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Youth Wellness Hubs Ontario (YWHO, www.youthhubs.ca) is a network of 32, Integrated Youth Services (IYS) hub networks that currently operate in 40 communities, where young people ages 12 to 25 years have walk-in access to youth-centered, community-based mental health and wellness services.

YWHO engages youth, family members, service providers, and other partners through a co-creation process, enhancing the relevance, acceptability, and youth friendliness of services. The hubs are provincially consistent in core features and locally led and adapted to offer and connect to a range of evidence-based services—mental health care, substance use health services, primary care, education, employment, housing, peer support, family support and care navigation—in youth-friendly spaces. Outcomes are rigorously evaluated within and across hubs, focusing on positive outcomes in areas of wellness important to youth and their families.

Position Description

Reporting to the Manager of Site Implementation and working closely with the Director of Clinical Practice and Implementation at YWHO, the Integration and Implementation Lead will lead the development of consistent, high quality knowledge, evidence, and resources to support capacity building, decision-making, program development and implementation relating to youth mental health and substance use and the YWHO model of care. The Lead will be responsible for leading the development and review of knowledge products and resources to support integrated knowledge exchange and the management and mobilization of knowledge amongst service providers, knowledge users, researchers, policy makers, community members, and additional YWHO stakeholders. The Lead will oversee the development, refinement, evaluation and mobilization of curricula and training materials for YWHO Networks and partners across Ontario, including onboarding, coaching and supervision to the Knowledge Mobilization team within the YWHO PO in collaboration with YWHO Leadership team.

The Integration and Implementation Lead will lead a variety of activities, including:

• Gathering, analyzing and synthesizing research, evidence and other forms of knowledge to inform best practices for youth with substance use and/or mental health concerns, practice innovations and capacity building initiatives.
• Planning, designing and developing curricula for trainings, workshops, and other knowledge exchange activities for YWHO staff, partners and additional service providers across the province.
• Creating and conducting needs assessments and environmental scans, identify key competencies needed for the implementation of all YWHO core components, define educational goals, objectives, and methodologies, and determine training formats.
• Determining and allocating work assignments of Knowledge Mobilization staff and providing direction, support and coaching to team staff in collaboration with the Manager of Site Implementation, Manager of Evaluation and other relevant members of the YWHO Leadership team.
• Establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships with key partners at the local, provincial and national level and working closely with YWHO partners and other experts to guide this work.
• Working in collaboration with the Manager of Site Implementation and the Manager of Evaluation to establish evaluation plans for knowledge exchange activities.
• Participating in the development of the youth mental health field in Ontario and Canada though conference presentations and workshops.
• Developing and maintaining relationships with key internal and external partners involved in child and youth mental health and substance use programming and knowledge exchange work.
• Knowing and ensuring that all CAMH policies and the Code of Conduct are observed and applied by staff.

Other duties will apply. The Lead will have an understanding of the social determinants of health and the principles of health equity and how they apply in the context of evidence and knowledge exchange. The Lead will support a healthy workplace that embraces diversity, encourages teamwork and complies with all applicable and regulatory requirements.

The Graduate College of Social Work (GCSW) at the University of Houston invites applicants whose research, scholarship, and teaching advance the social work profession and contribute to achieving this mission for a faculty position at the rank of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor.

Successful candidates are expected to develop and maintain a dynamic, externally funded research program and strong record of high-impact scholarship (e.g., publications, presentations, etc.).

We are especially interested in applicants whose teaching, research and scholarship align with the following areas:

• Health equity/social determinants of health, Aging/Gerontological Social Work, Behavioral Health, Substance Use and Addiction Services,
• Intersections of artificial intelligence (AI), human-centered design, and the future of social work—driving transformative approaches to ethical use, practice, education, and research that makes an impact..
• Macro practice/Workforce expansion, social policy/advocacy, Community Innovation and Global Efforts, and leadership development

We are seeking bold, forward-thinking applicants who will help advance our growing programs while envisioning new and innovative pathways to expand and transform the social work workforce. We are interested in candidates with a background in rigorous research methods that can support the College’s mission.

We seek visionary colleagues to join a dynamic faculty united in advancing excellence, innovation, and student success. The successful candidate will help shape the future of our programs through engaged service, program leadership, and curriculum design, and help to create transformative learning experiences that empower the next generation of social work practitioners, leaders, researchers, advocates, and healers.
 

This is an exciting opportunity to join the newly formed Bath Mental Health Research Group (MHRG) at the University of Bath. The MHRG is funded for an initial 5 years by the NIHR (National Institute for Health Research). The focus of our work is applied research aged 12-25 aimed at improving the health and wellbeing of children and young people in the local region.

This post builds on our previous findings (Cozier et al., 2025, Addiction) showing that approximately one in six vapes seized in English schools contained synthetic cannabinoids or ‘Spice’.

This post will support further drug testing work, with a particular focus on our local region, emerging drug trends, and the development of interventions.

We have a clear commitment to skills training and career development for all research staff in the MHRG. You will work under the supervision of world-leading clinicians and academics. The Bath MHRG is partnering with the Universities of Bristol and Exeter (as part of the GW4 network) to deliver this project and there may be opportunities to work with researchers at partner institutions. You will also have opportunities to receive further research training (e.g., in PPIE or good clinical practice).

Our partnering, charity UK SMART Recovery, provides free, science-based, weekly mutual-aid support for 5000 people recovering from addictive behaviours. This Accelerated Knowledge Transfer Partnership will carry out a process evaluation of an intensive recovery event which innovatively combines SMART principles with equine therapy, over the course of two weekends.

