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The interview included standardized measures of child and parental adjustment and family functioning and asked about all contacts with professionals and agencies parents had made during the previous year in an effort to obtain help for their child and services received. [...] Impacts of poor continuity of care The second broad objective of this project, to examine the impact of poor continuity of care, could not be realized. [...] The CMHCs came from all parts of the province and reflected a wide range of agency types and locations including hospital- and community-based agencies, agencies serving small communities to multiple counties, and variation in the types of services/ professionals/ in- and out-patient services; there are 82 CMHCs affiliated with CMHO. [...] One-fifth of the children scored in the clinical range (T ≥ 70 = 98th %ile) for both internalizing and externalizing problems, and half the sample were in the clinical range in terms of child functional impairment. [...] Given the complexity of help-seeking, it is unclear if a centralized intake for child and youth mental health services within a community could deal with the issues of co-ordination of services across sectors.