The ACCESS Open Minds initiative offers enhanced primary-care youth mental health services integrating early intervention and community-based care models.
Youth receiving care through ACCESS Open Minds showed significant reductions in hospital admissions, outpatient visits, and public residential admissions compared to standard community mental health services.
The program yielded an impressive return on investment of 9.7, with net cost savings of approximately CA$3907 per person annually after accounting for implementation costs.
Economic benefits parallel improved or maintained clinical outcomes, underscoring the value of integrating intensive and new-to-care youth in transformed mental health services.
