Developing Indicators for the Child and Youth Mental Health System in Ontario.
When the Government of Ontario launched a comprehensive mental health and addictions strategy, the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) was tasked with developing a scorecard for ongoing monitoring of the child and youth mental health system. Using existing administrative and survey-based healthcare and education data, researchers at ICES developed a scorecard consisting of 25 indicators that described at-risk populations, child and youth mental healthcare and relevant outcomes. This scorecard is the first in Canada to report on performance indicators for the child and youth mental health system and provides a model for monitoring child and youth mental health using routinely collected administrative data.
Senior research project manager at ICES.
Julie
J
Yang
Senior scientist and program lead for the Mental Health and Addictions Research Program at ICES, director of the Health Outcomes and Performance Evaluation Research Unit at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto.
Paul
P
Kurdyak
Senior scientist and chief science officer at ICES, staff paediatrician in the Department of Paediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, and associate professor at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto.
Astrid
A
Guttmann
D000293:Adolescent; D019985:Benchmarking; D002648:Child; D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D009864:Ontario; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care