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OCYA Calling for Change Report 2025: Consultation Opportunities for Young People and Practitioners
The Office of the Child and Youth Advocate’s 2024-2025 Calling for Change – Consolidated Investigative Review is underway. The focus of this year’s report is how systems recognize, support, and intervene when young people experience trauma, grief and loss and the consequences of unresolved trauma, grief, and loss, and pain-based behaviours that can happen as a result.
MHRC Report Unsupported Needs: Access to Mental Health and Substance Use Services...
Diving deeper into national trends of mental health service access, this report explores how severity of mental health symptoms or substance use behaviours relates to how Canadians are accessing support
A Generation at Risk: The State of Youth Mental Health in Canada October 2024
Mental Health Research Canada's (MHRC) report is the first comprehensive and collaborative national report of its kind to be released in at least five years.
Alberta.ca Canadian Centre of Recovery Excellence (CoRE)
Based in Alberta, Canada, CoRE will provide leadership in recovery excellence within Alberta, across Canada, and internationally by informing best practices for recovery, conducting research and program evaluation, and supporting the development of evidence-based policy.
Culture is Healing: An Indigenous Child & Youth Mental Wellness Framework
First Nations are disproportionately represented in the number of people dying by toxic drug poisoning. The Our Children Our Way Society recognizes the urgency of this crisis and that an immediate and dedicated response is needed now.
CSP Workshops Preventing Suicide in Indigenous Children & Youth
Little Cub and River of Life half day workshops examine suicide prevention in Indigenous children and communities and strategies to strengthen the protective factors of young people considering suicide.
Suicide Prevention and Two-Spirited People (NAHO)
Suicide rates among two-spirited, gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered First Nations are not known, but the rates of related risk factors in these groups indicate that the suicide risk is greater than among heterosexual First Nations. Homophobia, isolation and rejection increase the risk of suicide
The Mental Health Strategy for Canada: A Youth Perspective
Created by MHCC’s Youth Council and written and designed by youth The MHS for Canada: A Youth Perspective highlights the experiences and vision of young people who are working toward system change.
Community Mental Health Action Plan (Edmonton & Area) Engagement Report
Edmonton’s Strategy for Community Mental Health Equity Deserving Community Engagement Report Prepared by pipikwan pêhtâkwan 2023
