Purpose and Scope

The Advisory Committee provides leadership in promoting the clinical utility and integration of the BCFPI and CAFAS, with the goal of improving Children's Mental Health Service delivery at the local, regional, and provincial level.

The Committee has a responsibility to enhance and support the development of service system accountability requirements (e.g., common data set for BCFPI and CAFAS, utilization data).

Responsibilities

Develop standards of practice and clinical practice guidelines for the use of BCFPI and CAFAS thereby increasing the consistency in usage of the tools leading to the collection of valid and reliable data, resulting in increased data integrity.

Increase the clinical utility of the tools (i.e., use of tools, use the information collected from the tools, and integration of information into clinical practice).

Support the development of local and regional Communities of Practice for Ontario's Measurement Initiative.

Support the development of program evaluation, continuous quality improvement, and clinical research (includes capacity building across the system).

Develop common standardized definitions for all current and future accountability requirements.

Foster communication and collaboration with stakeholders, at all levels, within the Children's Mental Health Service delivery system (e.g., CMHO, MCYS and children's mental health service providers) regarding accountability requirements, quality standards and clinical practice guidelines.

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Membership:

Regional representation - at least one member from each of the 9 regions. Members are expected to attend meetings or send an appropriate delegate. Members have the option of attending face to face or by teleconference / videoconference.

Frequency of Meetings:

Meetings take place quarterly with one face to face meeting coinciding with a provincial conference (e.g., CMHO Summit or Sparrow Lake Alliance)

Chairperson:

The committee is co-chaired by the provincial leads for the Ontario measurement initiative for Children's Mental Health (i.e., CAFAS and BCFPI leads).

The co-chairs are responsible for developing the agenda for the meetings and ensuring minutes are accurate and action-oriented. Agendas and minutes are distributed in a timely fashion, prior to meetings. Minutes are reviewed by the committee to ensure that they accurately reflect the main points of discussion and recommended actions. It is the responsibility of the co-chairs to monitor progress on recommended actions arising from the minutes. It is also the responsibility of the co-chairs to ensure ongoing regional representation within the committee.

Accountability:

The Committee is accountable to CMHO and the Community Health Systems Resource Group at the Hospital for Sick Children.
Each member of the Advisory Committee is accountable to their region for the development and ongoing support of their regional Community of Practice to enhance dissemination of information and knowledge transfer/exchange.

Development of Task Groups:

The development of task-focused groups will be determined, as required.