Government of Yukon

Health and Social Services

Alcohol and Drug Services
Prevention, detoxification, outpatient counselling, inpatient services, youth services and outreach.

Birth Certificate
How to order a Yukon birth certificate.

Child Care Services
Listing of all Yukon Child Care Centres, download the Day Home checklist for health concerns and find child care professional designation guidelines.

Child Care Subsidy Program
Helps families who need child care and may not be able to afford the cost.

Children's Dental Health Program
A school-based program that provides diagnostic, preventative and restorative dental services to students.

Children's Drug and Optical Program
Assists low income families with the cost of prescription drugs and eye care for children under the age of 19.

Choosing Child Care
Advice, tips and checklists to help you choose childcare.

Chronic Disease Program
Provides benefits for Yukon residents who have a chronic disease or a serious functional disability.

Communicable Disease Control
Monitors and controls all infectious diseases. Confidential testing for all sexually transmitted diseases. STD testing and treatment, emergency and non-emergency birth control, needle stick injuries, food poisoning, and more...

Community Health Centres
Listings and phone numbers for Community Health Centres in Yukon.

Continuing Care
Home care, community day program, residential care programs and respite care services.

Correcting a record
For corrections or amendments to a Birth/Marriage/Death Record.

Disabilities
Listing of links related to disabilities and disability services.

Environmental Health
Engages in consultation and provides information, advice inspections and enforcement services on water quality, sewage and solid waste disposal, food quality, institutional hygiene, special events, recreational facilities and more.

Finding a doctor
A list of all licenced physicians in Yukon. Contact the Yukon Medical Council for the most up to date information.

Foster Care
A foster family acts as the temporary substitute family, where the child’s family is not available or where it is unable to assume responsibility for the child.

Health Card
Provides coverage for medically required hospital and medical services, and certain dental-surgical procedures.

Health Profession Education Bursary
Support Yukon students in attaining health profession education. Download the application online.

Health Promotion
Find out more about health Promotion campaigns. Includes public awareness campaigns, school and community workshops, supporting development of environments, which promote health, and conducting quality reviews of health programming.

Healthy Families
A voluntary service offering intensive home-based support to overburdened families, prenatally and/or at birth through school age.

Hearing Services
A complete range of audiology and hearing aid services to Yukon residents of all ages.

Insured Health Benefits
Find out what is considered an insured service and what is not.

Marriage Licence
How to get married in Yukon: applying for a marriage licence and certificate.

Medical Health Officer
Responsible for communicable disease control, environmental health, emergency preparedness and response and more.

Medical Travel
Helps eligible people with the cost of medically necessary transportation.

Mental Health
A community mental health clinic offers assessment, individual and group therapy, supportive counselling and referral services for a wide range of emotional and behavioural problems and mental illnesses.

Name change
How to legally change your name.

Nursing Bursary Program
Supports people who live or have lived in the Yukon and are attending nursing school. Download the application form online.

Opening a Family Day Home
If you are caring for children in your home, you may want to be licensed as a family day home.

Organ Donation Program
What you need to know about organ and tissue donation. Help give the gift of life.

Pharmacare & Extended Health Care Benefits (for seniors)
Helps registered senior citizens with the cost of prescription drugs, dental care, eye care and medical-surgical supplies and equipment.

Placement and Support Services (for children)
Includes adoption, foster care, services for children in care, child abuse treatment and child care services.

Reporting Child Abuse
Call 867-667-3002 to report concerns. All Yukoners have a responsibility to ensure the protection of children from abuse.

Seniors Income Supplement
An income supplement of up to $100 monthly to low income seniors 65 years and over who are also receiving the federal old age security (OAS) and guaranteed income supplement (GIS).

Seniors and Elder Abuse
Help is available for seniors/elders experiencing abuse or neglect.

Travel Clinics
The Travel Clinics at the Whitehorse Health Centre are recommended for all travellers.

Vital Statistics
Register and order certificates for life events, like a birth, death or marriage.

Youth Criminal Justice Act
Applies to people aged 12-17 inclusive at the time they are alleged to have committed an offence.

Youth Criminal Justice Act (for parents)
Your support will be critical if your child is faced with going through the criminal justice system and maneuvering through the YCJA.