Community organizations: n/a

Future research / gaps identified: Perspectives of service providers were explored, and not those of the young men they were serving.

Integration timeline: not defined

Key findings:

1) Our first theme, a sense of self in relation to systems, included connections between mental wellbeing and the systems of migration, racism, and economic marginalization.

2) The second theme that arose, settling well as a determinant of mental health, included service provision in connection to coordination across systems and advocacy.

3) The third theme, system capacities and resilience, included issues related to lack of funding and wait times for service access, limitations of mainstream mental health care providers, mental health stigma, and opportunities to promote resilience among clients.

Open access: Yes

Key populations: mental health service providers working with newcomer young men

Key recommendations:

1) Examine how service providers can further bridge capacity with partner organizations and sectors to collectively deliver more responsive programming.

2) Understand how capacity bridging can help mainstream mental health service providers tailor care for newcomer young men and at the same time account for nuance and differences within groups to ensure they do not assume or reinforce biases or stereotypes related to gender.

Location: Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver