Advancing Community-Based Collaborative Mental Health Care Through Interdisciplinary Family Health Teams in Ontario

Collaborative mental health care is a widely advocated model of community-based mental health care delivery. Previous work suggests that several contextual factors, such as the lack of stable funding for non-physician providers, have prevented widespread implementation of this model in Ontario. The introduction of interdisciplinary Family Health Teams (FHTs) as part of Ontario's primary health care renewal strategy presents an opportunity to …