Your main duties and responsibilities will include:

1. Liaise with our knowledge exchange partners and recruit participants.
2. Conduct in-depth interviews in person across the UK or online.
3. Ensure the accuracy of digital transcripts and conduct thematic analyses of these.
4. Lead on disseminating findings in formats that are (i) useful for UK SMART Recovery and (ii) contribute new knowledge to the field.   

Additionally, it will explore systematically with a variety of stakeholders the feasibility of integrating SMART principles into intensive recovery events, providing a codified framework and toolkit to the charity, in support of future similar endeavors. In so doing, it will create a repeatable operational model to broaden the support UKSR offers and to partner with other organisations in therapeutic delivery.

As this is an accelerated funding scheme, you must be able to start immediately.

For informal enquiries about this vacancy, you may wish to contact: Rebecca Monk, Professor in Psychology at Monkre [at] edgehill [dot] ac [dot] uk (Monkre[at]edgehill[dot]ac[dot]uk)

The University of Houston Tillman J Fertitta Family College of Medicine (UHCOM) announces a post-doctoral research fellowship in the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences. The position is available beginning September 1, 2025 or after to work with James H. Bray, PhD in his Family Health Laboratory and other BSS faculty. The FH Lab investigates family and developmental factors that influence adult, child and adolescent adjustment, behavioral problems, alcohol and substance abuse, and health. In addition, the lab develops and evaluates prevention and intervention methods that promote healthy behaviors and ameliorate problem behaviors and substance use in family and school settings. The lab is currently using AI to develop apps for evaluation and intervention for substance use problems in collaboration with computer scientists.

Post doc is expected to work full-time for one year, with possible extension to two years. Post doc will help Dr. Bray manage his laboratory, conduct new studies, conduct analyses of existing databases and help prepare grant applications for future funding. Post doc will help with laboratory development, organization and training. Post doc will also help supervise students and other trainees.

Post doc needs to have advanced data analytic skills including structural equation modeling, growth curve modeling, and longitudinal data analyses (using MPlus) and be interested in applying those to existing data sets. Existing datasets include the following: Development Issues in Stepfamilies Research Project, Adolescent Alcohol and Substance Use Research Project, Pregnant and Post-partum women in recovery, Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) Project.

Possesses, understands, and applies a comprehensive knowledge in area of specialization. Develops understanding and skills to allow for completion of assignments that cross fields of specialization. Develops leadership and management skills.

1. Receives/Reviews progress and evaluates results of experiments or projects under control or supervisory responsibility.
2. Recommends changes in research, testing or experimental procedures.
3. May be responsible for a single highly technical and complex piece of research equipment.
4. May review and evaluate the effectiveness of personnel.
5. May plan for and assign personnel to projects under control.
6. Operates with latitude for unreviewed action.
7. May receive general supervision conferring with higher levels only in unusual situations.
8. Performs other job-related duties as required.

MQ: Requires singular knowledge of a specialized advanced professional discipline or the highest level of general business knowledge, normally acquired through attainment of a directly job-related terminal degree or equivalent formal training in a recognized field of specialization that is directly related to the type of work being performed. No experience is required.

The University of North Florida (UNF), Department of Public Health is seeking an Assistant Professor for a 9-month tenure track position in the CACREP accredited master's program in Clinical Mental Health Counseling (CMHC), to start in fall 2026. The teaching load is two courses in fall, two courses in spring, with summer teaching available for additional pay. Position responsibilities include teaching graduate courses, conducting and publishing research in areas of expertise, seeking extramural funding, and performing university, community, and professional service. This is a full-time campus based CMHC faculty position with 50% assigned time for teaching, 40% assigned time for scholarly activity, and 10% assigned time for service.

Anticipated Start Date: The position is expected to begin on August 3, 2026.

The position we are recruiting for is situated within the Substance use, harms and responses unit, and the selected candidate will be reporting to the Head of the Health and social responses sector. The jobholder will contribute to the achievement of objectives and outputs in the area of health and social responses to drug-related problems at the individual and societal levels. The focus will be on treatment and related interventions, including outcomes, service quality, social reintegration and comorbidity. The jobholder will be working within the framework of the EUDA’s mandate, responsible for implementing work programme activities, both sector-related and transversal.

The successful applicant will be requested to perform the following main tasks and responsibilities:

• act as a point of reference on health and social responses to drugs, with a focus on drug-related treatment;
• play a key role in the agency’s monitoring and evaluation of drug treatment quality and outcomes analysis;
• coordinate the agency’s developmental work in quality assurance and quality standards in drug treatment services and systems;
• coordinate the development of the EU-QUALITY project on European services quality standards, its implementation and follow-up;
• contribute to the agency’s work with capacity development, capacity building and training for professionals of drug services and systems;
• keep abreast of the latest research and emerging developments in the relevant fields, including drafting rapid reviews for responding to emerging threats;
• draft evidence syntheses and develop high-quality data reporting tools and instruments for implementation and evaluation sciences in areas relevant to drug treatment;
• contribute to the core work and main products of the agency, including the data collection workbooks, the European Drug Report, the European Responses Guide, new services developed by the agency, and the drafting and reviewing of other EUDA publications, as requested;
• support the agency’s work in monitoring health and social services and interventions beyond Europe, as necessary;
• contribute to the general scientific planning and development of the agency;
• contribute to both planned and ad hoc transversal projects;
• represent the agency in relevant scientific meetings and conferences.