a year ago, the Child, Adolescent, and Family Centre of Ottawa, a multidisciplinary mental health clinic, moved out of your lovely neighbourhood. In the midst of our transition to our new space in Alta Vista, we didn’t take the time to properly express our gratitude to the community where CAFCO grew.

From 2013 to 2024, CAFCO was proud to be located in the beautiful historic white house at the corner of Osgoode Street and Blackburn Avenue. Our clinicians and admin team truly loved being part of this community and serving some of the wonderful families who call Sandy Hill home. We were especially grateful to support both francophone and anglophone families, and our team was always delighted to be greeted by the children at the Bettye Hyde Early Learning Centre as we arrived at work.

We have since moved into a larger space that allows our full team to be under one roof and where we now have dedicated areas for group programming. We continue to provide services with the same commitment, care, and compassion to children, youth, and families, and, more recently, to adults.

Thank you, Sandy Hill, for being our home for more than ten years. Though we’ve moved, we’re still nearby, and we’re here if ever you need a shoulder to lean on.

CAFCO was recently awarded a grant from the Ministry of Francophone Affairs of Ontario to help us build our capacity to serve francophone families. We’re currently finalizing a number of new group programs, some of which are offered in both English and French, on topics such as emotional regulation, supporting anxious children and their families, helping teens strengthen their executive functioning, support for parents with ADHD, as well as an art workshop for teens on the spectrum and a grief group for teens. For more information, please visit our website: cafco-ceafo.ca/.

Farewell, Sandy Hill, and thank you for everything.

Julie Desjardins, Caroline Sullivan, and Catherine Ouimet on behalf of the CAFCO team