Bright Ideas 2022: A round-up of research and evaluation activities at CMHA Ottawa

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Zoom recording: Friday, June 17, 2022 from 9:30AM - 12:00PM

The day-to-day work that takes place at CMHA Ottawa is innovative, impactful, varied and compelling. We work every day with eligible individuals in the Ottawa area who are experiencing a mental illness and/or substance use disorder, providing evidence-informed and person-centered programs and services that empower individuals and promote good mental health.

As a community-based agency, we provide outreach services, case management, housing, counselling, specialty services, training and more. This range of services makes our organization a suitable setting for important research and evaluation projects that will make lasting contributions to the field of mental health and addictions services.

Every year, our staff and clients work with students from the University of Ottawa, Carleton University, Algonquin College, and others on a variety of research and evaluation projects and clinical practice placements. These students play a critical role in supporting our capacity to engage in research, and they perhaps represent our future mental health clinicians!

This free, virtual event features students from various disciplines as they describe the range of projects that they worked on with CMHA Ottawa during 2021–2022 school year. Hosted by CMHA Ottawa Director of Integration, Research and Evaluation, Donna Pettey.

Check out this series of 15-minute presentations by student researchers on their respective fields of study, all within the CMHA Ottawa environment:

0:00 Introduction by Donna Pettey

0:38 Opening remarks and land acknowledgement by Tim Simboli, Executive Director of CMHA Ottawa

5:57 Comments from John Sylvestre, CRECS, uOttawa

10:43 Donna Pettey explains summary of presentations

12:54 Presentation #1. Maryann Roebuck, MSW, PHD, CMHA Ottawa and University of Ottawa (uOttawa) postdoctoral research fellow:
Working alliance as a mediator between fidelity to strengths model case management and client outcomes.

23:36 Presentation #2. Stéphanie Manoni-Millar and Jonathan Samosh, uOttawa Psychology PhD candidates:
Mental health and substance use outcomes of frequent emergency department users participating in a community-based case management service.

37:04 Presentation #3. Kimberly Turner, uOttawa Clinical Psychology PhD candidate:
A study of the delivery of tele-mental health services to people with severe and persistent mental illness with a history of homelessness.

53:07 Presentation #4. Lisa He , Student: uOttawa Faculty of Medicine:
Action plan for CMHA use of tele-mental health services: Recommendations for implementing a hybrid model post pandemic.

1:05:46 Presentation #5. Merelle Tadros , Student: uOttawa Faculty of Medicine:
Review of clinical decision support literature for a community mental health setting.

1:20:20 Presentation #6. Ayda Agha, uOttawa Community Psychology PhD candidate; 1:39:12 Leif Harris, Carleton University Anthropology Honours student:
CMHA Ottawa Condo Program: Case study findings and toolkit.

1:40:40 Presentation #7. Diana McGlinchey, Master of Science Victimology student, University of Portsmouth, and Victimology Research Centre, Algonquin College:
CMHA Ottawa post-vention environmental scan: services in Ottawa following traumatic deaths.

1:55:25 Presentation #8. Maryann Roebuck, Ariane Magny’s University of Ottawa Honours Psychology thesis findings:
L’identification de facteurs prédicteurs de la durée du suivi dans le programme de gestion de cas intensive / Predictors of length of stay in CMHA Ottawa intensive case management.

Thank you to the presenters!