The Frayme Podcast: Recent Episodes
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This Frayme Podcast episode was created as part of our Knowledge Mobilization (KMb) Fellowship Program.
In this episode, we sat down with Candice Anderson and Samantha Laxton from the Health Standards Organization (HSO), as well as Frayme Knowledge Mobilization Fellow Julia Parrot to discuss their collaboration on the Pathways Toolkit to Help Advance People-Centred Integrated Care. This toolkit is designed to help teams develop context-driven and evidence-based integrated care pathways in partnership with their community. Julia and her Fellowship partner Abeer worked alongside HSO throughout the duration of the Fellowship Program to conduct a case study of the toolkit. As Julia and Abeer’s work progressed, they developed a care pathway for parents and caregivers whose children access services through the Prince Edward Island Rape and Sexual Assault Centre.
Learn more about HSO Integrated People-Centred Health Systems Approach here.
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**What can we do today to create leaders for tomorrow? Host Shauna MacEachern explores this question with guests Alisa Simon, Matt Prebeg and Ed Mantler, as they talk through the growing concern for succession planning in our sector. How can we create programming that fosters future leaders? How do we shift definitions of 'lived expert' to dismantle arbitrary rules that limit their opportunity for growth? What can we learn from outside sectors? Explore questions like these and more in this episode of Changemakers.
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Alisa Simon
Alisa Simon (she/her) is the Executive Vice President, E-mental Health Transformation and Chief Youth Officer at Kids Help Phone. In this role, Alisa oversees Kids Help Phone’s national clinical programs, providing strategy and leadership to more than 150 clinical staff and thousands of volunteer crisis responders across Canada. With a focus on innovation, Alisa helps break down barriers to care by changing the way it’s delivered, measured and received and is helping drive the transformation of Canada’s youth mental health landscape.
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Matthew PrebegMy name’s Matthew, but you can call me Matt, Matthematics, or MattyP. I work at the intersection of art, mental health research, and youth engagement. I think at my core, I'm a storyteller. I want to support an interdisciplinary and strengths-based approach to the youth mental health and substance use sector. To build the skills to facilitate this, I’m currently completing a Master of Health Science degree in translational research at the University of Toronto. Also a self-proclaimed silly goose.
Ed Mantler, RPN, MSA, CHESenior Vice-President, Chief Program Officer, Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC). A highly motivated visionary and an expert at building partnerships, fostering stakeholder engagement, and aligning strategic objectives, Ed has led innovation and improvement in both health care and mental health for over two decades. As Senior Vice-President at the Mental Health Commission of Canada, Ed is dedicated to promoting mental health in Canada and changing the attitudes of Canadians toward mental health problems and illnesses. Ed is a Registered Psychiatric Nurse, holds a Master of Science Administration degree, and is a Certified Health Executive.
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In part 1 of this three-part episode, host Shauna MacEachern sits down with Mark Beckles to discuss the ways that corporate funders can better engage in the mental health initiatives and projects that they fund. Playing a leading role in RBC’s Future Launch program, Mark shares how youth voices influence program development within Future Launch and how his team has shifted from merely funding programs to collaborating and engaging with youth on these projects.
About Mark Beckles
With over 25 years’ executive experience in financial services, Mark leads the strategic execution of RBC’s Social Impact portfolios. Mark also leads stakeholder relations to cultivate and maintain key relationships across Canada including policy makers, partners and stakeholders to advance the RBC’s community investment priorities. He is a Director of the William Osler Health System and the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, where he chairs the Audit and Finance committee. He also serves on the advisory committee of the Lincoln M. Alexander Award. Mark holds an MBA in International Business from the University of Bradford and has completed executive programs with Richard Ivey School of Business and holds the Institute of Corporate Directors designation (ICD.D).
About the Changemakers Podcast Series“What will it take to build the youth mental health sector we all deserve?”
It’s a question you may have asked yourself out of curiosity, hope or - let’s be honest - frustration. It’s also a question that underpins the work that Frayme does every day.
