Eskasoni First Nation's transformation of youth mental healthcare: Partnership between a Mi'kmaq community and the ACCESS Open Minds research project in implementing innovative practice and service evaluation.

Aim: ACCESS Open Minds (ACCESS OM) is a pan-Canadian project aimed at improving youth mental healthcare. This paper describes implementation of the ACCESS OM objectives for youth mental health service transformation within a pre-existing Fish Net Model of transformative youth mental healthcare service in the First Nation community of Eskasoni, on Canada's east coast.

Methods: We describe an adaptation of the ACCESS OM service transformation objectives through the complementary blending of Indigenous and Western methodologies.