Grant: Catalyst Grant: Partnering for Impact - General Pool

This project will bring together a new team of community members and researchers called the Precision Child and Youth Mental Health and Population Mental Health Community-Researcher Alliance - or just the Alliance. The Alliance's goal is to make sure that new, personalized mental health care for children and youth helps all young people, not just those who get care in large hospitals or special clinics. "Precision Child and Youth Mental Health" (or PCYMH) means giving each child the kind of care that fits their unique needs. By combining this approach with "Population Mental Health," which focuses on improving the mental health of whole communities, we can make mental health care more fair and easier for everyone to access. With help from this Catalyst Grant: Partnering for Impact opportunity, the Alliance will focus on two main goals: 1. Build the partnership and gather ideas. We will work with health services and groups that include people with lived mental health experience-such as parents, youth, and caregivers-to learn what matters most to them and what they need in their communities. 2. Create a Blueprint. This will be a shared plan for how to bring personalized and community-wide mental health care together so that all children and youth can benefit. To reach these goals, we will send out surveys and hold group discussions to collect ideas and perspectives from different people. Everyone in the Alliance will help make sense of what we learn and use it to design the Blueprint. The final Blueprint will help guide future projects that make child and youth mental health care more effective, fair, and available for communities.