This Frayme Podcast episode was created as part of our Knowledge Mobilization (KMb) Fellowship Program. In this episode, we sat down with Candice Anderson and Samantha Laxton from the Health Standards Organization (HSO), as well as Frayme Knowledge Mobilization Fellow Julia Parrott to discuss their collaboration on the Pathways Toolkit to Help Advance People-Centred Integrated Care. This toolkit is designed to help teams develop context-driven and evidence-based integrated care pathways ...
What can we do today to create leaders for tomorrow? Host Shauna MacEachern explores this question with guests Alisa Simon, Matt Prebeg and Ed Mantler, as they talk through the growing concern for succession planning in our sector. How can we create programming that fosters future leaders? How do we shift definitions of 'lived expert' to dismantle arbitrary rules that limit their opportunity for growth? What can we learn from outside sectors? Explore questions like these and more ...
In part 3 of this three-part episode, host Shauna MacEachern sits down with Dr. Jo Henderson to dive deep into the ways that Integrated Youth Services (IYS) and a learning health system can augment and enhance our overwhelmed sector. As a leader at Youth Wellness Hubs Ontario and IYSNet, Jo provides insight into what’s needed at a systems level to improve outcomes and create more equitable access for youth seeking support for diverse reasons.About Jo HendersonDr. Jo Henderson is Director of t...
In part 2 of this three-part episode, host Shauna MacEachern sits down with Katelyn Greer, a youth mental health advocate and lived expert. Katelyn shares how she’s been able to integrate her lived expertise into mental health research, her experiences with poor vs good engagement practices, and where she’d like to see the sector grow from here. Katelyn brings a wealth of knowledge as a youth who has been in the space for 4 years - and she calls on the need for greater diversity, better outre...
In part 1 of this three-part episode, host Shauna MacEachern sits down with Mark Beckles to discuss the ways that corporate funders can better engage in the mental health initiatives and projects that they fund. Playing a leading role in RBC’s Future Launch program, Mark shares how youth voices influence program development within Future Launch and how his team has shifted from merely funding programs to collaborating and engaging with youth on these projects. About Mark BecklesWith over 25 y...
On this episode of the Frayme podcast, we sit down with Alexia Jaouich from Stepped Care Solutions to discuss the development of their innovative SC2.0 program, and learn about how this model helps communities build strategic services and programs that are tailored to the unique needs of their community. Working with their clients through each phase of the project, SC2.0 offers clients support in ideation, development, implementation and evaluation. We also unpack what fidelity looks like in ...
In this episode, we sit down with Cyndy Moffat Forsyth from the Integrated Youth Services Network to discuss the Integrated Youth Services Network in Wellington County Guelph, and her journey in helping to build this network from the ground up. Listen as we dive into how the idea for these sites first started, the dynamic programming offered that is developed through authentic engagement with local youth, the barriers they faced (and overcame) along the way, and how they’re evaluating t...
In this episode, we sit down with Jill Fairbank from CCSA to discuss her journey leading the Improving Treatment Together Project (ITT). Listen as we explore the disparities in opioid research that sparked the initial idea for the project, the impact of co-designed research on youth outcomes, and how the work of the project has been bridging the gap between what we know and what we do. About the Implementation SeriesThe Implementation Series highlights new and emerging IYS initiatives in Cana...
Impacts of trauma affects individuals, families and entire communities across Canada. For Veterans' Week, we sat down with Dr. Helena Hawryluk and Jerris Popik who run the Warrior Kids Program at Wounded Warriors Canada, to discuss the intergenerational impacts of Operational stress injuries on family systems, how unaddressed trauma shows up in youth, and their unique youth-focused initiative that addresses this complex issue. DR. HELENA HAWRYLUK Helena Hawryluk is a Registered Social Worker ...
Jana Kocourek is the Manager of Engagement and Standards at the Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health (the Centre) in Ottawa, Ontario. She oversees the development and implementation of quality standards for the child and youth mental health sector including the quality standards for youth and family engagement. Jana's team works with community based child and youth mental health agencies in Ontario to imbed youth and family voice within organizations and communities ...