integrated mental health care

Promoting integrated mental health care services and supports for refugees in BC

Introduction

This featured research is part of the 5 year MSHRBC Scholar award which will investigate integrated mental health care services for refugees (and other people of forced migration) in BC and beyond. The research includes a series of working dialogues held with settlement organizations, health care providers, policy makers and people with lived/living experience to co create a a theoretical model about what works? for who? and in what context?. A MSHRBC Convene and Collaborate (C2) funded project resulted in A World Cafe to Promote the Mental Health of Refugees in BC: a Participatory Realist Evaluation Project health at UBC Centre for Migration Studies.

Articles

Read the featured collaboration “UPSCALING INTEGRATED MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES AND SYSTEMS FOR PEOPLE OF FORCED MIGRATION” in Open Access Government.
OAG42 faculty of Human and social development article.

Meet Our Team

Nancy Clark

Principal Investigator

Nancy will be conducting a realist synthesis and evaluation of integrated mental health care services for refugees and people of forced migration. Funding supported by MSHRBC Scholar award.

Heba Elgharbawy

Research Program Assistant

Heba is a PhD student in the Clinical Lifespan Psychology program at UVic. She completed her Master’s in Clinical Psychology at UVic and her Honours Bachelor in Applied Science degree in Psychology at the University of Guelph-Humber. Her research interests include mood disorders in youth, the impact of COVID-19 on youth mental health, and improving mental health services and quality of care for all-particularly for people of colour and other minority groups. Heba hopes to identify current gaps in mental health services, barriers to accessing services, and how to support youth mental health.

Open positions

Graduate research assistant

Graduate research assistant opportunities please contact Dr. Nancy Clark nancyclark@uvic.ca.