Your voice can help others
Help improve access to mental health and substance use services for other young people by sharing your past experiences.
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25
Questions -
10
Minutes to complete -
$100
Chance to win a gift card
Make your voice heard
The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) is working with federal, provincial and territorial governments to understand the experience of youth age 13 to 24 with mental health and substance use services. Your responses can help shape how these services can be improved.
Complete the Early Intervention survey now to help improve mental health and substance use services.
What’s covered by the Early Intervention survey
To help improve mental health and substance use services, it's important for health care decision-makers to understand current barriers. Here are some of the topics covered by the survey:
- Issues or concerns with mental health
- Issues or concerns with substance use
- What services you have or haven't accessed
- How the services were delivered
- Barriers to receiving services
- Reasons for not seeking help for concerns
Win a $100 gift card
We appreciate your time and willingness to share your experience to help improve access to important services. As a thank you, at the end of the survey you can enter to win a $100 gift card from your choice of retailers like Amazon, Apple, Cineplex, and Xbox. Some rules apply and can be found on the survey.
Take the survey
How your responses help
By better understanding current barriers to young people receiving the mental health and substance use services they need, health care systems can implement policies and/or processes to help improve or address things like
- Access to services
- The number of services provided
- Barriers to access
Who is CIHI?
The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) provides comparable and actionable data and information that are used to accelerate improvements in health care, health system performance and population health across Canada.
CIHI will provide aggregated results to health care decision-makers and the public to help better understand the challenges experienced when accessing mental health and substance use services, and how to improve access to these services within their jurisdictions.
Questions or concerns?
If you have any questions about the survey, please email hspspecialprojects@cihi.ca
Get Help
If you'd like mental health support, you can get help from the Public Health Agency of Canada online at Get help here: Mental health support, or you can access immediate crisis support by texting “WELLNESS” to 741741 (for adults) or 686868 (for youth). You can seek additional support 24/7 online at Kids Help Phone or by phone at 1-800-668-6868.