CH&E Specialist (Integration & Implementation Specialist) - Youth Wellness Hubs Ontario
About The Position
Youth Wellness Hubs Ontario (YWHO) is a network of 32 Integrated Youth Services (IYS) hubs providing youth aged 12-25 with walk-in access to youth-centered, community-based mental health and wellness services. These services are informed by youth, family members, and service providers. The hubs are provincially consistent in core features but locally led and adapted, offering and connecting to a range of evidence-based services including mental health care, substance use, primary care, education, employment, housing, peer support, family support, and care navigation in youth-friendly spaces. Outcomes are rigorously evaluated within and across hubs, focusing on positive outcomes in areas of wellness important to youth and their families. This initiative engages youth, family members, and other partners through a co-creation process, ensuring services are designed and delivered according to their needs. The YWHO Provincial Office (PO) at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is seeking a full-time, permanent CH&E Specialist (Integration and Implementation Specialist, PreVenture). This position will report to the Manager of Early Intervention and Prevention. The Integration and Implementation Specialist will play a key role in supporting an Integrated Youth Services (IYS) delivery model within local YWHO networks and community partners, including the implementation of the PreVenture program. PreVenture is an evidence-based prevention program that uses personality-focused interventions to promote mental health and delay substance use among youth (aged 12-18). YWHO PO, in partnership with School-Mental Health Ontario (SMH-ON), is supporting the implementation of the PreVenture program in school boards across the province, in collaboration with local YWHO Networks. YWHO is also supporting delivery of the program in the community, through additional partners and youth-serving agencies. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with the Early Intervention and Prevention team as well as the Integration and Implementation Team to bring specific expertise in the areas of Implementation Science, Quality Improvement, change management, partner engagement and co-development, knowledge mobilization, and system change. The successful candidate will have a strong background in anti-oppressive and anti-racist practice, excellent knowledge of equity frameworks and tools, and significant experience supporting others to identify, prioritize, and develop equity-focused actions that advance meaningful and sustained change. The Integration and Implementation Specialist will support the active involvement of Indigenous communities and service providers in all stages of implementation, providing tailored and contextualized support at an agency and system level, including active outreach and engagement with Indigenous and First Nations-led organizations and communities, as well as the development of implementation tools and the ongoing support of program implementation and development with First Nations and Indigenous communities within Ontario. Through its core values of Courage, Respect and Excellence, CAMH is implementing its Strategic Plan: Connected CAMH, to transform lives, ignite innovation and discovery, revolutionize education and drive social change. CAMH is more than a hospital, it is a cause. CAMH is on a mission to change the way society thinks about and responds to mental illness. They aim to eliminate prejudice and discrimination and shape a world where mental illness is central to our healthcare system – a world where Mental Health is Health.
Requirements
- Strong background in anti-oppressive and anti-racist practice.
- Excellent knowledge of equity frameworks and tools.
- Significant experience supporting others to identify, prioritize, and develop equity-focused actions that advance meaningful and sustained change.
Nice To Haves
- Expertise in Implementation Science.
- Expertise in Quality Improvement.
- Expertise in change management.
- Expertise in partner engagement and co-development.
- Expertise in knowledge mobilization.
- Expertise in system change.
Responsibilities
- Play a key role in supporting an Integrated Youth Services (IYS) delivery model within local YWHO networks and community partners.
- Support the implementation of the PreVenture program.
- Work collaboratively with the Early Intervention and Prevention team as well as the Integration and Implementation Team.
- Bring specific expertise in the areas of Implementation Science, Quality Improvement, change management, partner engagement and co-development, knowledge mobilization, and system change.
- Support the active involvement of Indigenous communities and service providers in all stages of implementation.
- Provide tailored and contextualized support at an agency and system level.
- Conduct active outreach and engagement with Indigenous and First Nations-led organizations and communities.
- Develop implementation tools and provide ongoing support of program implementation and development with First Nations and Indigenous communities within Ontario.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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