Frayme, 2020

It is a necessity that youth voices be central in policy-making. As the future of this country, it is vital to be involved in decision making and undergo the experience. If you were affected, wouldn't you want to have a say? For organizations and systems, all groups of society need to be included. Youth want to be engaged in forming an influence on their lives.

Government of New Brunswick, 2021

The Child, Youth, and Seniors’ Advocate appointed the members of the Advisory Councils for the Youth Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Services Review and launched new information gathering tools today.

Telegraph Journal, 2021

The COVID-19 Pandemic has had a negative impact on youth health and well-being across the country - specifically mental and physical health issues.

Canadian Coalition for Youth, Peace & Security, 2021

As we build back together from the pandemic, the implementation of the Youth, Peace and Security (YPS) pillar on prevention can be utilized to consider mental health challenges faced by young people.

Young Canadians Roundtable on Health, 2021

The objectives of the provincial focus groups conducted in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and British Columbia is to:

1) Understand what youth think about school food programs

2) Understand what youth think their preferred school food program will look like; this will include understanding youths’ vision for a national school food program, as well as hearing the youth perspective on how the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic has restricted access of school food programs and impacted the health and wellbeing of students

Mood Disorders of Canada, 2021

Children shouldn’t have to die for mental health to get attention. Yet, many communities find

themselves spurred into action in the wake of the preventable loss of young lives.

Healthy Debate, 2021

It’s useful to remember that post-secondary students had to adapt their entire academic and social lives due to school closures brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, taking away opportunities for socializing, hitting milestones and solidifying their careers. The uncertainty led many youth to delay the beginning of their education or move back in with their parents. Restrictions and vaccine mandates mean some of this is still happening.

BMJ Open, 2022

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 categorize strategies taken to mitigate potentially deleterious impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on children, youth and their families.

Young Canadians Roundtable on Health, 2022

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.

Tamarack Institute, 2022

At the Young Canadians Roundtable on Health (YCRH) we know full well that empowering youth voices and facilitating engagement/partnership in health spaces can lead to better health outcomes in children and youth.

Centre for Employment Innovation, 2022

Learn about tokenism, and how to avoid it, in this piece by CEI Youth Advisory Group member Stacie.

Coalition for Healthy School Food, 2023

Youth engagement within school food and food insecurity spaces is critical to a successful national school food program, one that is designed with input from the individuals who will be making the most of it. Youth being given a voice in the conversation of creating a national school food program was a new initiative being undertaken.

Scientific Reports, 2023

The COVID‑19 pandemic negatively impacted the mental health of children, youth, and their families which must be addressed and prevented in future public health crises. Our objective was to measure how self‑reported mental health symptoms of children/youth and their parents evolved during COVID‑19 and to identify associated factors for children/youth and their parents including sources accessed for information on mental health.

BMJ Open, 2023

The impacts of COVID-19 may have detrimental effects on youth mental well-being; care for youth with mental health disorders was already overstretched, underfunded and fragmented before the pandemic and youth are not often considered in mental health initiatives. There is a pressing need to partner with youth and families to target and improve youth mental well-being prior to the onset of a mental health disorder, as well as to conduct research on youth mental well-being needs related to pandemic recovery. Here we present a protocol for partnering with youth and families to codesign a user-centred digital tool for youth mental well-being.

Saje Journals, 2023

Co-designing research-informed guidelines with youth for adapting research methods to other contexts has received little research attention. We report on approaches co-designed with youth for adapting arts-based methods (ABM) for youth mental health (MH) research in online environments. Seven youth co-researchers participated in 3 co-design workshops and 2 graphic recording focus groups. Data analysis involved a thematic analysis approach. We identified one overarching theme (sustaining mindful presence when conducting research) and 4 subthemes (creating a safe space, youth having a say, facilitating meaningful engagement, and paying receptive attention throughout the research process).

BMC Public Health, 2024

Children and youth experienced marked impacts on day-to-day life in the COVID-19 pandemic that were associated with poorer familial and friend relationships and greater mental health challenges. Few studies provide self-report data on mental health symptoms from children and youth themselves. We sought to examine the associations between social factors and child and youth self-reported symptoms of worsened mood, anxiety, and irritability during the COVID-19 pandemic.

BMC Public Health, 2024

This manuscript is coauthored by 15 young adult Patient RESearch partners (PARES) with lived and living mental health experiences and three institutional researchers across Canada involved in a patient-oriented research (POR) study called the HEARTS Study: Helping Enable Access and Remove Barriers To Support for Young Adults with Mental Health-Related Disabilities. We share our reflections, experiences, and lessons learned as we grapple with the field of POR for its lack of clarity, hierarchical structures, internalized ableism, and accessibility challenges, among others. To mitigate the difficulties of POR, we started by laying the groundwork for equality by embracing the principle of Primus Inter Pares: First Among Equals as the foundation of our approach.

BMC Health Services Research, 2024

Our previous work synthesized published studies on well-being interventions during COVID-19. As we move into a post-COVID-19 pandemic period there is a need to comprehensively review published strategies, approaches, and interventions to improve child and youth well-being beyond deleterious impacts experienced during COVID-19

Restless Development, 2024

In this year’s SOYCSR, Resourcing Youth Power to Thrive, Restless Development is working with young researchers to analyze the types of resources that enable youth civil society to thrive, identify alternative resourcing mechanisms, and explore the implications of failing to resource youth power adequately.