The RBC Youth Mental Health Project is our commitment to support programs that help youth and families access the right care at the right time. We fund programs that address youth and family’s immediate need to access mental health services, a critical area identified by parents, youth and experts in the field. We have chosen to focus our funding on two areas where we believe our support can make the biggest difference:
- Navigation programs
- Technology based solutions
We will also consider supporting other programs that increase access to care if they are collaborative, have proven results and can demonstrate successful outcomes.
We will prioritize granting for programs that increase collaboration across service providers to reduce fragmentation. Our hope is that our funding will help achieve integration not just within the mental health system, but between the mental health and general health systems. We also prefer to fund programs that do not duplicate services provided by other organizations.