We've got growing up to do

While the development of transition services needs to be informed by common protocols and best practice guidelines, flexibility in the application of the model of care is important. [...] We’ve got growing up to do: Transitions policy paper Considerations from the Literature on Transitions and Policy Perspectives In Ontario, the care and support of children and youth is the collective responsibility of many agencies and providers. [...] We’ve got growing up to do: Transitions policy paper The absence of an integrated, coordinated system of care between child and youth-serving and adult- serving mental health systems represents one of the weakest linkages within the Ontario mental health care system, resulting in significant barriers at a point when effective transition of services is necessary to achieve the recovery-oriented ref [...] Within the definition of the developmental transition, there is an explicit acknowledgment of the importance of the developmental age of the client or patient (Singh et al., 2010). [...] In Canada, the suicide rate of 15 to 19 year olds is one of the highest in the world ranking 4th amongst the 29 countries belonging to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD, 2009).