Practice

Goal: Serving the community by contributing to service quality improvement and increased accessibility

• Improving detection and prevention of serious mental health problems among children and adolescents – including a focus on suicide prevention

• Helping organizations/agencies learn, adapt, implement and sustain effective interventions (such as evidence-based practices (EBPs) with high fidelity.

• Facilitating the process of outcome assessment, monitoring and evaluation.
• Assisting practitioners to define and standardize new interventions, so that they can be subject to systematic evaluation and dissemination.
• Promoting a recovery-oriented service system, embodied in various education, training and program development initiatives using guidelines to facilitate a systematic effort to bring recovery into the concrete, every day, community mental health practice.
• Developing digital mental health approaches to address the gap in mental health service provision