About

In Canada, approximately 10-15% of young children have mild to moderate emotional and behavioural problems. Left unaddressed, these problems can escalate across childhood, hurting young people’s mental health and wellbeing, social relationships and academic achievement.

Families need early intervention support, but BC’s health systems are at capacity. To solve this challenge, early intervention programs are adapting to include telehealth options and group-based delivery models. These models allow more families across BC to access early intervention programs.

This project gathers evidence on the potential effectiveness and health service delivery impacts of adapted early behaviour intervention programs for children and families. We are working with the Canadian Mental Health Association BC Division (CMHA BC) and researchers at UBC to assess health systems impacts of telehealth and group-based program adaptations of the Confident Parents: Thriving Kids – Behaviour Program (CPTK-B).

Principal Investigator

• Kim Thomson

Funders

• SFU Faculty of Health Sciences Mowafaghian Child Health Faculty Awards
• Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) BC

Project Partners

• Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) BC