Centre d'expertise et de collaboration en troubles concomitants (CECTC)

What Centre d'expertise et de collaboration en troubles concomitants (CECTC) does

The Centre d'expertise et de collaboration en troubles concomitants (CECTC) is a non-profit healthcare expertise center established in 2017 and hosted at the Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM) within the Réseau universitaire intégré de santé et de services sociaux de l'Université de Montréal (RUISSS de l'UdeM). The organization focuses on concurrent disorders — the co-occurrence of mental health and substance use disorders — and delivers a coordinated portfolio of professional services rather than a single software product. Its core offering is the ECHO® TC-CHUM telementoring program (adult and youth tracks), a free biweekly Zoom-based case-presentation model that connects frontline Quebec clinicians with a CHUM-hosted multidisciplinary team (psychiatrist, nurse, pharmacist, occupational therapist, social worker, peer supporter, psychologist, addiction medicine physician, librarian) for anonymized case discussion and written recommendations. Supporting services include a Service d'avis scientifiques drawing on 70+ multidisciplinary experts to produce concise (<10 page) evidence-based advisories, an 18–24 month Soutien-conseil organizational accompaniment service for CISSS/CIUSSS establishments, a Communauté de pratique for service-organization professionals, an annual scientific activity, and a documentary portal hosted at the Bibliothèque du CHUM with post-session scientific articles and pedagogical capsules.

CECTC's technology stack is conventional and non-proprietary: Zoom for live sessions, REDCap for self-serve registration and advisory intake, interactive PDFs for training materials, and the Bibliothèque du CHUM for content hosting. The organization employs 7 staff and operates from 900 rue Saint-Denis within the CHUM. Its go-to-market is entirely event-driven and community-led: programs are promoted through the RUISSS de l'UdeM website, an email newsletter (CyberImpact), professional networks, and annual scientific events; recruitment to ECHO cohorts happens via registration links and word of mouth.

CECTC is funded through Quebec's public healthcare system under the RUISSS de l'UdeM, and all services — ECHO telementoring, scientific advisories, consulting support, and the documentary portal — are provided entirely free of charge to participating professionals. There are no subscription tiers, transaction fees, or commercial revenue streams; the unit economics are those of a publicly-mandated expertise center rather than a commercial venture. Customers are exclusively public-sector healthcare professionals and CISSS/CIUSSS establishments within Quebec, and the organization collaborates strategically with CHU Sainte-Justine, CRDM, Grand Chemin, the Laboratoire du Dr Jutras-Aswad, and Santé Québec. Since 2017 it has accumulated four provincial awards including the Prix du recteur (2019), Prix Stars du réseau de la santé (2019), Prix Dr Sadok Besrour (2021), and Prix de l'innovation pédagogique en DPC (2021).

Name

Centre d'expertise et de collaboration en troubles concomitants (CECTC)

Legal name

Centre d'expertise et de collaboration en troubles concomitants

Website

https://ruisss.umontreal.ca

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

CECTC is a non-profit Quebec healthcare expertise center hosted at the CHUM that delivers free, Zoom-based ECHO® telementoring, scientific advisories, organizational consulting, and a documentary portal to public-sector professionals serving patients with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Professional Education and Training

NAICS

Educational Support Services (61171), Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services (54169)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090)

akta.pro primary industry

Behavioral Health & Counseling (Social Work, Psychology, Substance Use CE) (EDAAALAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Healthcare & Clinical Professional Development (CME/CE) (EDAGANAJ)

Keywords

• Concurrent disorders care
• Clinical telementoring programs
• Healthcare professional training
• Mental health addiction services
• Scientific advisory services

Headquarters

HQ city

Montréal

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Public Healthcare System Funding: CECTC is funded through the Quebec public healthcare system (Réseau de la santé et des services sociaux). Services including ECHO telementoring, scientific advisories, and consulting support are provided entirely free of charge to participating professionals. The organization is hosted within the CHUM and operates under the RUISSS de l'UdeM umbrella.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

CECTC is a non-profit healthcare expertise center affiliated with the RUISSS de l'Université de Montréal and hosted at the CHUM, delivering free professional services for concurrent disorders (co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders). Its core offering is the ECHO® TC-CHUM telementoring program (adult and youth tracks), a virtual case-based learning model. Supporting services include scientific advisories produced by a 70+ expert network, an 18–24 month organizational consulting program, a documentary portal, a community of practice, and an annual scientific event.

