Deadline: 30-May-21
The Mental Health Research Canada (MHRC) is seeking applications for the Assessing and Improving Mental Health and Substance-use Care for Children & Youth.
Children and youth living in Northern Ontario have been found to have worse mental health outcomes (including a suicide rate six times higher than the average), higher rates of medication use, and more hospitalizations than their counterparts in the rest of the province.
Funding Principles
Collaboratively, the organizations are dedicated to investing in research that is:
- Innovative with high potential for impact
- Important to people with lived experience, and relevant to their needs
- Ethical and trustworthy
They are committed to proactively supporting the effective use and application of knowledge. This means they:
- Support projects that focus on stakeholder/end-user needs
- Build connections between stakeholders and researchers, and between research and practice
- Emphasize the scalability of projects and opportunities for the greatest impact
Please note that proposals submitted are collaboratively evaluated via a Project Advisory Team comprised of people with lived experience (youth and family members), knowledge users, subject matter experts, academics and community leaders in three basic categories:
- Relevance/Need
- Methodology
- Potential for Impact
Funding Information
- Selected proposals will be eligible for funding valued at up to $100,000 each.
- The term of the grant is 12 to 18 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible for this grant, the applicants leading the project must be co-principal investigators who are landed immigrants or Canadian citizens based in Northern Ontario, and who are supported by a team.
- The co-principal investigators must be:
- A researcher/academic and
- A leader or member of one of Northern Ontario’s lead or core service providing agencies
- In addition to the co-principal investigators, your team must include a youth and/or family member who has received services from these community-based agencies.
For more information, visit https://www.mhrc.ca/impact-grant-northern-ontario