Be Safe: Youth with Lived Experience Contribute Expertise in the Systems Improvement through Service Collaboratives Initiative

A review of the youth-centric process that led to Be Safe by the Canadian Mental Health Association’s (CHMA) Andrea Flynn. The article was published in Evidence in Action.

In developing Be Safe, eight youth contributed their knowledge of what they needed at times of crisis based on their own experience navigating the system. They also brought to the table their expertise of how to best use technology to reach youth, and how service providers can engage youth to use the resource toolkit.

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