Product overview

CECTC is a healthcare expertise and collaboration center affiliated with the RUISSS de l'Université de Montréal and based at the CHUM. It does not offer a single software product but rather a coordinated portfolio of professional and clinical services focused on concurrent disorders (co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders). The core offering is the ECHO® TC-CHUM tele-mentoring program (adult and youth tracks), which runs via ZOOM and provides case-based multidisciplinary learning. This is supported by a documentary portal containing post-session scientific resources. Additional services include a scientific advisory opinion service (avis scientifiques) drawing on a network of 70+ experts, a structured 18–24 month organizational support and consulting service (soutien-conseil) for healthcare establishments, a virtual community of practice for service organization, an annual scientific activity event, and publicly accessible toolkits including RUCMR-PSYCH cannabis risk reduction recommendations and themed scientific notices. All services are offered free of charge to professionals across Quebec's public and community health networks.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ECHO CHUM-TC: Télémentorat ECHO CHUM-TC - A telementoring program for concurrent disorders targeting healthcare professionals across Quebec.

Products and services

• Télémentorat ECHO® TC-CHUM (Adults)

Quantifiable outcome

• 70+ multidisciplinary experts mobilized for scientific advisory production
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe CHUM hosts and co-leads the CECTC and its ECHO® TC-CHUM program. The CHUM provides the multidisciplinary team (psychiatrist, nurse, pharmacist, occupational therapist, social worker, peer supporter, psychologist, addiction medicine physician, librarian) that animates ECHO sessions. The CECTC is physically located within the CHUM.
• Hôpital Sainte-JustinecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPediatric specialists from Sainte-Justine Hospital participate in the ECHO TC JEUNESSE (youth 15–29) program alongside CHUM clinicians, providing multidisciplinary expertise for concurrent disorder cases in youth populations.
• CRDM (Centre de recherche de Dollard-des-Ormeaux — likely referring to CRDM)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Centre de recherche Dollard-des-Ormeaux (CRDM) contributes specialists to the ECHO TC JEUNESSE program for youth concurrent disorder cases.
• Grand ChemincoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGrand Chemin provides clinical expertise for the ECHO TC JEUNESSE (15–29 years) program focused on youth concurrent disorders.
• Laboratoire du Dr Jutras-Aswad (DJA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCECTC works in close collaboration with the DJA laboratory, which conducts clinical studies aimed at improving intervention and prevention strategies for addiction and mental health disorders. CECTC supports and aligns with the laboratory's research activities.
• Santé QuébeccoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSanté Québec collaborated with CECTC on the development of personal information protection (PRP) fact sheets for trainees. The organization also participates in consulting support activities alongside CECTC's accompaniment teams.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH): Canada's largest academic mental health and addiction teaching hospital. Comparable on the clinical-research, workforce-training, and concurrent-disorder content side, but operates at national scale and as a clinical provider rather than a provincial expertise hub.
• Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA): National body providing evidence-based guidance on substance use. Comparable in producing scientific advisories and supporting practitioners and policymakers, but operates federally without a hands-on telementoring/clinical-accompaniment delivery layer.
• BC Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU): British Columbia's provincial center for substance-use research, education, and clinical guidance. Comparable as a publicly-funded, multi-program expertise hub producing guidelines and training for practitioners, but with a substance-use-only focus and larger scale.
• INSPQ (Institut national de santé publique du Québec): Quebec's national public-health institute producing scientific guidance for the MSSS network. Comparable in producing evidence-based advisories and supporting public-health system practice, but covering all public-health domains rather than specializing in concurrent disorders.

Direct peers

• Programme ECHO CHUM Hépatites et maladies du foie: Another ECHO CHUM program hosted by RUISSS de l'UdeM, delivering telementoring for hepatitis and liver disease. Operates the same ECHO model, same Zoom/REDCap delivery stack, and the same public-network distribution model as CECTC.
• Project ECHO (University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center): Originator of the ECHO telementoring model that CECTC explicitly licenses for its TC-CHUM program. CECTC is a hub licensee of ECHO, operating case-based virtual learning clinics with multidisciplinary specialist teams — the same core operating model.
• Centre d'expertise en gestion de la douleur chronique (CEGDC): Sister expertise center within the same RUISSS de l'UdeM network, offering an ECHO Douleur chronique program using the identical telementoring model applied to chronic pain. Same institutional parent, same delivery mechanism, same governance — the most structurally direct peer.
• Institut universitaire sur les dépendances (IUD): Quebec's dedicated research and knowledge-translation institute on substance use. Highly comparable on the substance-use disorder side of CECTC's mandate, with overlapping expert networks and a parallel role in supporting public-network practice.

Regional players

• Pavillon Foster / Centre de réadaptation en dépendance (CRD network): Quebec's network of designated addiction rehabilitation centers that CECTC directly supports through its 18–24 month soutien-conseil. Comparable as on-the-ground service providers in the same concurrent-disorder space, but primarily delivering rehab rather than expertise/capacity-building.

Emerging players

• CRISM (Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse): National network of substance-use research nodes producing clinical guidelines and training resources. Comparable on the knowledge-generation and capacity-building side, with overlapping topics (e.g., harm reduction, opioid use) but operating at the research rather than service-accompaniment layer.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/ruisss_udem
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UC3uRXQfFec3WILzkNHs9fCg
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cectc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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