Clinical Screening Questionnaires

When youth visit a Youth Wellness Hubs Ontario (YWHO) hub, they are asked to complete a series of clinical screening questionnaires to provide mental health, substance use, and other information to help the hub best meet their needs. This is part of YWHO’s focus on measurement-based care (MBC).

MBC is defined as a systematic evaluation of symptoms before or during an encounter, and using the results to inform decision-making about treatment at the individual level . The benefits of MBC include:

• Optimized accuracy,
• Efficiency and consistency of evaluating youth needs, 
• Enhanced ability to track goal achievement and detect symptom changes, and 
• Facilitated care coordination, and assistance in informing treatment decisions.