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Help Create a National Mental Health Strategy for Canada!
June 29, 2009 - 05:08 PM
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Currently, Canada is the only G8 country without a National Mental Health Strategy. Recently, the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) was established with one of its key priorities to develop a Mental Health Strategy for Canada.
As part of the strategy the MHCC 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 child and youth context to the Mental Health Strategy for Canada.
What is Evergreen?
Evergreen is a collaborative project that will produce a framework to help improve policy and programming related to child and adolescent mental health across Canada.
What is a mental health framework and why is it important?
Think of a framework like a blueprint for a house. If we want to build the best house, we need to create the best plan to design it and hire the best people to build it. Canada’s mental health system is no different. Frameworks help keep everyone on the same page, working together towards a common goal – to develop a mental health system that effectively meets the needs of its consumers.
Who will Evergreen affect?
Everyone. There is no health without mental health. A national child and youth mental health framework can be useful to assist provinces, territories and organizations to enhance their child and youth mental health strategies, policies and plans. Evergreen can also help to raise public awareness of the importance of addressing child and youth mental health needs, while helping to decrease stigma associated with mental disorders.
How is Evergreen being created?
The Evergreen framework will be collaboratively constructed by professionals, youth, parents and members of the public from all regions across Canada who have expertise, interest or experience with mental health and mental illness. In the end we envision the framework to be among the most comprehensive and scientifically-based child and youth mental health frameworks in the world
WE NEED YOUR HELP!!
To make this framework truly unique and successful we need your input. We need you to tell us what values and principles Canadians want to uphold in relation to mental illness and child and adolescent mental health services. We also need you to help share this initiative with others who can contribute.
The public forum will be online July 1st. When it’s ready the MHCC and our facebook group (Help Canada Create a Youth Mental Health Strategy) will link to it. Until then … spread the word!
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Re: Help Create a National Mental Health Strategy for Canada!
July 29, 2009 - 10:29 AM
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I did a sociology project related to this in Grade 12! Mental health is a very big issue to me, and there is a lot of stigma around those who have mental illnesses. Many people do not realize that those who have been mentally ill can overcome these obstacles, just as we would with any other illness, and learn to live normal, productive lives.
I was diagnosed with bi-polar when I was about 13 years old, and faced a great deal of unnecessary pain and grief due to not being diagnosed earlier. I am now in University and headed down the right track, with a very positive attitude; you'd never guess I was the same person as even a couple years ago!
It is very important that those will mental illness, and the family members of these people, can obtain the care and support needed to overcome their struggles and rejoin our society!
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