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Typically, when it comes to most children and youth textbooks on mental health, they too heavily revolve around diagnostic criteria, say a group of Alberta educators. That gap drove Patricia Kostouros, Michelle Briegel and Brenda Thompson to take a different approach with two books launched on Nov. 22 at Mount Royal University. Kostouros and Briegel […]

At the age of 15, Laurissa Rose Degraw attempted to take her own life for the first time. Over the next five years, she tried four more times. “She made it very clear that this is how her life would end,” says her mother, Aimee Huitema. “She said it to me. She said it to […]

Despite increasing awareness of mental health issues, suicide still seems to be a taboo topic, says Kris Goodman. “Everybody still seems to think it’s a deep, dark, dirty secret, and nobody wants to talk it,” he said. Goodman started the Patch It Forward campaign to raise money for the Manitoba Suicide Prevention Line, run by […]

It’s a school day for Nevetha Magendran and younger brother Nithies. Unlike their mother, Praveena Magendran, who didn’t sleep well at the Canadian Red Cross shelter at Regent Park Community Centre, the siblings awake from their cots refreshed, albeit at an earlier hour compared to school days before the fire, when they could walk to […]

TORONTO — Canada’s global reputation as a healthy place to raise children is belied by statistics showing strikingly high rates of suicide, child abuse and struggles with mental health, a new report suggested Tuesday. Health markers covering everything from infant mortality to obesity and poverty rates paint a troubling picture of child welfare in Canada, […]

Application forms are now available for autism support and funding for families in Saskatchewan, the Saskatchewan government announced on July 17. Starting in 2018, $2.8 million has been directed towards programs for children under six with families receiving $4,000 per child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Read full article >

The new Doug Ford government is cutting a planned 3 per cent welfare increase in half and scrapping a basic income pilot program the Progressive Conservatives promised to keep during the spring election campaign. Social Services Minister Lisa MacLeod said Tuesday the increase scheduled by the defeated Liberal government will be reduced to 1.5 per […]

This is the third story of an eight-part series on the generation Z population in Canada — who they are, what drives them and how they envision their near future. Shailee Korrane was still in high school when she had her first panic attack. Eventually, she decided to seek help. “I was obviously very afraid,” […]

Bernard Richard defends record, says he’s ‘perplexed’ by criticism from Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond. After news broke this week that half of B.C.’s contracted group homes haven’t completed staff background checks, the former children’s watchdog says she worries her successor hasn’t taken an aggressive enough approach. On Tuesday, children’s representative Bernard Richard told CBC he was […]

Deputy minister wants ‘seamless day’ for those in the program for 4 year olds. The provincial government has started work on creating wraparound care for kids enrolled in the pre-primary program. The free program for four year olds, which in two more years will be universally available across the province, has proved extremely popular. Heading […]