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North Zone Addiction & Mental Health - Community Integration
We want to hear from community service providers to better understand areas to improve collaboration and coordination of services, as well as understand their perspectives on possible service duplication or gaps.
With the input received a proposed model for integrated access will be developed, based on evidence and a detailed understanding of current access challenges. This will be enhanced through the creation of a service inventory, encompassing both AHS and non-AHS services.
We want to hear from community service providers to better understand areas to improve collaboration and coordination of services, as well as understand their perspectives on possible service duplication or gaps.
With the input received a proposed model for integrated access will be developed, based on evidence and a detailed understanding of current access challenges. This will be enhanced through the creation of a service inventory, encompassing both AHS and non-AHS services.
The Community Integration & Access team, as part of AHS' Addiction & Mental Health (AMH), is working to engage with community service providers to better understand areas for improved collaboration and coordination of addiction and mental health services across northern Alberta.
This is an opportunity to strengthen working relationships through identifying opportunities for enhanced engagement, collaboration, and coordination between AHS and other community service providers.
Your input will help AHS to identify:
Existing collaboration and coordination of services
Barriers in service delivery and access
Gaps and duplication of addiction and mental health services
Perspectives regarding integrated access and a service inventory
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Next steps:
The vision is to ultimately improve addiction and mental health service delivery and lay the foundation of a proposed model for AHS Addiction & Mental Health integrated access to better serve northern Albertans.
North Zone Addiction & Mental Health - Community Integration has finished this stage
Internal Consultations (January to March 2020)
North Zone Addiction & Mental Health - Community Integration has finished this stage
Project Team met with internal stakeholders to better understand access challenges.
Community Partner Survey (Pilot) (April and May 2020)
North Zone Addiction & Mental Health - Community Integration has finished this stage
Community partners in Grande Prairie, Cold Lake, St. Paul and Bonnyville and all applicable surrounding communities were engaged through a survey to better understand opportunities for improved collaboration and coordination, as well as service duplication or gaps.
Drop-In Zoom Sessions (July and August 2020)
North Zone Addiction & Mental Health - Community Integration has finished this stage
Drop-in Zoom sessions were held as a follow-up to the survey to share the results and answer any questions that community partners had.
Second Community Partner Survey (closing November 27th)
North Zone Addiction & Mental Health - Community Integration has finished this stage
Expanding on the success of the first survey, a second survey was launched to engage with the remaining areas in Northern Alberta.
Five voluntary drop-in information sessions were also held during this time.
Information Consolidation (December to February 2021)
North Zone Addiction & Mental Health - Community Integration has finished this stage
The project team will be consolidating all of the information obtained through the various mediums (surveys, drop-in zoom sessions, virtual focus groups (tentative)) and creating a report that will highlight the strengths and opportunities regarding future collaboration and coordination with community service providers.
Phase I - Project Wrap-Up (March 2021)
North Zone Addiction & Mental Health - Community Integration has finished this stage
Operationalize Rural Centralized Access
North Zone Addiction & Mental Health - Community Integration is currently at this stage
Rural Centralized Access will be operationalized in Fall 2021.
