Virtual Symposium: “Responding to Complex Needs among Children & Youth in Ontario: Catalyzing System Solutions”

The Policy Bench (administered in the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto) is hosting a solutions-oriented, online panel discussion around the need to transform system responses to children and youth with complex behavioural and mental health needs that intersect multiple service sectors.

This symposium will bring together experts from the domains of child welfare, health and medicine, and education to offer different perspectives on the issue of how systems can better respond to complex needs through an integrated approach.  Panelists will present the latest evidence and observations on the challenges experienced by children and families with multiple complex needs in Ontario as well as findings from promising clinical, provincial, and community-based programs that aim to provide support to this population.

Speakers

• Amber Crowe – Executive Director at Dnaagdawenmag Binnoojiiyag Child & Family Services
• Joelene Huber & Nicole Staples-Dorey – ABILITY Program; The Hospital for Sick Children
• Kathryn Decker & Irene Drmic – Extensive Needs Service; Holland Bloorview, McMaster Children’s Hospital & Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO)
• Deanna Swift & Heather Carter – School Mental Health Ontario

Moderator: Jama Maxie – Clinical psychology graduate student and lived experience expert

Register for the Virtual Symposium: “Responding to Complex Needs among Children & Youth in Ontario: Catalyzing System Solutions”