This webinar series is presented by the Fidelity Monitoring in Ontario Community of Interest in collaboration with Evidence Exchange Network (EENet). Learn more about this webinar series, "Building high quality mental health services - Why fidelity matters".
Fidelity as part of a learning health care system: Lessons learned in Early Psychosis Intervention
Presenters will review what they have learned through five years of work, including refining fidelity assessment methodologies, building understanding of current quality of Early Psychosis Intervention service delivery and using the fidelity results to inform program and system improvement.
Webinar goals:
- Learn about different approaches for conducting fidelity reviews, considering tradeoffs between efficiency, feasibility and value
- Hear the client, family and program perspectives on the value and challenges of fidelity monitoring
- Examine how fidelity can fit within a broader learning health care system to support high quality service delivery.
The presenters
Avra Selick is an evaluator in the Provincial System Support Program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto. Avra has been working with the Early Psychosis Intervention Ontario Network (EPION) for the past eight years supporting quality monitoring efforts, including developing and coordinating the fidelity assessment project.
Jennifer Jackson is a registered Occupational Therapist with the Heads Up! Early Psychosis Program in Southeastern Ontario for the past 18 years and has been Team Leader for the program for the past 10 years. Jennifer has been involved with EPION Fidelity assessments since early on in the project. She has been part of an assessor team for various assessments and had her own EPI program assessed on two occasions.
Tallan Alexander is a mental health advocate living in Toronto, Ontario. They currently work at CAMH facilitating courses in mindfulness and consulting on studies. They are also a musician and have been playing piano, singing, and writing songs for almost 20 years.
Lillian Duda is the proud parent of a young man who has received EPI services and she is passionate about improving services for young people experiencing psychosis. Since 2017, she has been the Family Lead for the EPI-SET research project, which aims to implement standardized high quality approaches to EPI service delivery.
For more information about the webinar series, contact Rossana Coriandoli, EENet Knowledge Broker, or Janet Durbin, Co-Lead, Fidelity COI.
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