Front Entrance to The Grove in Fergus, Ontario.

HRI’s Dr. Kait LaForge-MacKenzie Speaks to Wellington Advertiser About The Grove YWHO Evaluation Project

Text and photo originally published in the Wellington Advertiser. Written by Joanne Shuttleworth. The Grove Hubs and the Homewood Research Institute have received a $100,000 grant to evaluate the reach and delivery of services provided at youth hubs dotted across Guelph and Wellington County. “We’re interested in the outcome to continue to improve service,” said […]

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Examining a “One-Stop-Shop” for Youth Mental Health and Substance Use Services

Dr. Jean Costello, HRI’s Director of Research and Evaluation, and Cyndy Dearden, Executive Director of The Grove, YWHO Wellington Guelph, have received $100,000 to evaluate the reach and delivery of services provided by The Grove YWHO Wellington Guelph, a network of Youth Wellness Hubs Ontario (YWHO) sites delivering integrated youth services within the Wellington-Guelph region. […]

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HRI releases report, convenes stakeholders to advance Progress and Outcome Monitoring in Ontario

In 2020, the Province of Ontario released its Roadmap to Wellness: A Plan to Build Ontario’s Mental Health and Addictions System. The strategy highlighted standardized performance measurement as a vital tool for improving treatment and outcomes. Since that time, Homewood Research Institute (HRI) has been bringing experts together to answer that call.

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Building the foundation for recovery monitoring in Ontario

Ontario recently launched Roadmap to Wellness: A Plan to Build Ontario’s Mental Health and Addictions System. The plan provides a clear path forward to improve mental health and addiction services and calls for a standardized approach to measuring performance of the current system – a call echoed by both the Auditor General and Addictions and Mental Health Ontario. HRI […]

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