Collaborative mental health care in primary health care across Canada

Among the fundamentals identified 6. Home care reform, in light of the by the CCMHI to support the development Romanow Report recommendations of collaborative mental health care in primary regarding mental health case management health care services, is the existence of policies, and intervention centred in the home, has legislation and funding structures and resources yet to be widely implemented [...] The approach taken was to include a key informant from each province and territory that had one of the following roles: 1. A member of the Federal/Provincial/ Territorial (F/P/T) Group of the Primary Care Transition Fund 2. A member of the F/P/T Mental Health group 3. An Executive Director of a branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association3 1 Canadian Collaborative Mental Health Initiative A Po [...] At the same time, the transfer of The anticipated result is a fully-integrated most mental health services from the Alberta health system with a complete range of acute, Mental Health Board – which had historically continuing and home care services designed administered community mental health clinics, and delivered within each region in response institutional care and mental health care centres t [...] Mental health needs beyond those that can be Health Renewal includes a broadening of the addressed by the individual family mandate of the mental health system and a physician re-orienting of mental health services toward case management pilot for people with a primary health care approach that stresses high-intensity mental health needs.32,33 strategies focused on health promotion, prevention a [...] In March 2004, the Northwest Territories Challenges Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) issued a policy paper entitled, Some of the challenges that had to be “Integrated Service Delivery Model for the NWT addressed in order to facilitate collaborative Health and Social Services System,” developed mental health and primary health care in by the DHSS together with the eight Health and Ne