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Academy School Mental Health

On July 9-11 the Sun Life Financial Chair in Adolescent Mental Health will be hosting the second annual Academy in School Mental Health.  The three day interactive workshop will provide attendees with opportunities to learn more about teen mental health. The goal is to provide educators with an arsenal of tools, information and techniques that they can use with their students, in the classroom and feel empowered to teach their students about mental health.  The Academy is hosted in Halifax, Nova Scotia.  Click here for more information.

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Adobe Youth Voices is the signature philanthropic effort of the Adobe Foundation intended to empower youth and educators through media making experiences that promote social change.  The Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards celebrates the extraordinary work of young medial artists from around the world by recognizing top talent in media production.  You can vote for your choice.

New Data Suggests One in Two of us Experience Mental Illness in our Life-Times

Interesting new research debunks the claim that one in four of us will experience a mental illness at some point in our life-times.  It's worse than that...

Mister Rogers Remixed

Garden of Your Mind - A trip down memory lane like you've never heard before!  Awesome!

A Warning to Teenagers Before They Start Dating

Over a decade ago we learned it was young people (age 16-24) that endured the highest rates of dating violences which catapulted a variety of programs in an effort to decrease the disastrous rates at which young people were experiencing intimate partner violence.  Ten years later it appears little has changed.

Now Available: Evergreen Framework: A Child and Youth Mental Health Strategy

The Evergreen Framework serves as a complement to the Mental Health Strategy for Canada.  Authored by the Mental Health Commission of Canada and The Sun Life Financial Chair in Adolescent Mental Health, the Framework is a resource for government, institutions and organizations to help develop child and youth mental health initiatives.  It can also be used by young people, parents, professionals and others to assist in their choices and priorities regarding child and youth mental health policies, plans, programs and services.

Not all Teasing is Bad

You can call some teasing starter bullying, or even bullying outright.  The teasers may laugh, or even mean very little by it, but the teased don't always see it that way.  Research shows that while teasers describe the interactions as lighthearted and fun, those teased often described the same situation as malicious and annoying.