Advancing the agenda for collaborative mental health care

Canadian Initiative Collaborative canadienne de Mental Health collaboration en Initiative santé mentale Advancing the Agenda for Collaborative Mental Health Care 1 May 2005 CCMHI Partners Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists Canadian Association of Social Workers Canadian Federation of Mental Health Nurses Canadian Mental Health Asso [...] Advancing the Agenda for Collaborative Mental Health Care A paper for the Canadian Collaborative Mental Health Initiative Prepared by: Marie-Anik Gagné, PhD May 2005 Canadian Collaborative Mental Health Initiative O U R. G O A L The Canadian Collaborative Mental Health Initiative (CCMHI) aims to improve the mental health and well-being of Canadians by enhancing the relationships and improving coll [...] Policy Barriers Achieving progress in enhanced collaboration among primary health care and mental health lack of coordination among primary partners, consumers, families, and caregivers health and mental health care reforms, requires an understanding of the barriers that leading to a fragmented health care impact collaborative mental health care. [...] Mental Health Care Framework Identifies four key elements of collaborative The CCMHI commissioned a number of mental health care (accessibility, richness of papers to examine the barriers to collaborative collaboration, collaborative structures, and mental health care in greater detail; developed consumer centredness) and the fundamentals a series of strategic implementation toolkits to that influ [...] Advancing the Agenda for Collaborative Mental Health Care Identifying Better Practices for Collaborative Mental Health Care in Primary Health Care Reviews the barriers that keep people from accessing mental health services in primary Builds on the Annotated Bibliography and health care.