• Our History

  • Founded

    1863

    Lynwood Charlton Centre was originally founded in 1863 as orphanages, operating the Boy’s Home and the Girl’s Home in the downtown core of Hamilton.

  • Incorporated

    1955

    By 1955, operations were moved to the current main campus site on Upper Paradise Road, and was incorporated as Lynwood Hall Children’s Centre, and chartered as a children’s mental health Centre.  At the new site, it operated a 27-bed intensive out of home program for children between the ages of 6 and 13.

  • Expansion

    1960 - Early 2000’s

    During the subsequent decades, the Centre – now named Lynwood Child and Family Centre – acquired and operated a variety of programs. It expanded its service capacity to provide intensive out of home and at home programs, including community and school-based services, to a wider range of clients, including adolescents and children with a dual diagnosis.

  • Merger

    2011

    In 2011, the Centre merged with Charlton Child and Family Centre to further expand its service range and became known as Lynwood Charlton Centre.

  • Designation

    2014

    Lynwood Charlton Centre is designated as the Lead Agency for child and youth mental health in Hamilton, Ontario by the Ministry of Child and Youth Services (MCYS). As a publicly funded charitable organization in the City of Hamilton, Lynwood Charlton Centre is accredited by the Canadian Centre for Accreditation and licensed by the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services (MCCSS).

An old sepia-toned photo of a large, historic brick building with pointed rooftops and tall windows, with children playing outside on the yard in front.
Old-fashioned classroom or music room with a row of desks, a piano, and large windows letting in sunlight.
A sepia-toned photo of a large room filled with multiple hospital beds arranged in rows, with a window in the background and hanging light bulbs overhead.
Black and white photo of children and women playing and socializing outdoors near a large, multi-story brick building with ivy climbing its walls. The scene appears to be from an earlier time period.

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