Mental Health (children/youth)

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MHRC Launches New Youth Mental Health Data Hub Launch April 2025

 April 10, 2025

MHRC and GreenShield have launched this new resource to deliver unparalleled insights into the mental health of young Canadians in collaboration with leading youth mental health organizations.

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OCYA Calling for Change Report 2025: Consultation Opportunities for Young People and Practitioners

 March 27, 2025

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.

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Bill 37: Alberta.ca Amendments to the Mental Health Services Protection Act (MHSPA) February 2025

 February 28, 2025

The act, its regulation, and four sets of standards provide requirements for the following licensed mental health and addiction services: Bed-based addiction treatment, drug consumption services, narcotic transition services and psychedelic drug treatment

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MHRC Report Unsupported Needs: Access to Mental Health and Substance Use Services...

 February 18, 2025

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

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A Generation at Risk: The State of Youth Mental Health in Canada October 2024

 October 30, 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.

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Alberta.ca Canadian Centre of Recovery Excellence (CoRE)

 July 17, 2024

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.

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Culture is Healing: An Indigenous Child & Youth Mental Wellness Framework 

 July 11, 2024

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.

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CSP Workshops Preventing Suicide in Indigenous Children & Youth

 June 13, 2024

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.

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Suicide Prevention and Two-Spirited People (NAHO)

 June 6, 2024

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

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