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Peer-reviewedCC BY 4.0Frontiers in Public Health

Integration across sectors: Canada’s national action plan on criminal justice and mental health

  • Christopher Canning1,2
  • Laura Justine Chouinard1
  • Sandra Koppert3
  • Laura Mullaly3
  • Sierra Slaunwhite3
  • Katie Ellis3
  • Howard Sapers4
4 affiliations
  1. 1Waypoint Research Institute, Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care
  2. 2Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
  3. 3Mental Health Commission of Canada
  4. 4Canadian Civil Liberties Association
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Abstract

Canada’s mental health and criminal justice systems have long operated in parallel, creating gaps in care for people whose mental health needs intersect with justice involvement. In 2026, the Mental Health Commission of Canada released Finding New Pathways: An Action Plan for Criminal Justice and Mental Health in Canada , the country’s first national action plan on this intersection. This policy brief uses the action plan to examine four cross-jurisdictional integration challenges for health system leaders: correctional healthcare governance, mental healthcare continuity inside correctional institutions, information sharing across sectors, and discharge planning at release. Progress requires coordinated action across health, justice, and housing sectors, shaped by people with lived and living experience.

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@article{canning2026integration,
  title = {{Integration across sectors: Canada’s national action plan on criminal justice and mental health}},
  author = {Christopher Canning and Laura Justine Chouinard and Sandra Koppert and Laura Mullaly and Sierra Slaunwhite and Katie Ellis and Howard Sapers},
  journal = {Frontiers in Public Health},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  doi = {10.3389/fpubh.2026.1960661},
  url = {https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2026.1960661/full},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY  - JOUR
TI  - Integration across sectors: Canada’s national action plan on criminal justice and mental health
AU  - Christopher Canning
AU  - Laura Justine Chouinard
AU  - Sandra Koppert
AU  - Laura Mullaly
AU  - Sierra Slaunwhite
AU  - Katie Ellis
AU  - Howard Sapers
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/10/08
JO  - Frontiers in Public Health
DO  - 10.3389/fpubh.2026.1960661
UR  - https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2026.1960661/full
AB  - Canada’s mental health and criminal justice systems have long operated in parallel, creating gaps in care for people whose mental health needs intersect with justice involvement. In 2026, the Mental Health Commission of Canada released Finding New Pathways: An Action Plan for Criminal Justice and Mental Health in Canada , the country’s first national action plan on this intersection. This policy brief uses the action plan to examine four cross-jurisdictional integration challenges for health system leaders: correctional healthcare governance, mental healthcare continuity inside correctional institutions, information sharing across sectors, and discharge planning at release. Progress requires coordinated action across health, justice, and housing sectors, shaped by people with lived and living experience.
SN  - 2296-2565
ER  -