Services Across Alberta

CASA Mental Health is expanding its circle of care around the province to provide much needed mental health service to as many families as possible – where they need it, when they need it. This is part of our vision of a community where all children, youth and their families are provided with timely mental health care and empowered to thrive.

Our five-year roadmap set forth a path to expand our services to reach more children, youth and families, closer to where they already are. These services are needed more than ever before. Once these expanded services are operational, approximately 2,000 more children, youth and families will receive services per year, in addition to more than 8,900 already served. As part of the expansion:

CASA Mental Health will open four new facilities across Alberta by 2029 that will serve youth with both day and live-in programming.

• CASA House is a live-in program for teens who need support with significant mental health and/or addiction challenges. Teens stay at CASA House for an average of four months.
• Collocating CASA House and the day treatment programs in the new facilities allows for a seamless continuum of care, where patients can transition to and from the two programs without disruptions.
• In Edmonton, the two programs will first be aligned but operate out of their current, separate sites with smooth step-up/step-down processes for kids and families, and shared waitlists.
• Facilities in Calgary and Fort McMurray will open in spring of 2027. The Edmonton and Medicine Hat facilities will likely open in 2029.
• CASA will serve 324 more severely complex youth per year through these facilities.
• The Government of Alberta has committed $75M towards these facilities; CASA will work with donors and communities to fund the remaining.

By 2026, up to 60 CASA Classrooms will be operational in schools across the province.

• CASA Classrooms provide individualized mental health treatment for students in grades four to 12. These students have persistent mental health symptoms impacting their home, peer and school life.
• Seventeen classrooms are currently operational across the province.
• Overall, up to 1,500 more children and youth from 139 communities will receive treatment through CASA Classrooms per year.

CASA Mental Health will launch its Trauma program in Calgary in 2024-25.

• CASA’s Trauma program provides intensive, trauma- and attachment- focused mental health services for children and teens aged five to 17 who have experienced complex developmental trauma.
• The Calgary Trauma program will be developed to serve the specific needs of Calgary.
• Once the new CASA facility opens, the Trauma program will re-locate to the new CASA site in 2027.
• When the program is fully operational, it will serve around 300 kids per year in Calgary.