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Children’s and youth mental health is a growing concern in Canada as the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC), building on the work of the Kirby Commission (Kirby & Keon, 2006), continues to raise awareness of its importance to national well-being. Similarly, Reaching for the Top (Leitch, 2007), a national report by the advisor to the federal Minster of Health on healthy children and youth highlights mental health as one of three national health priorities in this population. Internationally, the World Health Organization has called for national address of child and youth mental health concerns, including publishing a monograph on Child and Adolescent Mental Health Policies and Plans (WHO, 2005), supporting the integration of mental health into primary care (WHO, 2008) and identifying a number of specific child and youth mental disorders in the Mental Health GAP project (WHO, 2008b). Currently …