Learn, share and use the latest knowledge in youth mental health services in Canada.

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Announcement

Relive the experience of #Frayme2023! 

Our virtual shareback is now available. Experience the plenaries, workshops and learnings from #Frayme2023 at the touch of your fingertips now 

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Showcase

A Two-Eyed Seeing Approach to Supporting Inuit, First Nations, and Métis youth

Join us on October 12, 2023 at 12 PM ET for a free webinar showcasing innovative Youth Mental Health and Substance Use programming for Inuit, First Nations, and Métis youth in Canada!

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Webinar

Elder-led Programming in Youth Mental Health and Substance Use Services 

In this Frayme hosted webinar, we’re tapping into the expertise of the elder-led programs at KANDU, and Tap Elderly Women’s Wisdom for Youth (TEWWY) to discuss how their youth programs incorporate Elders in a Canadian context, and sharing unique international perspectives of an elder-lead initiative operating in Tanzania.

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Welcome to Frayme, your national network of youth mental health resources. Together we’re gathering knowledge, connecting people and supporting practice and policy change to transform youth mental health and substance use care systems.

About Us

Frayme was created to ensure that young people in Canada benefit from the latest youth mental health resources and knowledge in substance use. Because healthy young people means a healthy future and a healthy now.

Adolescence and young adulthood is a vulnerable time for the development of mental health disorders. Early intervention is important to reduce the costs and improve health and wellbeing. Many barriers exist as services are fragmented, under-resourced and difficult to access which is why a system transformation is needed now.

The name "Frayme" was chosen to emphasize that knowledge and experience are the structure - or frame - that supports the redesign of how youth access mental health and wellness services. Frayme refers to the creation of new types of structures, new frameworks, and new perspectives. Frayme is about reframing the conversation. The addition of the "Y" represents youth at the centre of the work we do. 

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We gather and share evidence and practice-based knowledge about youth mental health care.
We engage youth and families to ensure research evidence, lived experience and practical knowledge is integrated into practice and policy.
We support implementation in communities across Canada and the world, so that youth are receiving the right care at the right time.
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Countries Involved

Frayme is a global network that is uniting international partners across diverse disciplines, backgrounds, experiences and jurisdictions into a common knowledge exchange network.

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integrated youth sites identified

Refers to the combination of services addressing the needs of youth holistically through multidisciplinary collaboration across providers, services and sectors that are co-located and easily accessible.

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Network Partners

Service providers, clinicians, youth, families, policy makers, researchers and more facilitating local action, national collaboration, international knowledge mobilization.

Partners

Frayme's network is comprised of diverse international partners working to create effective integrated systems of care and improving youth mental health services and supports.

At Orygen, leadership and staff work to deliver cutting-edge research, policy development, innovative clinical services, and evidence-based training and education to ensure that there is continuous

ACCESS Open Minds is a national research and evaluation network that marks a major Canadian innovation in youth mental health service design, delivery, evaluation, and research.

Foundry is a province-wide network of integrated health and social service centres for young people ages 12-24.

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Our Network

There has never been a greater time for global collaboration and action. Together, we can transform the youth mental health and substance use systems and ensure youth across Canada and the world receive the care they need, when they need it.

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Network partners work alongside Frayme or other network partners in order to transform youth mental health and substance use services in Canada. Access the evidence, resources and tools you need to take action.