The Cleverley Lab partners with students, youth and caregivers to co-design research that will improve mental health service access, transitions, and continuity of care.
The Cleverley Lab is led by Dr. Kristin Cleverley, a Canadian expert in child and adolescent mental health transitions. Using a multi-methods approach to research, Dr. Cleverley works with a team of staff and students to develop and evaluate interventions that support transitions in care across diverse mental health settings. In particular, the Cleverley Lab seeks to improve our understanding of mental health care in order to inform and develop interventions that are proactive, flexible, and efficient.
With extensive collaborations across education, community and hospital settings, the Cleverley Lab actively partners with youth, students, caregivers, clinicians, and administrators in all aspects of our work. We lead a research program that produces novel clinical and health system interventions to improve continuity of care for youth with mental illness, addictions, and concurrent disorders.
Why is it important to research care transitions?
We envision an integrated system of youth mental health care in which access is uncomplicated, transitions are seamless and care is continuous.
In order to get there, it is important to understand why mental health service transitions can be so complicated in the first place. Research allows us to better define the problem and the solution.
By learning more about how students, youth and caregivers access and navigate care right now, we can begin to create a system that works better for everybody.
