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Jess Wishart
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Help Create a National Mental Health Strategy for Canada!
June 29, 2009 - 04:26 PM
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Help Canada Create a Child and Youth Mental Health Strategy
In Canada, approximately 1 in 5 children and adolescents experience some form of mental disorder. Most major mental disorders begin prior to the age of 25, making this period a critical time for the promotion and treatment of mental health problems.
One of the key initiatives of the Mental Health Commission of Canada is to develop a Mental Health Strategy for Canada. As part of the strategy the Child and Youth Advisory Committee of the Mental Health Commission of Canada will support the development of a framework specific to the needs of child and youth mental health.
The proposed framework, entitled Evergreen, will complement and provide a child and youth context to the Mental Health Strategy for Canada.
A framework for child and youth mental health is important because it helps keep everyone on the same page, working together towards a common goal – to develop a mental health system that effectively meets the needs of young people living with mental disorders and to encourage optimal development of young people.
Evergreen will be collaboratively developed by professionals, youth, parents and members of the public from across Canada who have expertise, interest or experience with mental health and mental illness.
In the end we envision Evergreen to be among the most comprehensive child and youth mental health frameworks in the world!
How YOU Can Make a Difference
Help us share this information and shape the future of Canada’s mental health system!
Engage - we want people to share their opinions with us about what values Canadians want to uphold in relation to mental health and child and adolescent mental health services. Share your voice at https://surveys.dal.ca/opinio/s?s=5857.
Educate - an informed public is a strong public. We want to give people the best available info to make good decisions about their mental health. Learn more about youth mental health and mental illness at www.teenmentalhealth.org, www.ementalhealth.ca, www.camh.net, www.onthepoint.ca, www.hincksdellcrest.org.
Advocate - the Mental Health Commission of Canada is committed to creating a comprehensive mental health strategy for Canada and are in support of a component specific to the needs of children and youth. Youth mental health will stay in the shadows unless we speak up and advocate for change. Learn more at www.mentalhealthcommission.ca.
Connect - join our group on Facebook and invite your friends! Our page is called “Help Canada Create a Youth Mental Health Strategy” – www.facebook.com/youthmentalhealth
Evergreen is a project of the Child and Youth Advisory Committee of the Mental Health Commission of Canada. Funding for this project is provided by the Mental Health Commission of Canada with additional support from the Sun Life Financial Chair in Adolescent Mental Health, IWK Health Centre, T. R. Meighen Family Foundation, and Kathryn A. Weldon Foundation.
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This post was edited on: 2009-07-08 at 08:31 AM by: JessWishart
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Re: Help Create a National Mental Health Strategy for Canada!
June 30, 2009 - 11:15 AM
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Also! To complement this, there will be a National Symposium on Youth Mental Health in Ottawa in November 2009 where people will be given a forum to discuss the Evergreen framework. Please remember that 70% of adults with mental illnesses experience its onset during adolescence.
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