About ErinoakKids – An Overview

ErinoakKids Centre for Treatment and Development is Ontario’s largest Children's Treatment Centre (CTC) – serving approximately 9,000 children and their families each year.

Our clients have a wide range of physical and/or developmental disabilities, communication disorders, autism, and some of the children we care for are blind and/or deaf. Serving Halton, Peel, Dufferin – and for some of our programs – Waterloo and Wellington – ErinoakKids has more than 600 staff and 8 sites from which we provide a comprehensive array of medical, therapy, Intensive Behavioural Intervention (IBI) and support services that help children and their families.

Our main services include: Child and Youth Rehabilitation, Autism Intervention Services, Preschool Speech and Language Services, Connections for Students, Infant Hearing Services (including hearing screening) and Blind-Low Vision Services. Our goal is to help each child we serve to build on his/her unique strengths, and to maximize opportunities for independence, health and well-being.  We also help families as they meet the challenges of everyday life. 

ErinoakKids works from a family-centred philosophy, and our focus is on the strengths and resilience of our clients and their families. We have close connections throughout our community, and partner with schools boards, other service providers, and hospitals in the delivery of care, including SickKids and Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital in Toronto. 

The Ontario government funds our core programs through its Ministry of Children and Youth Services (MCYS).  Additional programs and services at ErinoakKids, beyond those funded by government, are made possible through the generosity of private and corporate donors, as well as the time and expertise of volunteers.