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Blood Monitoring for Patients on Clozapine using Point of Care testing (POCT)
Estimated Population of Canada in 2020: = 37.7 Million Schizophrenia affects 1% of Canadian population (~377,000) 1 in 3 Patients (~124,000) are Treatment Resistant (TRS) Major treatment challenges is Clozapine therapy initiation (schizophrenia diagnosis + 2 failed...
Read MoreEnabling collaborative care through information-sharing infrastructure
Our Huron-Perth IICY project is currently working to enroll network member agencies (inter-sectoral) in the adoption and use of Greenspace. Greenspace is an IT platform for addiction and mental health programs, designed to enable outcome evaluations, evidence-based...
Read MoreChild & Youth Teams
In 2009 extensive research was undertaken regarding integrated service delivery systems. ISD Model was then tested at two demonstration sites with very encouraging results including: waitlists for children and youth mental health services were reduced by 89-100% and...
Read MoreThe Virtual Opioid Dependency Program (VODP)
Virtually delivered healthcare (telehealth, telemedicine) can reduce gaps in access to opioid agonist therapy (OAT) as well as wait times to initiate treatment. Barriers such as lack of transportation, in-person initiation requirements, employment demands and limited...
Read MoreNance Horwood Place (NHP) Community Kiosk
With a grant through a local funder, Nance Horwood Place (NHP), successfully launched the Community Kiosk in October 2016. This accessible space offers a variety of much-needed, every-day items for sale at subsidized or no cost, along with access to healthier food...
Read MoreCOVID 19 Surveillance Testing for Patients with Acute Responsive Behaviours
Managing acute responsive behaviours or mental health-related behaviours during a pandemic is a challenge faced by many inpatient units across care settings. Due to behavioural factors that limit these patients’ ability to maintain isolation precautions and physical...
Read MoreFoliewood and Maisons de Fous
After the success of its first Clé 56 series, the Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal wanted to demystify another facet of the institution: life in its residential resources. In collaboration with director Alexandre Hamel, the production company Pixcom...
Read MoreSouthlake Regional Health Centre
Multifamily Group Therapy (MFT) is an intensive outpatient therapy that brings families who are coping with an eating disorder (ED) together to learn from and support each other. At Southlake, we rely primarily on the MFT model as practiced by Pennie Fairbairn and...
Read MoreHead to Toe
Head to Toe is a new practice that helps with early identification and management of patients at elevated risk for suicide in pediatric medical and surgical units. All youth 12 and older admitted to the medical and surgical inpatient units at the Children’s Hospital of...
Read MoreMinimizing Harmful Coercive Practices in Mental Health Using Patient Engagement and Human Rights
Within mental healthcare, coercive practices are those that restrict freedom and force interventions to immediately de-escalate potential crisis. It is rare to find such practices elsewhere, yet they are common in mental healthcare (namely the use of restraints and...
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