Grantee Story
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Building a Talent Pathway for Community-based, Youth-focused Care
Long before a struggling young person decides to reach out for help, they must overcome many barriers: stigma, gender and cultural taboos, and limited awareness around how to get help. Across Canada and globally, the Integrated Youth Services model brings together a range of services, spanning from mental health and…
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What Happens When You Take Young Canadians to Parliament
Growing up in Yellowknife, 16-year-old Élise Auld never imagined that one day she would find herself in the Senate Chamber of the Parliament of Canada, delivering statements, discussing bills, and proposing amendments. “You learn about politics in school, and you think it’s so much bigger than you are. But then,…
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Making Rural Communities Visible Through Data
For Dr. Leith Deacon, improving rural well-being starts with asking the right questions. Data collection systems largely geared towards urban populations miss the unique challenges and needs of rural communities, which remain underrepresented within them. “As a result, rural communities can become statistically invisible. When the data isn’t there, it’s…
