This report was published by Child, Youth and Family Services, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

HERE’S HOW THE AUTHORS DESCRIBE THIS REPORT:

The Youth Services System Review (YSSR) is a review of the current continuum of Ontario services addressing substance use that are available to youth (age 12-24). The YSSR project was funded under Health Canada’s Drug Treatment Funding Program (DTFP). The project aims to describe the landscape of service available to youth and identify gaps and opportunities for collaboration to enhance services and build a system to better meet the needs of youth. Given the current interest by government and other system stakeholders in responding to unmet youth needs, the information gathered from multiple perspectives, and the resulting recommendations, have the potential to inform long term system change to better meet the needs of youth.