This year, CFHA is proud to co-host our conference with our Canadian sister organization, SharedCare.
The Canadian Collaborative Mental Health Care conference sessions will be presented virtually on October 19th, preceding the virtual CFHA Conference.
About the Canadian Collaborative Mental Health Care Conference
The Canadian Collaborative Mental Health Care Conference aims to advance collaborative and integrated practice of mental health care in Canadian primary and community care settings. Our scope includes intra-and inter-professional collaboration inclusive of collaboration with clients and caregivers. We value multiple forms of knowledge and ‘evidence’ including scientific knowledge, pragmatic knowledge of front line healthcare providers and administrators and experiential knowledge of people using mental health services. Throughout the conference we seek to promote dialogue between these different perspectives.
This year’s conference theme is “Justice, Health Equity and Reducing the Digital Divide”. The conference theme underscores the importance of addressing the socially constructed determinants of health and structural inequities, including systemic racism, in order to achieve health equity. As providers of mental health care, supporting people living with mental illness, we need to establish equity-based approaches rooted in cultural humility in order to collaborate with diverse groups to provide the best possible care, education, and support. Digital care has rapidly accelerated the transmission of knowledge while expanding the scope of practice without significant consideration for the complexities and disparities in access to care. Therein lies the opportunity to develop culturally relevant, responsive strategies to reach disadvantaged populations and address this digital divide, which will enhance integrated and collaborative mental health care and improve health outcomes for all.
The goal of our conference is to increase knowledge about interprofessional collaborative practice in mental health, and in particular…
- Illustrate the value of meaningful engagement of people with lived experience in the design, evaluation and improvement of care services, and in the development of a culture of collaboration
- Exchange knowledge related to collaborative practice in mental health to support replication and successful implementation of innovative and impactful programs ‘evidence-based practice’
- Promote the participatory generation of new knowledge by engaging clinician-innovators, service users and others to evaluate and improve programs in practice (‘practice-based evidence’ and quality improvement)
- Facilitate dialogue between the various stakeholders who have a key role to play in advancing integrated and collaborative mental health care, including clinicians, service users and carers, policymakers and researchers
The goal of our conference is to increase knowledge about interprofessional collaborative practice in mental health, and in particular…
- Illustrate the value of meaningful engagement of people with lived experience in the design, evaluation and improvement of care services, and in the development of a culture of collaboration
- Exchange knowledge related to collaborative practice in mental health to support replication and successful implementation of innovative and impactful programs ‘evidence-based practice’
- Promote the participatory generation of new knowledge by engaging clinician-innovators, service users and others to evaluate and improve programs in practice (‘practice-based evidence’ and quality improvement)
- Facilitate dialogue between the various stakeholders who have a key role to play in advancing integrated and collaborative mental health care, including clinicians, service users and carers, policymakers and researchers
Past SharedCare Conferences
Conference Presentations
The conference presentations will be posted on the Shared Care website after the conference: www.shared-care.ca/presentations.
Please note that presentations will only be posted if the speaker has granted us permission to do so.
The committee extends a special thanks to Tom Nagillah for designing the 2021 conference logo.
