Family Advisor - Carlile Youth Concurrent Disorders Centre Quality Council

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Thanks to everyone for their interest. This community engagement opportunity has now closed. Please send any questions that you have about this opportunity and or anything else that's on your mind to ce@vch.ca!

--The Community Engagement Team at Vancouver Coastal Health


What are we doing?

The Carlile Youth Concurrent Disorders Centre ("The Carlile Centre") is seeking a family advisor/liaison for their monthly Quality Council.

The Carlile Centre is a 10-bed inpatient unit within Lions Gate Hospital. It is a brief 3-week stabilization and treatment program that admits both involuntary and voluntary youth between the ages of 13-18. The majority of our youth meet the criteria for concurrent mental health disorders and substance use disorders. Learn more (external link) about the Carlile Youth Concurrent Disorders Centre.

Why are we doing it?

The Carlile Centre's Quality Council helps make services delivered at the centre better for patients, their families and for staff.

Some examples of quality council topics include:

  • Patient/staff safety
  • Ongoing education needs
  • Ensuring our unit policies are up to date and appropriate
  • Team communication
  • Documentation practices
  • Workflows (how to do carry out certain tasks in an efficient and effective manner)

The quality council is made up of individuals from the following disciplines: youth workers, nurses, a patient care coordinator, social workers, psychiatry specialists, management, a Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) Indigenous liaison, and a youth peer support worker. The family advisor/liaison will attend alongside these other individuals.

How YOU can get INVOLVED

We invite you to apply for the role of family advisor/liaison on the Carlile Centre's Quality Council. The council is seeking at most two members. Applicants can apply from the entire VCH region.

Who should apply?

The committee is taking applications from a parent who has had/has a child who struggles with addiction and mental health, whose child is at least 19 years of age today but struggled with mental health/substance use while they were a teenager. The parent should not be currently or likely to seek services from the Carlile Centre for their child for the duration of their service on the quality council.

In addition to the above, the applicant should be:

  • Available to attend meetings on the first Wednesday of every month from 10:00am-11:00am;
  • Able to attend virtually (via Zoom) and/or on-site at the Carlile Centre;
  • Able to commit to a term of one-year; and
  • Have had some past committee involvement. The Quality Council is a new process, and someone with some prior family advisory experience is ideal.

Honoraria

An honoraria of $20/hour will be provided.

I have questions about this opportunity. Who can I contact?

Please contact:

Tao-Yee Lau
Consumer & Family Coordinator
Regional Tertiary Mental Health & Substance Use
Vancouver Coastal Health
Cell: (236) 885-8169
Email: taoyee.lau@vch.ca

Thanks to everyone for their interest. This community engagement opportunity has now closed. Please send any questions that you have about this opportunity and or anything else that's on your mind to ce@vch.ca!

--The Community Engagement Team at Vancouver Coastal Health


What are we doing?

The Carlile Youth Concurrent Disorders Centre ("The Carlile Centre") is seeking a family advisor/liaison for their monthly Quality Council.

The Carlile Centre is a 10-bed inpatient unit within Lions Gate Hospital. It is a brief 3-week stabilization and treatment program that admits both involuntary and voluntary youth between the ages of 13-18. The majority of our youth meet the criteria for concurrent mental health disorders and substance use disorders. Learn more (external link) about the Carlile Youth Concurrent Disorders Centre.

Why are we doing it?

The Carlile Centre's Quality Council helps make services delivered at the centre better for patients, their families and for staff.

Some examples of quality council topics include:

  • Patient/staff safety
  • Ongoing education needs
  • Ensuring our unit policies are up to date and appropriate
  • Team communication
  • Documentation practices
  • Workflows (how to do carry out certain tasks in an efficient and effective manner)

The quality council is made up of individuals from the following disciplines: youth workers, nurses, a patient care coordinator, social workers, psychiatry specialists, management, a Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) Indigenous liaison, and a youth peer support worker. The family advisor/liaison will attend alongside these other individuals.

How YOU can get INVOLVED

We invite you to apply for the role of family advisor/liaison on the Carlile Centre's Quality Council. The council is seeking at most two members. Applicants can apply from the entire VCH region.

Who should apply?

The committee is taking applications from a parent who has had/has a child who struggles with addiction and mental health, whose child is at least 19 years of age today but struggled with mental health/substance use while they were a teenager. The parent should not be currently or likely to seek services from the Carlile Centre for their child for the duration of their service on the quality council.

In addition to the above, the applicant should be:

  • Available to attend meetings on the first Wednesday of every month from 10:00am-11:00am;
  • Able to attend virtually (via Zoom) and/or on-site at the Carlile Centre;
  • Able to commit to a term of one-year; and
  • Have had some past committee involvement. The Quality Council is a new process, and someone with some prior family advisory experience is ideal.

Honoraria

An honoraria of $20/hour will be provided.

I have questions about this opportunity. Who can I contact?

Please contact:

Tao-Yee Lau
Consumer & Family Coordinator
Regional Tertiary Mental Health & Substance Use
Vancouver Coastal Health
Cell: (236) 885-8169
Email: taoyee.lau@vch.ca

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    Family Advisor - Carlile Youth Concurrent Disorders Centre Quality Council

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