Youth Mental Health
Liberal
Introduce a new fund for student well-being to improve wait times and increase access to mental health care at colleges and universities. The fund will support the hiring of up to 1200 new mental health care counsellors, including those who can support the needs of BIPOC students, at post secondary institutions across Canada. We will invest $500 million over four years and dedicate 10% annually to support Indigenous-governed and operated post-secondary institutions.
— Forward. For Everyone., retrieved 2021-09-02
Green
- Provide specific funding for early mental health interventions.
- Launch a targeted strategy to ensure timely access to mental health services for young people & children.
- Provide funding for prevention, treatment, & research related to youth mental health.
- Call for a national study on the impact of phones & social media on mental health in adolescents.
● Provide specific funding for early mental health interventions, including social and emotional learning programs, quality and accessible early childhood education, access to community-based mental health services for parents and caregivers, youth peer support programs, mobile youth mental health clinics, etc.
● Launch a targeted strategy aimed at ensuring timely access to mental health services for young people and children
● Provide funding for prevention, treatment, and research related to youth mental health, to address the growing crisis of mental health issues among young people.
● Call for a national study on the impact of phones and social media on mental health in adolescents.
— Be Daring., retreived 2021-09-11