Our Expertise

Mental health system transformation
We are dedicated to collaborating with communities, institutions, and jurisdictions to support your transformation in providing flexible, accessible and high-quality mental health and substance use health services for everyone.
Guided by our evidence-informed Stepped Care 2.0 framework, our expert team will support you in understanding, planning, and achieving a mental health system transformation that is impactful and sustainable.
SCS has extensive experience leading the implementation of strategic clinical and population-level mental health system transformations that include technology solutions for service delivery that is responsive to and reflective of the unique contexts, strengths, and needs of our partners. Our ability to tailor approaches and plans to specific contexts is a unique strength. The large and complex initiatives we lead, and support, are made possible through our focus on partnership, innovation, training and community engagement.
The SCS team is comprised of experts and leaders across a range of disciplines including:
- Implementation Science and change management
- One-at-a-time (OAAT) approaches and therapeutic practice
- Trauma-informed practice/GBA+
- Mental health recovery oriented and strength-based interventions
- Co-design, open access and capacity building
- Evaluation, analysis and data-informed decision-making
- Peer-to-peer engagement, support and training
- System navigation
- E-Mental health
- Synergy (SCS’s approach to diversity, equity and inclusivity)
Implementation science, change management and ongoing evaluation inform every aspect of system transformation; when we rely on information to inform outcomes, we address, bias, inequities, influence and assumptions. Find out more about the SC2.0 model.
Explore the areas of our expertise in the links above or connect with us to begin transforming your system and services.

…more people are receiving timely, high quality appropriate care with significant waitlist reductions.