The heroic story of Lily and Max and how they survived the Holocaust.

Video resource created by: Julia (gr.11) and Sarah (gr.8) Smith, Element High School, Ottawa, Ontario

This video came about because it was an extension activity in one of Sarah’s classes.

Sarah and Julia’s mom, Alexandra Smith (an OCDSB teacher) encouraged them to learn more about their ancestors.

The video that Julia and Sarah created and shared honours their great grandparents and offers us an opportunity to learn more about the Holocaust and the lived experiences of Lily and Max Brauer.

Intersectionalities between Poverty and Mental Illness: The State of Youth Mental Health in Canada

Hannah Baillie: Director of Policy

This report will provide details into the extent of youth poverty in Canada and the intersectionality between poverty and mental illness. A comparison between youth mental health and poverty rates in Indigenous communities will be analyzed in comparison to non-Indigenous communities. 

Integrated people-centred health services for Ontario youth with and are recovering from substance use disorder (SUDs) and mental disorders policy brief

Connie Trang, Director of Memberships

Patients who have received health services for their substance use and mental disorders, are reporting that their needs were unmet, which can be a concern, as unmet needs are associated with recurring substance use and mental disorders, and a decrease in future help seeking behaviours (Urbanoski et al., 2017).

Response to the Standing Committee on Health: Study on Children’s Health

Stacie Smith, Executive Director

The Young Canadians Roundtable on Health is pleased to submit this report to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health Study on Children’s Health.

Op-ED - Period Poverty for Indigenous Youth: Menstrual Health is a Public Health Crisis

Leisha Toory - General Member of the YCRH and Founder of The Period Priority Project

This current and pre-existing standpoint is called period poverty which encompasses, but is not limited to, lack of accessibility, affordability, and safety of menstrual products. Period poverty is a social justice issue which is about fair distribution of available resources; access regardless of gender, ethnicity, age; the right to participate in decisions which will change one’s life.

Op-ED - Decisions Are Being Made About Us Without Us

Estelle Alexander, Policy Coordinator & Previous Intern - Health Promotion, Dalhousie University

The experiences, circumstances, and outcomes throughout a child’s upbringing help create a strong foundation for the rest of their lives. The earliest years of life are supposed toprovide a child with the support, knowledge, and resources to prepare them for their futures. Childhood experiences can have the most influential impact on one’s overall vitality and Opwell-being.

"BIPOC Contraceptive Pill Access" is an initiative of Period Priority Project’s  "The SRHR Conversation"  series that aims to promote discussions on reproductive justice.

Leisha Toory is a Political Science undergraduate at Memorial University, the founder of Period Priority Project, and a SRHR activist.

Written Submission for the Pre-Budget Consultations in Advance of the Upcoming 2024 Federal Budget

Lee Allison Clark, Director of Government Relations

The Young Canadians Roundtable on Health is pleased to submit to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance for the Pre-Budget 2024 Consultations.

Strategies to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on child and youth well-being: a scoping review protocol

Co-Author: Stacie Smith, Executive Director

Children and youth are often more vulnerable than adults to emotional impacts of trauma. Wide-ranging negative effects (eg, social isolation, lack of physical activity) of the COVID-19 pandemic on children and youth are well established. This scoping review will identify, describe and categorise strategies taken to mitigate potentially deleterious impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on children, youth and their families.

Op-ED - Lowering Canada's voting age

Hannah Baillie, Director of Policy

The topic of a lower voting age has been in the limelight ever since NDP Member of Parliament Taylor Bachrach tabled a private members bill to extend the right to vote to Canadians youth age 16 and up. A recent poll by Children First Canada validated that 71% of youth were in favour of lowering the voting age. Many have suggested that the issue of lowering the voting age is not whether or not Canadian teenagers are capable of making sound decisions, but whether Canadian adults are willing to see these youth as competent, capable, and informed.

The Current On The Ground Landscape of Youth Engagement in Health Spaces in Canada: Challenges, Strategies and Opportunities

Umayangga Yogalingam - The Sandbox Project

The Importance of Youth Voices:

• Conducted an environmental scan of youth advisory committees (YACs)

• Conducted one-on-one interviews with YAC representatives to ask the following:

• Promising practices in youth engagement

• Challenges and how they've addressed challenges

• Strategies for obtaining representative membership

• How they incorporate equity into their YACs and initiatives

• Conducted inductive thematic analysis

• Collected common promising practices and challenges across the YACs

It Is Time to Call a Code for the Healthcare Crisis: Canada is Failing Children’s and Youth’s Mental Health

Raissa Amany, Magdalena Rudz, Carly La Berge, Connie Trang - Young Canadians Roundtable on Health

People say the world is recovering from COVID-19, but the crisis has expanded far beyond the pandemic. Hospitals and emergency rooms across Canada are reporting an unprecedented number of visits and significantly higher wait times, especially for mental health-related concerns.

No Band-Aid Solution Will Fix Nova Scotia’s Healthcare System

Estelle Alexander, Health Promotion Intern, Dalhousie University

Our 2023 intern has written an op-ed piece regarding the current healthcare crisis but more explicitly focusing on Nova Scotia's healthcare system and the ER deaths of Charlene Snow and Alison Holthoff. In her op-ed, she writes about the frustration felt by not just Nova Scotians but all Canadians. It explores The Government of Nova Scotia's plans to improve emergency care and details the province's healthcare system statistics.

"Abortion" is an initiative of Period Priority Project’s  "The SRHR Conversation"  series that aims to promote discussions on reproductive justice. 

Leisha Toory is a Political Science undergraduate at Memorial University, the founder of Period Priority Project, and a SRHR activist.