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The Network aims to:
  • Identify unmet needs experienced by individuals with complex mental health, substance use, and other needs 
  • Foster active participation, connection, and collaboration among diverse stakeholders across sectors, disciplines, regions and perspectives
  • Facilitate knowledge translation and exchange by sharing experience, expertise and insights to co-develop innovative and actionable recommendations. 
  • Promote continuous evaluation, learning and improvement to enhance service planning and the delivery of services and supports
About the Network
  • Our approach:

    The Network is grounded in a person-centered, evidence-based approach and is designed to bring together and mobilize a wide range of perspectives, including people with lived and living experience (and families), clinicians, service providers, decision makers, leaders, researchers and others working to support people with complex mental health and substance use and other issues across the continuum of care in B.C.

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  • Innovation

    In the context of a fragmented, complex system of care, generating innovative solutions to better meet people's needs requires input from diverse perspectives along the continuum of care. Innovation may occur through the simple incremental process of knowledge translation and exchange. This is fundamentally embedded in relationships, and networks can be desgined to accelerate it. The Network connects people with diverse perspectives, expertise and insights- dynamically and over time - to create opportunities to continued connection, dialogue, exchange, synergy and reflection, thereby accelerating the co-creation of innovative, actionable solutions.  

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  • Engaging with a diversity of perspectives

    The Network elevates the perspectives of people with lived and living experience, and continuously engages to ensure its initiatives incorporate their identified needs, with those of relevant funders, mandates and provincial ministries. We co- develop actionable, innovative recommendations with diverse stakeholders, which drives scalability and optimizes impact. 

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  • Network operations team

    The Network operations team, including two lived experience strategic advisors, collectively brings a wealth of relevant expertise and experience to this work. They plan, organize and facilitate all engagements as well as contribute to the analysis, summary and development of a variety of knowledge products to meet the needs of the Network, its partners and collaborators.

    Meet the Network Operations Team

     

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Frequently Asked Questions:

About Provincial Mental Health and Substance Use ECHO

About Provincial Mental Health and Substance Use ECHO  

The Network supports the Provincial Mental Health and Substance Use ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes), which is a virtual learning and mentorship program for service providers working with people with complex mental health, substance use and other needs. Sessions include short presentations, scenario and case-based learning, and discussion opportunities. Please visit the web page for the Provincial Mental Health and Substance Use ECHO for more information or to register for future sessions.

Learn About ECHO

About Dialogue + Action sessions

Dialogue + Action sessions

Dialogue + Action (D+A) sessions are designed to foster knowledge translation and exchange through dynamic collaborations. The in-person sessions connect people across the mental health and substance use continuum of care and are held in each of the geographic health regions across B.C. Participants include people with lived and living experience, service providers, decision makers, leaders, academics, and others. These sessions aim to understand regionally specific issues by promoting a 360-degree perspective for the co-development of innovative solutions for system improvements.

Learn About Dialogue + Action

About Lived Experience Advisors and Partners (LEAP) team

Lived Experience Advisors and Partners (LEAP) team

The Network works in partnership with a 6-member team of lived experience advisors and partners (LEAP) whose wisdom, expertise and passion guide the Network’s activities. Their leadership is critical to ensuring that the preferences and perspectives of people with lived and living experience are recognized, prioritized and enacted. The team identifies and prioritizes issues and unmet needs. These insights are augmented with additional focus groups (see below), to ensure robustness, geographic representation and diversity of perspective.

About focus groups 

Focus groups 

One of the primary aims of the Network is to gather diverse perspectives and insights. The Network conducts focus groups within various sectors or roles, including PWLLE, complex care housing settings and physician groups to provide opportunities for sharing of perspectives and experience, related to the system of care for people with unmet MHSU and other needs (i.e. transitions between services, housing and related supports, and person-centered care). 

The valuable contributions of both LEAP and focus group participants are uniquely reflected, in their voice, through the LEAP reports, which aim to synthesize the preferences, perspectives, and recommendations to guide network activities.

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