Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the essential role of first responders, other public safety personnel (PSP), frontline healthcare
C07 – Building Addictions Capacity in Ontario Using the ECHO Model During COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on individuals who use substances (IWUS). Increased risk of infection and overdose, combined
F03 – Advancing Racial Equity Together: What Partnerships are Community-Based Child and Youth Mental Health Agencies Engaging in?
There has been growing awareness regarding the inequitable access to mental health services and negative encounters that children, youth and families
I04 – Evaluating Virtual Mental Health Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic: How to Conduct a Multi-level, Mixed Methods Evaluation of a System’s Shift to Virtual Care
In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, child and youth mental health agencies shifted to delivering their services through virtual platforms.
H10 – Physician-led Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Groups Rapidly Increase Accessibility to Skills Training in Primary Care and are Successfully Delivered through Telehealth
Family physicians were trained by psychiatrists to deliver manualized 8-week Cognitive Behaviour Therapy-based skills groups, addressing the unmet
A07 – ADHD: In the University Student Population – Assessment, Diagnosis, Collaborative Treatment and the Impact of Digitalization
Undoubtedly, the global Covid- 19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the mental health of our transitional youth and young adult population
I07 – Integrated Youth Health Services: Global Lessons to Optimize Health Equity, Experiences, and Outcomes for Diverse Young People and Families
For the past decade, Canada, Ireland, and Australia have been working to address the urgent mental health needs of young people and their families.
J07 – Foundry Works: Towards the Integration of Supported Employment as a Core Service Offered to Young People Accessing Integrated Youth Health Services in British Columbia
Goal: This presentation will describe a four year project to design, test, and implement a novel supported employment intervention for young people
M07 – SCOPE (Seamless Care Optimizing the Patient Experience) Mental Health Program: Evaluation Protocol and Rapid Adaptation in the era of Covid-19.
SCOPE (Seamless Care Optimizing the Patient Experience) is a virtual, multidisciplinary, hub-based program that supports solo, community-based primary
D05 – Reaching Further: Collaborative Care in Sioux Lookout Canada. A Description of a Psychiatric Consultation Model to Remote Fly in Communities in Northern Ontario.
As psychiatrists working in Northern Ontario, it has been required to be involved in developing care models to respond to the needs of communities in
H04 – Geo-View – Innovating Virtual Care to Make Visible Dependency Ratios, Diversity inclusion and Social Determinants of Health
In Canada and USA, the pandemic led to the rapid launch and support for virtual care. The pandemic also made visible how the lack of recognition of
ELO 1A – PCBH Boot Camp Day 1
F02 – COVID-19 Pandemic: A Multisystemic Approach to Address Family and Healthcare Provider Challenges
The COVID-19 pandemic has proven to have pervasive impacts on all aspects of family life. Some of these impacts are drastically increasing as reports
A10 – New and Aspiring Behavioral Health Consultants: Ask Us Anything!
This session is intended for beginning behavioral health providers working in a primary care medical setting (although we would be thrilled to have
I01 – Health Inequities Awareness to Action: Understanding the Inequities and Learning what to Do About It
The mutual existence of COVID-19 and racism has come to be best understood as a syndemic, given their synergistic interaction contributing to an
I08 – COVID Stress Group: The Culturally Relevant Development and Implementation of Mental Health Services via Telehealth in Response to Increased Needs and Limited Accessibility during a Global Pandemic
Racial and ethnic minority groups experience higher prevalence rates of mental health disorders, with greater disparities in social determinants of
F06 – Data and Outcomes from a Community-based, Multidisciplinary Effort to Coordinate the Opioid Response in Rural Alabama: Year 1 of the GROW Project
Background: This project aimed to reduce opioid-related morbidity and mortality in northwest Alabama by improving opioid prevention, treatment, and
F01 – Do No Harm? Addressing Systemic Racism in Healthcare Practices
Systemic and institutionalized racism has historically shaped U.S. healthcare policy and the U.S. healthcare system. Racism, in conjunction with its