The Changemakers Series is about curiosity and provoking multiple perspectives in order to build better youth mental health and substance use services and supports. Canada’s youth mental health sector is filled with good intentions, invaluable expertise and creative solutions but we have persistent issues of fragmentation, siloed funding and a deficit of coaching, sharing and understanding.
Join Frayme’s ED, Shauna Maceachern, as she explores her own questions around what it’ll take to build a youth mental health agenda driven by cohesion, collaboration and learning through impact. In this series, you’ll hear from those working to figure this out. Prepare to dive deep into provocative and insightful conversations with thought leaders, service providers and youth and caregivers to uncover what it’ll take to build the youth mental health and substance use sector we all deserve.Land AcknowledgementFrayme acknowledges that our office, located in Ottawa, is on the unceded, unsurrendered Territory of the Anishinabe Algonquin Nation, whose presence reaches back to time immemorial. We are all listening to this podcast from a place where many of us are settlers on colonized lands. We recognize the contributions First Nation, Métis, Inuit, and other Indigenous peoples have made, both in shaping and strengthening this community, as well as our province and country as a whole.
As a settler, this recognition of the contributions and historic importance of Indigenous peoples must also be clearly and overtly connected to our collective commitment to make the promise and the challenge of Truth and Reconciliation real in our communities, the acknowledgement of ongoing genocide against Indigneous peoples and to bring justice for murdered and missing indigenous women and children across our country. We encourage you to take a moment to think about what traditional territory you’re listening from and what your relationship is to that land.
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In part 2 of this three-part episode, host Shauna MacEachern sits down with Katelyn Greer, a youth mental health advocate and lived expert. Katelyn shares how she’s been able to integrate her lived expertise into mental health research, her experiences with poor vs good engagement practices, and where she’d like to see the sector grow from here. Katelyn brings a wealth of knowledge as a youth who has been in the space for 4 years - and she calls on the need for greater diversity, better outreach strategy, and the arbitrary rules that are associated with what being a youth lived expert means.
About Katelyn GreerKatelyn is a suicide attempt survivor and youth mental health advocate. She has living and lived expertise as a youth with mental health concerns, the mental health system, foster care system, and beyond. Katelyn uses her lived experiences to inform her work in participatory action research, patient-engagement, knowledge translation, and knowledge mobilization surrounding child and youth mental health and wellbeing. Katelyn currently practices child, youth, and family Peer Support. Youth's lived and living experience is Katelyn’s passion. She hopes her advocacy reduces stigma associated with mental health concerns, inspires people to share their own lived experiences, and further pushes for lived experiences to be heard and integrated into the broader mental health system.
About the Changemakers Podcast Series“What will it take to build the youth mental health sector we all deserve?”It’s a question you may have asked yourself out of curiosity, hope or - let’s be honest - frustration. It’s also a question that underpins the work that Frayme does every day.
The Changemakers Series is about curiosity and provoking multiple perspectives in order to build better youth mental health and substance use services and supports. Canada’s youth mental health sector is filled with good intentions, invaluable expertise and creative solutions but we have persistent issues of fragmentation, siloed funding and a deficit of coaching, sharing and understanding.
Join Frayme’s ED, Shauna Maceachern, as she explores her own questions around what it’ll take to build a youth mental health agenda driven by cohesion, collaboration and learning through impact. In this series, you’ll hear from those working to figure this out. Prepare to dive deep into provocative and insightful conversations with thought leaders, service providers and youth and caregivers to uncover what it’ll take to build the youth mental health and substance use sector we all deserve.
Connect with Frayme by visiting Frayme.ca or follow us on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn!
In part 3 of this three-part episode, host Shauna MacEachern sits down with Dr. Jo Henderson to dive deep into the ways that Integrated Youth Services (IYS) and a learning health system can augment and enhance our overwhelmed sector. As a leader at Youth Wellness Hubs Ontario and IYSNet, Jo provides insight into what’s needed at a systems level to improve outcomes and create more equitable access for youth seeking support for diverse reasons.
