Ontario Common Assessment of Need (OCAN)

The OCAN Jam is coming October 27th from 9 – 11 am. During this time,  experts on the Ontario Common Assessment of Need (OCAN) will provide written responses to stakeholder questions using the EENet Connect online space.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:

Data are now available from the 2019/20 collection cycle of the Canadian Postsecondary Education Alcohol & Drug Use Survey. Data were collected from 21,297 students at 41 universities, colleges, and CEGEPS.

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The Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA), in partnership with the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre, the Canadian Psychological Association and Canada Health Infoway, is conducting a

In November 2020, Evidence Exchange Network (EENet) and Community Care information Management co-hosted a World Café-style event with more than 70 participants, focusing on the use of standardized tools.

Each participant took part in three facilitated, small-group, virtual breakout sessions focusing on their topic selections out of a total of nine topics. The breakout sessions allowed participants to learn from each other's experiences and hear more about how to use different tools to support client-centred care and quality improvement.

Learn about strategies for assessing client needs using OCAN during the covid-19 pandemic.

What is happening?

The covid-19 pandemic impacts all of our lives. For vulnerable populations that rely on mental health services, it is particularly difficult. Now more than ever, it’s important to understand and help address the needs of people you serve. However, assessing needs using OCAN is challenging given the restrictions required to reduce the spread of covid-19.

Learn about strategies for assessing client needs using OCAN during the covid-19 pandemic.

What is happening?

The covid-19 pandemic impacts all of our lives. For vulnerable populations that rely on mental health services, it is particularly difficult. Now more than ever, it’s important to understand and help address the needs of people you serve. However, assessing needs using OCAN is challenging given the restrictions required to reduce the spread of covid-19.

On Thursday, May 28, 2020, EENet and Community Care Information Management hosted the first in a three-part webinar series, "Using standardized tools to improve services in Ontario: Webinar series."

This webinar series is exploring innovative work happening across the province and new ways to use standardized tools to support client-centred care and quality improvement.

This THREE PART webinar series will explore current, innovative work happening across the province, and to learn new ways to use standardized tools to support client-centred care and quality improvement.

These webinars will focus on the most widely used tools across Ontario. These include the OCAN, interRAI ChYMH, interRAI MH, OPOC-MHA, and SS&A, which includes GAIN Q3 MI ONT.*

This THREE PART webinar series will explore current, innovative work happening across the province, and to learn new ways to use standardized tools to support client-centred care and quality improvement.

These webinars will focus on the most widely used tools across Ontario. These include the OCAN, interRAI ChYMH, interRAI MH, OPOC-MHA, and SS&A, which includes GAIN Q3 MI ONT.*

This THREE PART webinar series will explore current, innovative work happening across the province, and to learn new ways to use standardized tools to support client-centred care and quality improvement.

These webinars will focus on the most widely used tools across Ontario. These include the OCAN, interRAI ChYMH, interRAI MH, OPOC-MHA, and SS&A, which includes GAIN Q3 MI ONT.*

This presentation will explore using Quality Improvement with the Ontario Common Assessment of Need (OCAN) to improve services to people. We discuss the Quality Improvement approach of Experience Based Co-Design (EBCD) and share a recent experience of using it with the OCAN Network. Part of EBCD is Emotional Mapping which was used to determine drivers and offer a variety of ways to improve the use of OCAN data. We will also share how this is being done throughout the province.

You are invited to participate in the upcoming event, Using Standardized Tools to Improve Services: A knowledge exchange event for the mental health and addiction sectors, taking place on March 12, 2020 from 9am-4:30pm at the 519, in Toronto, Ontario.

Do you have clients or service users who use OCAN? Are you curious about their experiences during the OCAN process?

If so, register for this upcoming webinar, taking place on April 10, from 10am-12pm, where we take a focus group of your clients/service users through an emotional mapping activity, to better understand their experiences. The purpose of the webinar is to come up with change ideas and opportunities for quality improvement within your agency. 

Do you have clients or service users who use OCAN? Are you curious about their experiences during the OCAN process?

If so, register for this upcoming webinar, taking place on April 10, from 10am-12pm, where we take a focus group of your clients/service users through an emotional mapping activity, to better understand their experiences. The purpose of the webinar is to come up with change ideas and opportunities for quality improvement within your agency. 

Do you use the Ontario Common Assessment of Need (OCAN) or work in community mental health? Are you interested in different ways to improve quality within your organization?