Durham Family Court Clinic

Name

Durham Family Court Clinic

Legal name

Northstar

Website

https://dfcc.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1980

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Youth Justice and Community Mental Health Services

NAICS

Individual and Family Services (6241), Other Individual and Family Services (624190), Child and Youth Services (62411), Other Individual and Family Services (62419)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Health Services (8000), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPAGAEAN

Reentry & Justice-Involved Support Services

Business & Public Services/Nonprofit, NGO & Social Services/Social Services & Community Support (Food, Housing, Family)

SECONDARYHLAFACAM

Forensic & Correctional Behavioral Health Services

Healthcare & Life Sciences/Healthcare Providers & Systems/Behavioral Health & Substance Use Treatment

SECONDARYBPAGAEAC

Family & Parenting Support Services

Business & Public Services/Nonprofit, NGO & Social Services/Social Services & Community Support (Food, Housing, Family)

SECONDARYHLAFACAI

Community Mental Health Centers (CMHCs) & Public Behavioral Health Providers

Healthcare & Life Sciences/Healthcare Providers & Systems/Behavioral Health & Substance Use Treatment

Keywords

• Youth justice intervention
• Community mental health
• Violence prevention programs
• Clinical counseling services
• Alternative education support

Headquarters

HQ city

Whitby

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others

Revenue model

1. Government Funded Services: Organization receives funding from government ministries (Ministry of Children, Ministry of Health) and regional partners to deliver community-based intervention programs and mental health services.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Durham Family Court Clinic (operating as Northstar) delivers community-based intervention, supervision, clinical counseling, mental health, education reconnection, and violence prevention programs for justice-involved youth aged 12-25 and their families in Durham Region, Ontario. Services are delivered through structured programs (CST, ISSP, CTEP, VPP, Enhanced Community Outreach, DYGS) in partnership with courts, schools, and community agencies.

Product overview

Northstar offers a unified suite of community-based youth justice intervention programs. The core portfolio includes the Community Support Team (CST) providing clinical counseling, the Intensive Support and Supervision Program (ISSP) as a custody alternative, Care the Treatment Education Program (CTEP) for educational support, Violence Prevention Program (VPP) for workshops, Enhanced Community Outreach for high-risk youth, and Durham Youth Gang Strategy (DYGS) for gang-involved youth. These programs are delivered through individualized support and partnerships with courts, schools, and community agencies.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Community Support Team (CST)

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

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Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and secondary.

• Durham District School BoardcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEducational partner providing support for at-risk students. Partnership enables school-based referrals and the CTEP education program for youth facing challenges in mainstream education.
• Durham Catholic District School BoardcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEducational partner in the Catholic school system providing pathways for youth requiring alternative education support and intervention services.
• Durham RegioncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRegional government partner providing funding and collaborative support for community-based youth services across Durham Region.
• CMHO (Community Health Ontario)secondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerMembership in provincial community health organization providing networking, advocacy, and best practice sharing for mental health services.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Kinark Child and Family Services: Large Ontario multi-service child and youth agency providing mental health, autism, youth justice, and community services across multiple regions — a broader incumbent with overlapping youth-justice and mental-health programming relative to Northstar.
• Family Services Toronto: Long-standing GTA-based nonprofit delivering counselling, youth programs, and community support — comparable to Northstar in clinical-counselling and family-support services for at-risk populations in the same Toronto/GTA geography.
• Elizabeth Fry Society of Ottawa: Canadian nonprofit supporting women and gender-diverse people in conflict with the law, including youth-focused reentry and diversion programs — a broader justice-involved support peer with similar advocacy and community-based delivery model to Northstar.

Regional players

• Stride (formerly Calgary Youth Mental Health): Western Canada-based youth mental health and community services provider serving justice-involved and at-risk youth — comparable service portfolio to Northstar but operating primarily in Alberta rather than Ontario.

Direct peers

• Skylark Children, Youth & Families: GTA-based children's mental health agency delivering counselling, intensive treatment, and community-based programs for children and youth — directly comparable to Northstar's CST mental-health clinical services and CMHO membership status.
• John Howard Society of Ontario: Provincial affiliate of the John Howard Society providing community-based services to people in conflict with the law, including youth justice programs, restorative justice, and reentry support across Ontario — directly comparable to Northstar's ISSP, CST, and DYGS offerings for justice-involved youth.
• Youturn Youth Support Services: Ontario-based nonprofit delivering intensive support, counselling, and justice-system navigation programs for at-risk youth — overlapping with Northstar's CST, ISSP, and Enhanced Community Outreach models and serving similar government and school-board funders.
• Peel Children's Centre: CMHO-member children's mental health centre serving Peel Region with counselling, intensive treatment, and youth justice–related services — directly comparable to Northstar's CST, CTEP, and gang-prevention programs in an adjacent GTA region.
• Cedar Centre (Ottawa): Regional Ontario nonprofit offering counselling and specialized services for children, youth, and families affected by abuse, with concurrent youth-justice and trauma programs — closely comparable to Northstar's trauma-informed youth intervention model.

Others

• Children's Mental Health Ontario (CMHO): Provincial association of which Northstar is a member; CMHO does not deliver services itself but represents and advocates for member agencies delivering child and youth mental health services across Ontario, making it an ecosystem peer.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses2 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/durham-family-court-clinic
• Instagraminstagram.com/northstarcommunity

Compliance1 record

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