Team Grant: Pan-Canadian Network: Emerging LHS in Perinatal Mental Health

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:

• Develop a pan-Canadian LHS network for perinatal mental health (PMH) that integrates research, practice, and care to strengthen the implementation of evidence-based practices.
• Enhance equitable and timely access to specialized mental health services for PMH to improve the quality of life for affected individuals and to better reach underserved populations.
• Facilitate multi-site, multidisciplinary research and knowledge mobilization collaborations to generate and disseminate evidence for new treatment options and early intervention/prevention strategies, while also refining and improving existing treatments and models of care for PMH.
• Develop and implement quality indicators for service delivery, access, and outcomes of care for continuous improvement in the field of PMH.
• Support the uptake of common data approaches and open science practices within and across provinces and territories to strengthen the pan-Canadian LHS.
• Create a focal point for collaboration across Canada toward the implementation and evaluation of measurement-based streamlined pathways of “stepped care” by taking an LHS approach to the integration of local community providers with existing specialized PMH programs.