Through partnerships, the YCRH team is able to co-create projects and initiatives for various communities.
If you would like to partner with us on any of our Upcoming Projects, please contact us.
Policy briefs are a summary of an issue, the policy options to deal with it, and some recommendations on the best option. It is aimed at policymakers and others who are interested in formulating or influencing policy. The YCRH wants to keep policy makers accountable to policies and changes that impact children and youth. The YCRH is also a research incubator, in which it houses projects initiated by members and communIty organizations.
COVID-19 has had a huge and lasting effect on the entire Canadian population. Many voices have been heard including: health professionals, scientists, politicians, media personalities and private citizens. Yet, there is one group whose stories have not been told, and whose perspectives have not been sought - Canada’s youth. This series highlights how the pandemic affected youth from various communities, in their own words.
The Coalition for Healthy School Food is an organization that is striving to introduce Canada to a national food program. This will provide students across Canada equal access to the nutrition they need to support their social, cognitive and physical development and wellbeing.
The Importance of Youth Voices project seeks to understand the current, on-the ground landscape of what works and what doesn’t when it comes to youth engagement in health spaces across Canada. This project was inspired by an evaluation that the Students Commission of Canada did on the YCRH in 2019, looking at some of the promising practices the YCRH was engaging in within the youth health space.
The Sandbox Project partnered with the Centre of Excellence for Youth Engagement at the Students Commission of Canada to evaluate and reflect on the YCRH in its fifth year.
The YCRH engaged the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics (JCB) to establish a knowledge base that will inform subsequent phases of YCRH’s Health Rights and Responsibilities Project, a partnership with the AstraZeneca Canada Young Health Program.
In collaboration with Planned Parenthood Newfoundland and Labrador, the YCRH is putting together a binder on that consists of information on menstruation, pregnancy and birth control, STIs and safer sex, consent, reproductive mental health, sexual health clinics as well as demonstration kits that will accessible for educators and students.
The Young Canadians Roundtable on Health is planning on launching a Health Promotion Resource Booklet this summer 2023 that will be distributed amongst Indigenous communities and organizations across Canada. This booklet aims to increase knowledge and awareness of various health-issues that are apparent across Indigenous communities.
The Young Canadians Roundtable on Health will be partnering with medical and other professional youth experts to develop a book for youth 5-10 years old showcasing to youth how they can develop their mental health resilience. We hope to contribute to the resources available for children to learn by experience, through this book.
The YCRH and the Sandbox Project are seeking partnerships with organizations across Canada, where we can utilize the expertise of the broader community to create a Youth Health Engagement Toolkit that helps the youth healthcare system and the individuals making policy related decisions. Alongside our equity team, we will seek to identify specific youth that may be excluded/marginalized in the youth healthcare system.
