{"id":20124,"date":"2018-03-20T14:20:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T19:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portage.hamakmarketingnumerique.com\/?p=20124"},"modified":"2025-12-02T15:31:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T20:31:39","slug":"access-to-youth-services-portage-innovates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/access-to-youth-services-portage-innovates\/","title":{"rendered":"Access to Youth Services : Portage Innovates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<p class=\"lead\">Responding quickly to youth and parents who require assistance is a major challenge for all partners in the youth drug-rehabilitation sector.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the managers of Portage&#8217;s drug addiction rehabilitation program for youth at Lac \u00c9cho initiated discussions with counsellors, partners, youth and parents to develop a project aimed at improving access to youth services.<\/p>\n<p>Project development was based on two guiding principles. The first is that each time a youth (or a member of his family) reaches out to a resource, assistance must be provided quickly and in accordance with the youth&#8217;s needs (whether that assistance is provided by Portage or a partner); the second is that the person requesting help must be accompanied through every step of the process.<\/p>\n<p>The provision of quicker access to services is based on five premises:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the availability of numerous doors through which services can be accessed (all doors are open to someone requiring services);<\/li>\n<li>the promptness of the initial personalized response (the initial contact should take place within no more than 48 hours);<\/li>\n<li>the shared responsibility of partners (each partner is responsible for supporting the youth who contact them and accompanying them throughout the service path);<\/li>\n<li>coordination and continuity among partners (ensuring ongoing access in cooperation with community partners);<\/li>\n<li>the primacy of youths&#8217; needs (providing information on existing alternatives and respecting youths&#8217; choices).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The project yielded conclusive results. Portage has seen a significant increase in the number of youth contacted who:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>made an initial request;<\/li>\n<li>completed an initial interview;<\/li>\n<li>were admitted to Portage;<\/li>\n<li>were referred to a partner.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The project was recognized by Accreditation Canada as an innovative process to provide quicker access to youth services.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/portage.ca\/blog\/seven-ways-to-start-talking-about-drugs-with-a-teenager\/\">Seven Ways to Start Talking About Drugs With a Teenager<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/portage.ca\/blog\/10-warning-signs-that-your-adolescent-may-be-doing-drugs-2\/\">10 Warning Signs That Your Adolescent May Be Doing Drugs<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responding quickly to youth and parents who require assistance is a major challenge for all partners in the youth drug-rehabilitation sector. Last year, the managers of Portage&#8217;s drug addiction rehabilitation program for youth at Lac \u00c9cho initiated discussions with counsellors, partners, youth and parents to develop a project aimed at improving access to youth services&#8230;.  <a href=\"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/access-to-youth-services-portage-innovates\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read Access to Youth Services : Portage Innovates\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":20121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46758,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20124\/revisions\/46758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portage.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}