2026-08-12 from healthexec.com/

A youth mental-health program, national in scale, has been shown to save a country’s public health system $4,000 a year per patient. And while it’s at it, the program helps young people overcome or better manage serious behavioral issues. 

The program, Canada’s Access Open Minds national network, has its two-pronged value verified in a study led by investigators at McGill University in Montreal and published in the August edition of The Lancet Psychiatry. 

For the research, Jai Shah, MD, and colleagues reviewed records from a single site of care in Edmonton, Alberta. 

The team broke the datasets into two cohorts—one drawn from around 1,500 youths diagnosed and treated through a local arm of the Access Open Minds network, the other from 9,000 peers under traditional mental healthcare.  

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