Ryan Janssen

Presently, my work with the Hamilton Family Health Team is twofold. After three years of providing psychotherapy in close collaboration with family medicine and other allied health disciplines, I began coordinating projects and policy aimed at improving our organization’s ability to intervene on “upstream” health determinants and work on a preventative, population-health level. Previously, I was an inaugural member of a five-person police crisis response team that won the MoHLTC Minister’s Medal Honour Roll in 2018 for “teams working together to provide excellence in high-quality care.” Our crisis team was featured several times in various media as a leading-edge development in mental health crisis response, and our team attracted interest from police forces around the province looking to replicate the success of our initiative. From there, I joined a team taking a novel approach to treating concurrent substance use disorders that present in the emergency room.