Featured Partner Resources: Mental Health Commission of Canada
Changing Directions, Changing Lives and Taking the Next Step Forward
In March 2013, the Mental Health Commission of Canada’s Youth Council (YC) came up with the idea to rewrite or “translate,” from a youth perspective, Changing Directions, Changing Lives: The Mental Health Strategy for Canada. The main aim of their project was to develop a supplemental document that highlights the experiences and vision of young people working toward system change, ultimately making the original Strategy a more accessible document to all.
Introducing the EduTox Video Challenge!
The Sandbox Project’s EduTOX Video Challenge officially opens on January 21, 2016
At last November’s Prenatal Environmental Health Education (PEHE) Forum, a core recommendation was that the focus of Environmental Health education efforts must go beyond pregnant women and include students and young adults to raise awareness of issues that could have significant impacts on the health of their future children and their own health over the long term. To engage youth on health-environment linkages, a national video competition was proposed whereby participants would be invited to produce short videos communicating key Environmental Health messages.In partnership with the Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment (CPCHE), the David Suzuki Foundation, the Lung Association of New Brunswick, Pollution Probe, the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, the University of Ottawa, Yellow Pages Canada and the Young Canadians Roundtable on Health, we are proud to introduce the EduTox Video Challenge.
Helping Canadian communities help Syrian refugees
Caring for Kids New to Canada: a new resource for people who work with immigrant and refugee children, youth and families
The federal government has committed to bringing 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada over the coming weeks and months. Many of these will be children and youth, who will have a range of physical, emotional and mental health needs.
Caring for Kids New to Canada is a comprehensive resource for people who work with immigrant and refugee children, youth and families. Developed by the Canadian Paediatric Society with input from a range of experts and organizations, the site has evidence-based information on medical conditions, mental health, child development, and much more. It also has a range of tools, checklists and links to local resources.
Vision Zero: A lecture on the future of road safety
Parachute to host Vision Zero: A lecture on the future of road safety event
The multi-national road traffic safety project has been gaining traction across the world with cities in the Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States jumping on board. Parachute is happy to host Vision Zero: A lecture on the future of road safety, a dialogue on leading practices from a pioneer in the field. The purpose is to inspire collective action in Toronto around the future of road safety. Dr. Belin’s learnings are instrumental in envisioning how road safety and urbanism in cities like Toronto.
Report from the International Association of Youth Mental Health Conference
From October 8 to 10th, I had the extremely humbling and exciting opportunity to represent the Young Canadians Roundtable on Health (YCRH) at the International Association of Youth Mental Health conference in Montreal, Quebec. This opportunity would not have been possible without the generous support of the Graham Boeckh and two other Foundations.
I started off my conference journey by attending the pre-conference workshop around using social media to engage youth and the opening reception. I spent hours getting to know the folks in the workshop, learning about best practices and the process of rapid prototyping as problem solving. My greatest take away from the session however, was around language and words from various countries and the way they resonate with different people. The day concluded with the opening reception where I had the chance to meet with many people from various countries such as Australia, Scotland, and the USA and I met the Norfolk and Suffolk youth advisory council for the first time, who in the end became my adopted family.
CCK Study: Are Canadian parents leaving kids’ mental well-being off the dinner table?
Taking the Pulse of Canada’s Kids: A Landmark Study on Physical, Social, Emotional and Mental Well-being
Despite ranking the mental well-being of their kids as the top concern, Canadian parents aren’t talking about it with them. According to new data from Taking the Pulse of Canada’s Kids: A Landmark Study on Physical, Social, Emotional and Mental Well-being, by Companies Committed to Kids (CCK), parents and kids are much more likely to discuss schoolwork (90 per cent), healthy eating (69 per cent), physical activity (61 per cent), friendships (57 per cent) and technology/media (51 per cent) over managing stress (28 per cent).
60 Minute Kids’ Club and Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame announce partnership
60 Minute Kids’ Club and Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame partner for greater physical literacy levels and participation in sports of Canadian kids
Vancouver, BC – 60 Minute Kids’ Club and Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame are pleased to announce their partnership to support greater physical literacy levels and sports participation of Canadian children.
The partners have rallied around their core competencies and a common purpose: to help kids become physically literate, with the skills that enable participation in sports from an early age and throughout their lives. Such skill development has fallen off significantly over the past decades. 60MKC and Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame have come together to ensure Canadians are supported in reaching physical literacy by focusing on children and youth.
PHE Canada: The 2015 Healthy School Communities National Forum
Registration is now open for PHE Canada’s 2015 Healthy School Communities National Forum
The 2015 Healthy School Communities National Forum will equip you with the tools, evidence, network, and motivation to support schools become more comprehensive in their approach to school health and move toward healthier outcomes.
Through keynotes, plenaries and breakout sessions, you will discover strategies for fostering a healthy school community, hear and share stories of successful initiatives, gain an understanding of how to use evidence in support of a healthy school community approach, and be motivated to affect positive change in your local school or school jurisdiction.
The YCRH at the National NGO Forum for a Canadian Commissioner for Children and Young People
On July 10 and 11, different representatives from a number of non-government organizations came together in Moncton, New Brunswick to talk about the need for a Canadian Commissioner for Children and Young People. My co-chair, Alicia Raimundo and I, represented the Young Canadians Roundtable on Health at the event. Over the course of six hours, we discussed: What should or could the role of the commissioner be? Who else should be sitting at the table? What is the plan of action we all need to contribute to in order to make this work? What would it change?
Announcing the 6th Annual Sandbox Project Conference
Save the date for the 6th Annual Sandbox Project Conference on January 21, 2016
The annual Sandbox Project Conference is a collaborative venue for experts and conference participants to work together across sectors on strategies to improve health outcomes for young people throughout Canada.