Policy coordination to support Manitoban students with mental health and substance misuse
| dc.contributor.author | Colorado, Cara | |
| dc.contributor.examiningcommittee | Janzen, Melanie (Curriculum, Teaching & Learning) | |
| dc.contributor.examiningcommittee | Bennett, Marlyn (Social Work) | |
| dc.contributor.guestmembers | Shanahan, Theresa (York University) | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Tamtik, Merli | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-08-23T15:10:09Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-08-23T15:10:09Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024-06-11 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2024-07-12T20:44:09Z | en_US |
| dc.date.submitted | 2024-08-04T15:37:09Z | en_US |
| dc.degree.discipline | Education | |
| dc.degree.level | Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) | |
| dc.description.abstract | This dissertation examines the potential for policy coordination in supporting youth with Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders (MHSUD). In particular, it identifies existing barriers and proposes pathways to multi-level cross-sectorial policy coordination supporting youth with MHSUD in Manitoba public schools. Despite aspirations towards restorative MHSUD responses, there is ample research documenting a lack of treatment and support options for youth with MHSUDs (Scheim et al., 2013; Virgo Planning, 2018). Policy fragmentation in Canada’s federalist governance model has resulted in disjointed actions in response to this important issue. Policies that work cooperatively between education, healthcare, social services agencies, Indigenous governments, federal funders and NGOs are vital in order to support Manitoban youth in schools. The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate how policy coordination might be achieved to support legislation, create policy coherence, and secure service provision to better support youth with MHSUD in schools. In particular, this dissertation responds to the research question: How can policy coordination be utilized to improve cross-sector and multi-level support for youth with MHSUDs in Manitoban schools? This dissertation draws on Multi-Level Governance as a conceptual approach, supported by insights from Advocacy Coalition Framework, and uses British Columbia as a comparator to the Manitoban context. Methodologically, this qualitative research project engages in critical discourse analysis, examining current policy documents in Manitoba and British Columbia associated with youth MHSUD in order to map out stakeholders and illuminate both barriers and pathways to coordination, in the aim of making policy recommendations to better support Manitoban youth. Findings suggest that there is a paucity of coordination between sectored actors in Manitoba around the common issue of MHSUD and that this lack of coordination exists in a system with a scarcity of coordinating actors to spur on policy alignment and policy coalitions. Resulting out of a lack of coordination and coordinating actors, schools take on cross-sector work at the grass-roots level, which leads to inequity and barriers to care. BC offers models of higher level coordination and coordinating actors which are compared alongside the Manitoban landscape. | |
| dc.description.note | October 2024 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/38413 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.rights | open access | en_US |
| dc.subject | Education Policy | |
| dc.subject | Youth Mental Health and Substance Use | |
| dc.subject | Multi-Level Governance | |
| dc.subject | Advocacy Coalition Framework | |
| dc.title | Policy coordination to support Manitoban students with mental health and substance misuse | |
| dc.type | doctoral thesis | en_US |
| local.subject.manitoba | yes |