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RFECY Child Care Centre
The R.F.E.C.Y. Child Care Centre provides quality licensed child care for children 2.5 to 6 years of age whose needs cannot be met by community resources due to their special needs.  The Child Care centre will provide programming that meets the individual developmental and medical needs of each child by collaborating with the child’s family, medical professionals and community agencies.  R.F.E.C.Y. Child Care Centre is   committed to providing individualized, flexible care for all children that are enrolled in the program.  The small numbers of children attending the centre allow us to provide personalized   programming and care that is tailored to the individual developmental and medical needs of your child. 

Co-ordination Services for Children and Youth - Durham Region
CSCY facilitates service planning for a child or youth up to 18 years of age, when the complexity of the child's needs are beyond the capacity of the existing service system. CSCY works in collaboration with families and community service providers to respond to those needs.
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Children's Mental Health Funding
Funding available to provide the following supports:

• Activation Workers to assist a child/youth with serious mental illness after being discharged from a hospital setting.
• Professional Development for staff working in the children’s mental health sector with a special emphasis on front line workers.
• Dual Diagnosis children receive respite support. This service may be community based or a temporary out of home placement.
• TAMI (Talk About Mental Health) is an outreach program to students in local schools. Workshops are offered throughout Durham by volunteer youth that are prepared to share their own experience.

Consultation
The Consultation Program provides families and licensed child care providers with ideas to help their children with special needs develop new skills. Families can also receive assistance with identifying and linking with other services that can help their child. This service is available for children ages 2 – 12 years of age.

Community Residential Placement
Supports parents that choose to maintain parental rights but cannot meet their child’s needs in the family home. Provides placement search, case management and monitoring services to families with children with complex care needs ages 0 - 18 years of age. Families play an important role in planning and implementing appropriate supports for their children. To access the program, families must go through a community process to determine eligibility and funding must be available.

Enhanced Staffing
This program provides additional staffing in licensed child care centres to facilitate the inclusion of children with high needs. Staff may be hired directly by the centre or by RFEC to ensure the safety and well being of children with special needs ages 0 - 12 years. Click here to obtain an application for Enhanced Staffing services.

Family Networking
RFECY hosts several family events throughout the year, the annual family day held in September, the Children’s Christmas party in December, and Support groups are held on an ongoing-basis.

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Committee The FASD Durham Committee is committed to improving Durham Region's response to this disability by focusing on three priority areas: Identification and Assessment, Community Capacity, and Education. This project is funded by The Ontario Trillium Foundation.
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Resource Library
RFECY houses an extensive library of books and videos available to both clients and the community at large.