Spotlight
Brave New World
Integrated service hubs are an innovative approach to transforming youth mental health care in Canada.
Nicole Chevrier
Add wellness to your holiday to-do list
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes This blog post discusses trauma and eating disorders. Does the festive winter holiday season give you the warm fuzzies? “It’s
How to help your child cope with eco-anxiety
Distress, anxiety, and anger are just some of the psychological impacts of the climate crisis on the well-being of children and young people worldwide. A recent study, the largest of its kind — asked 10,000 young people in 10 countries how they felt about climate change and government responses to it.
Proactive Prevention
Activating an entire school community (parents, peers, education workers) can reduce the nefarious long-term impacts of bullying — a look at promising models to create kinder environments for kids
Lived Experience
Finding joy in the ordinary
Hustle culture left me burnt out and empty. Therapy and self-awareness taught me to fill my cup first.
Lived Experience
Some of us are getting left behind
Breaking the Ice at The 519 supports 2SLGBTQ+ people who use drugs in Toronto’s Downtown East through peer-led, harm-reduction outreach
Safe — and Sound
When the language of isolation, quarantine, and lockdown predominates, there isn’t much room for words like socialize, connect, or empathize. Yet even though the pandemic has made our workplaces more prone than ever to stress and anxiety, creating a culture that gives workers the confidence to ask for mental health support has always been a challenge.
Helping kids build resilience to bullying
In Canada, at least 1 in 3 adolescent students have reported being bullied and almost half of parents have reported having a child that is the victim of bullying. Yet, in most cases, bullying stops within 10 seconds when peers intervene, or do not support the bullying behaviour.
Lived Experience
Speaking up about student mental health
I finished university on grit, not support. Stigma, poverty, work hours, and relentless pressure made help hard to access—especially as pandemic stress spiked.
