Youth Wellness Hubs Ontario (YWHO, www.youthhubs.ca) is a network of 32,

Integrated Youth Services (IYS) networks that currently operate in over 40

communities, where young people ages 12 to 25 years have walk-in access to youth-centered, community-based mental health and wellness services. YWHO engages youth, family members, service providers, and other partners through a co-creation process, enhancing the relevance, acceptability, and youth friendliness of services. The hubs are provincially consistent in core features and locally led and adapted to offer and connect to a range of evidence- based services—mental health care, substance use health services, primary care,

education, employment, housing, peer support, family support and care. As IYS expands across the country, work is underway to implement a pan-Canadian youth data platform, that will allow YWHO, together with IYS from across the country, to share data and knowledge about the experiences and needs of youth and families, the impact of IYS services, and how best to expand IYS so that all young people in Canada are supported to reach their inherent potential for wellness and growth. Foundational to implementing the IYS data platform will be a youth- and equity-focused data governance framework that ensures that IYS data are of high quality, secure, accessible, and appropriately shared and used.

To support this, YWHO is seeking a full time, 2-year contract Research Methods

Specialist (Data Steward).

The Data

Steward will support the development and continuous improvement of YWHO’s data governance framework,



as well as YWHO’s participation in the implementation of the pan-Canadian IYS data platform by managing and overseeing YWHO’s data assets to ensure data quality, privacy,

security and compliance.

The Data

Steward will also support other YWHO research,

evaluation, and data quality initiatives by supporting the enhancement of data infrastructure and related capacity building activities. Reporting to

YWHO’s Director, Data Management and Evaluation, the successful candidate will work with internal YWHO data holders, other IYS Data Stewards and research partners from across Canada, data engineers from CAMH’s Krembil Centre for

Neuro-informatics (KCNI), and project managers, to ensure the effective, ethical and responsible incorporation, use, and management of data for various use cases of the IYS data platform as well as for other youth mental health research projects. Through its core values of Courage, Respect and Excellence, CAMH is implementing its Strategic Plan: Connected CAMH, to transform lives, ignite innovation and discovery, revolutionize education and drive social change. CAMH is more than a hospital, it is a cause.

CAMH is on a mission to change the way society thinks about and responds to mental illness. They aim to eliminate prejudice and discrimination and shape a world where mental illness is central to our healthcare system – a world where Mental Health is Health. To learn more about CAMH, please visit their website at: www.camh.ca.

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📌 Research Methods Specialist (Data Steward) - Youth Wellness Hubs Ontario (Toronto)
🏢 CAMH
📍 Toronto