Huron Perth Public Health (Clinton, Ontario)

Huron Perth Public Health takes action to protect and promote population health and prevent disease, strengthening quality of life and well-being for all.

Their SIP-partnered initiative, “Fresh Food Boxes for Old Order Amish and Mennonite Communities in Huron and Perth Counties”, will provide fresh food boxes to vulnerable families within the Old Order Amish and Mennonite communities of Huron and Perth Counties. Food boxes will be delivered by a Public Health Dietitian and Public Health Nurse who can offer other health services to these families

For more information, please visit: https://www.hpph.ca/en/index.aspx

The Well Community Collective (Huron, Perth, Grey & Bruce Counties, Ontario)

The Well Community Collective collaborates, co-designs and partners with youth and communities to create equitable, accessible and low barrier youth wellness services in Huron, Perth, Grey and Bruce Counties.

Their SIP-supported initiative, “Grey Bruce Integrated Youth Services”, engages rural and marginalized youth and communities to co-develop, co-design, and co-lead the development of low-barrier, stigma-free, integrated care pathways for youth.

These pathways will increase access to evidence-informed mental health and substance use services and enhance service collaboration thus reducing system fragmentation.

For more information, please visit: www.thewell.cc

Synergy (Chestermere, Alberta)

Synergy is a registered charity committed to the development of community organizations and youth by providing workshops, volunteer support and knowledge sharing.

SIP will support three of their initiatives, “Community Games Night, Grand Letters Program” and “Pretty & Pink”, that provide youth with opportunities to engage, develop important social skills and partake actively in their community’s wellbeing.

For more information, please visit: www.yoursynergy.ca/

Wellkin Child and Youth Mental Wellness (Woodstock, Ontario)

Wellkin Child and Youth Mental Wellness  delivers mental health care with a focus on infants, children and youth living in Oxford and Elgin counties. 

Wellkin is the lead agency for the SIP-supported initiative, “Brightside Youth Hub”, which serves as a one-stop shop for youth aged 12 to 25 to get access to the services and supports they need, when they need them, under one roof, at the right time and place.

For more information, please visit: www.wellkin.ca

YouthNet/RéseauAdo (Ottawa, Ontario)

YouthNet/RéseauAdo (YNRA) is a for-youth, by-youth mental health promotion, intervention and advocacy organization operating out of the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO).

Their SIP-supported initiative, “Ottawa Youth Engagement Committee” (OYEC), brings together a group of passionate young people ( 14-24) to partner with adult allies and organizations. OYEC provides youth voice to community projects and organizes youth-led initiatives to engage a whole network of youth city-wide.

For more information, please visit: www.ynra.ca/

Faculty of Health, Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

The Applied Health Research & Knowledge Mobilization Lab in the Faculty of Health at Dalhousie University is currently leading a national program of Pandemic Preparedness research to examine the knowledge, perceptions, behaviors, and associated implications of the pandemic on youth and their families living in Canada. They are also developing evidence-informed solutions to enhance pandemic recovery.

Their SIP-supported initiative is “Partnering with Canadian youth and families to co-design a user-centered digital health tool to manage the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and future public health crises on youth mental wellbeing”. This project takes a collaborative and creative approach to leverage digital mental wellbeing resources that Canadian youth are already using. They plan to develop an innovative, digital strategy for improving youth mental wellbeing that is intentionally designed to be scalable to maximize public health impact as we recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

For more information, please visit : www.dal.ca/faculty/health/health-administration.html