Integrated Training in Windsor-Essex

What is the system challenge?

Stakeholders in the Windsor-Essex community identified a lack of clear pathways and equitable access to services for youth with concurrent disorders, including capacity to treat concurrent disorders, and a lack of system understanding among both service providers and service users.

Stakeholders in the Windsor-Essex community identified a lack of clear pathways and equitable access to services for youth with concurrent disorders, including capacity to treat concurrent disorders, and a lack of system understanding among both service providers and service users.

What are we doing about it?

To respond to knowledge and capacity gaps in the Windsor-Essex community, partners hosted a number of cross-sectoral learning, networking, and engagement opportunities in the areas of youth mental health, addictions, and concurrent disorders.

These events enhanced participant:

  • knowledge of area agencies and resources
  • knowledge of health equity concepts
  • cultural competency
  • understanding of family needs
  • understanding of the principles of adult learning
  • understanding of meaningful ways to engage local youth in system level work
?What's this?

Full Implementation

Integrated Training was implemented by the Windsor-Essex Service Collaborative with help from the Provincial System Support Program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

How do we know it works?

> 100

local providers are licensed to use the GAIN SS

> 140

service providers attended the Learning Across Sectors Workshop in November 2015

Who is involved?

The Collaborative involved more than 60 active members from the justice, education, children and adult mental health and addiction sectors, and included a very strong representation from parents.

Next Steps

To further sustain and utilize the enhanced local capacity in the areas of youth mental health, addictions, and concurrent disorders, Collaborative partners helped link local training needs to local trainers through a local training committee. Local trainers were also given the opportunity to attend a training to enhance their understanding of the principles of adult learning.

To further sustain and utilize the enhanced local capacity in the areas of youth mental health, addictions, and concurrent disorders, Collaborative partners helped link local training needs to local trainers through a local training committee.  Local trainers were also given the opportunity to attend a training to enhance their understanding of the principles of adult learning. 

Resources

Learning Across Sectors: Integrated Training in Youth Mental Health, Addictions and Concurrent Disorders (summary)


For more information, please contact

Beth Powell, Regional Implementation Coordinator

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