Yes. HEARTSMAP was designed for clinicians, but we also have a self-assessment version for youth and parents now. It essentially addresses 10 different areas of psychosocial wellness, namely the home, education, alcohol/drugs, thoughts/anxiety, etc. The families or the clinicians, depending on which tool we're using, score each section based on the information received through their assessment. It goes from no issues to severe issues. Those scores are mapped to different domains of mental health, as I mentioned earlier.
It's not simply a cumulative score, but it's also a pattern of score and it looks at acuity as well. Something may be severe but chronic, with already access to care, and something could be new, but mild.
The tool uses an algorithm that's been validated against a clinician's assessment—a psychiatrist's assessment—and was shown to be valid at triggering the recommendations that a family could use to access the right level of care.
Not everybody needs to see a psychiatrist in emergency departments right away. Many of them actually have behavioural issues, have social issues that could be worked through with a social worker, or with help from occupational therapy. The instrument does the assessment, but also guides the assessment, either for clinicians to refer or families and youth to explore and access in the community.
The screening version, the MyHEARTSMAP version, is currently publicly available online for families to use and screen and access services before it becomes a problem and they show up in emergency where a clinician would then use the HEARTSMAP tool.