Faculty of Health at Dalhousie University is looking for inputs on a new Digital Health Tool.
The Faculty of Health at Dalhousie University is looking for participants to contribute to the design and timeline of a digital health tool to support youth mental health. The tool is being developed to support youth during times when mental health support services are inaccessible, which happened during the COVID-19 pandemic, and is likely to […]
UNICEF’s Report Card 18 is now available!
For more than twenty years, UNICEF Report Cards have measured child and youth well-being in wealthy countries. The first Report Card, in 2000, focused on child poverty for its extensive impacts across children’s lives and futures. Report Card 18 returns to this focus at a critical time – when child poverty is rising in Canada for […]
UNICEF’s Child Rights Legislation Tracker is keeping Elected Officials Accountable
UNICEF Canada has been advancing policies that help governments make children visible and give them higher priority. Policies from digital privacy rights, to dental and childcare, to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, affect children’s rights and are on the legislative agenda this parliamentary session. UNICEF Canada’s Child Rights Legislation Tracker is making it easier to […]
“It Is Time to Call a Code for the Healthcare Crisis: Canada is Failing Children’s and Youth’s Mental Health”
As the world recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become increasingly clear that children and youth continue to struggle to deal with “uncertainty, unpredictability and isolation” brought on by the pandemic, This has led to a crisis in children and youth mental health in Canada. The Young Canadians Roundtable on Health (YCRH) has interviewed […]
SKIP is looking for Youth Members!
Dalhousie University based Solutions for Kids in Pain (SKIP) is looking for youth under 25 who have lived experience with pain and who have also had previous experience as a patient partner in healthcare, health research, or knowledge mobilization activities to join their Patient and Caregiver Advisory Committee (PCAC) as a youth member. The PCAC […]
The Current, On the Ground Landscape of Youth Engagement in Health spaces in Canada- The YCRH releases Best Practices Report
To better understand what meaningful youth engagement is, the Young Canadians Roundtable on Health (YCRH) carried out an environmental scan on strategies and best practices and published their findings. The report identified the most effective strategies for youth engagement and highlighted some of the opportunities that exist when youth engagement is part of the project’s […]
UNICEF’s Youth Advocacy Program is accepting Applications!
UNICEF Canada’s Youth Advocacy Program is looking for young people between the ages of 13-24. This is an opportunity to develop knowledge and skills and learn how to become powerful advocates and activists on issues that matter the most. The program provides: Opportunity to learn more about advocacy, rights, the government decision-making process, and how […]
The YCRH’s 2023-2024 Strategic Plan is now available.
As the end of the year approaches, The Young Canadians Roundtable on Health (YCRH) have released their Strategic Plan for 2023-2024. Building on feedback gathered from members and lessons learned from previous years, the new Strategic Plan has 4 clear goals and 12 objectives on advancing youth engagement. The vision of the YCRH remains the […]
Empower youth by donating to the YCRH this Giving Tuesday!
The Young Canadians Roundtable on Health (YCRH) was created in 2013 in response to the interest generated by the report Reaching for the Top: A Report by the Advisor on Healthy Children and Youth, conducted by The Sandbox Project’s founder, Dr. Kellie Leitch. Over the last 8 years, the YCRH has grown its membership and […]
The YCRH will present at “Seizing the Opportunity: Equitable Child Health Research in Post-Pandemic Recovery”
On November 18th, the Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Children is hosting the inaugural Annual Symposium “Seizing the Opportunity: Equitable Child Health Research in Post-Pandemic Recovery” in Toronto. The event will gather leading Canadian and international academics and policymakers to discuss the role that research should play in addressing equity in children’s health outcomes […]