Strengthening the Evidence

The Centre promotes and facilitates the use of credible evidence to inform the decisions, practices and policies of individuals, organizations and systems providing child and youth mental health care.

Success is:

• Service providers have confidence that their practices were effective and valuable.

• Parents and caregivers have the skills and resources to support child and youth mental health and to be informed consumers of services.

• Children and youth receive the highest quality mental health care across all points in the continuum – promotion and prevention, early identification, intervention, recovery, rehabilitation and chronic care.

• Ultimately, reduced suffering for everyone affected by child and youth mental illness.

Achieving these goals requires a systematic approach to understanding what existing research can tell us about child and youth mental health care and to identifying key areas for new research.

• Learn more about the Centre’s approach to evidence and methods in Critically Appraising the Evidence.

• Search for clinical practice guidelines and systematic reviews relating to child and youth in the Centre’s Evidence Syntheses Database.

The Centre seeks user input at different stages in the research process. Let us know if you’d like to contribute.

Evidence-related resources available from other sections of this website:

• Be an Agent of Change offers some ideas on how to promote the use of credible evidence in your organization, network or region and how to foster a culture of program evaluation.