About Jo HendersonDr. Jo Henderson is Director of the Margaret and Wallace McCain Centre for Child, Youth & Family Mental Health at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and Executive Director of Youth Wellness Hubs Ontario. They are also a Senior Scientist at CAMH and Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Dr. Henderson’s work aims to improve access to high quality, integrated services for youth with substance use and/or mental health concerns and their families.
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On this episode of the Frayme podcast, we sit down with Alexia Jaouich from Stepped Care Solutions to discuss the development of their innovative SC2.0 program, and learn about how this model helps communities build strategic services and programs that are tailored to the unique needs of their community. Working with their clients through each phase of the project, SC2.0 offers clients support in ideation, development, implementation and evaluation. We also unpack what fidelity looks like in the SC2.0 model and why it’s important to the success of it. To illustrate the impact of SC2.0, we welcome Paula Galenzoski from Youth Hubs Alberta in the second part of the episode for a case study, where we unpack what her experience was like working with SC2.0 to implement services in youth hubs across Alberta, and the ongoing benefits it has had on these communities.
In this episode, we sit down with Cyndy Moffat Forsyth from the Integrated Youth Services Network to discuss the Integrated Youth Services Network in Wellington County Guelph, and her journey in helping to build this network from the ground up. Listen as we dive into how the idea for these sites first started, the dynamic programming offered that is developed through authentic engagement with local youth, the barriers they faced (and overcame) along the way, and how they’re evaluating their services to ensure they are staying relevant and accessible to youth in their community.
Learn more about the Integrated Youth Services Network in Wellington County Guelph here.
In this episode, we sit down with Jill Fairbank from CCSA to discuss her journey leading the Improving Treatment Together Project (ITT). Listen as we explore the disparities in opioid research that sparked the initial idea for the project, the impact of co-designed research on youth outcomes, and how the work of the project has been bridging the gap between what we know and what we do.
DR. HELENA HAWRYLUKHelena Hawryluk is a Registered Social Worker and Co-Founder of Families First: Support for Occupational Stress Inc. and Director of Warrior Kids program with Wounded Warriors Canada. She has practiced as a social worker for over 15 years with families of the Canadian Armed Forces. She specializes in developing resilience of young people within first-responder and military families impacted by operational stress injuries. Helena completed her undergraduate degree in Psychology at Concordia University and a Bachelor of Social Work from University of Calgary. She continued with the Faculty of Social Work for her Masters degree, then followed by her PhD with the Faculty of Social Work. She was also awarded the Wounded Warriors Canada Doctoral Scholarship. Helena is an instructor at the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary and Grant MacEwan University, School of Social Work.
JERRIS POPIKJerris is the co-developer of the Warrior Kids Programs and co-founder of Families First: Support for Occupational Stress Injuries Inc. She works to advocate for valued specialized support services for families and children of Canada’s military, veteran and Public Safety Personnel. With over nine years of experience working directly with children and youth from the Canadian Armed Forces, Jerris values the opportunities to work alongside families that are affected by Operational Stress Injuries. Her passion for working with children and supporting them with understanding this often-challenging concept of invisible injuries, led her to focus her current completion of a Masters of Clinical Social Work through the University of Calgary, on furthering her understanding on current evidence-based research on the impact of trauma on military, veterans, first responders, and all public safety personnel and their loved one.
Jana Kocourek is the Manager of Engagement and Standards at the Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health (the Centre) in Ottawa, Ontario. She oversees the development and implementation of quality standards for the child and youth mental health sector including the quality standards for youth and family engagement. Jana's team works with community based child and youth mental health agencies in Ontario to imbed youth and family voice within organizations and communities by implementing the standards. Jana is also a member of the Youth Wellness Hubs Ontario (YWHO) backbone team.
In this first episode of Frayme's new podcast series, our Travis Stzainert speaks to Jana to find out more about the creation and implementation of the newly released quality standards for youth engagement and quality standards for family engagement. You’ll learn about the process for creating the standards, and find out how the Center is working to support provincial organizations and services to implement these standards. We’ll also explore some of the barriers and facilitators to implementing these standards across diverse organizations.