The Margaret & Wallace McCain Centre for Child, Youth & Family Mental Health

The McCain Centre works alongside partners (including young people, caregivers, families, communities, systems) to co-develop and amplify innovative psychosocial approaches that positively impact young people living with mental health and substance use challenges.

Dr. Nicole Kozloff

Director, Margaret and Wallace McCain Centre for Child, Youth and Family Mental Health

Young people and their families need the best care possible in the right environment so they can recover quickly and achieve healthier lives.

The Margaret and Wallace McCain Centre for Child, Youth & Family Mental Health is committed to transforming the lives of young people and their families through discovery, innovation and system change.

Aligning with CAMH’s vision, the McCain Centre is a hub of clinical research, community partnerships and youth engagement initiatives. It brings together researchers and innovators in the field of child, youth and family mental health to identify and develop evidence-based changes to the way mental health care is offered; demonstrate positive outcomes; implement and sustain the changes through appropriate partnerships, continuing education and knowledge translation; and continuously study the outcomes to feed our findings back into the cycle of development.

The McCain Centre is unique in that it emphasizes extensive community engagement and partnership to ensure the needs of our target populations are understood and being met–and that the centre's findings and knowledge are shared broadly to achieve widespread impact.

Strategic Pillars

The McCain Centre is structured around three strategic pillars: discovery, innovation and system change. These pillars are inter-related, with each influencing and building from the others.