Stepping up the HYPE – Integrating Mental Health Care Services

This webinar will examine the status of youth mental health and health care in Canada and describe the Integrated Stepped Care Model currently being promoted in five provinces. Furthermore, our panellists will present the British Columbia Integrated Youth Services Initiative as an exemplar of the Model and discuss findings related to the youth engagement process. They will also discuss the Healthy Young People Everywhere (HYPE) - International Knowledge Translation Platform as a mechanism to integrate national efforts and to link with partners internationally. PRESENTERS Dr. Ian Manion Dr. Manion is a clinical psychologist and scientist-practitioner who has worked with children, youth and families for over 30 years. He is an adjunct professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa. Currently he is the Director of Youth Mental Health Research at the Institute for Mental Health Research. He serves as the Inaugural Co-Chair of the National Infant, Child and Youth Mental Health Consortium and the Principal Lead for the National School-Based Mental Health and Substance Use Consortium. For the past 12years he served as the founding Executive Director of the Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health. Dr. Manion is actively involved in research on mental health promotion, youth depression and suicide. He has a particular interest in systems research and how services are organized to best meet the mental health needs of youth. He is a committed advocate for child and youth mental health sitting on local, provincial, national and international boards and committees. Dr. Manion is co-founder of Youth Net/ Réseau Ado, a bilingual community-based mental health promotion program with satellites across Canada as well as in Europe. This program strives to understand the mental health issues facing young men and women, and to better address these issues with sensitivity to gender, age, culture, and geography. Dr. Steve Mathias Dr. Steve Mathias is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, with a fellowship in Addiction Psychiatry (U. of Melbourne) and is the Division Head for youth mental health at Providence Health Care, Vancouver, BC. He is the Executive Director of the British Columbia Integrated Youth Services Initiative (BC-IYSI), an initiative to create six integrated youth health and social service centres and develop a provincial integrated e-health strategy. Dr. Mathias is the co-founder and medical manager of the Inner City Youth Program, a nationally-recognized service which provides integrated health and social interventions to a complex, homeless youth population through a series of partnerships with community agencies, health networks and government ministries. The ICY Program opened the Granville Youth Health Centre in March 2015, the prototype for the BC-IYSI expansion. Dr. Mathias has specialized in collaborative care, knowledge exchange and implementation of best practice. He is actively involved in research profiling the service needs of homeless youth. He is the psychiatry lead for the largest inter-disciplinary Addiction Medicine Fellowship training program in North America. He works clinically with homeless youth and on outreach to rural communities. Daniel Presnell Director, Health + Academic Communications Signals Trained as a storyteller, Daniel employs a nuanced understanding of setting, scene, conflict and character to bring the ideas, values and the actions of people and institutions to life. A communicator with 15 years of experience, Daniel comes to Signals from his most recent position as Communications Manager at the University Of British Columbia Faculty Of Medicine. There he used creativity and critical thinking to deliver a broad set of both traditional and digital communications that raise the profile of the Faculty of Medicine in the communities they serve. As a listener, interviewer and public speaker, Daniel believes that creating trust and equity between all participants can facilitate meaningful dialog, and lead us to new ideas and understanding. He can articulate complex ideas clearly, think visually, find creative solutions to challenges, and collaborate with diverse partners to realize our goals. Daniel has an MFA from the University of Massachusetts.