SICKKIDS CENTRE FOR COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH

We are a group of child and youth mental health advocates who represent communities across Canada. Our team includes mental health professionals, psychologists, early childhood professionals, frontline workers, adult educators, and academics and researchers. We work with families living in remote, rural, and inner-city areas... During the past several years, we built strong collaborative relationships with community partners who support and celebrate parenting and caregiving practices of families. Over 80% of these families live in communities that share the common features of low socio-economic status, but differ in terms of geography (i.e., hard-to-reach, rural, inner-city), population (e.g., new immigrants/refugees, on- and off- reserve Indigenous People, Caucasians, incarcerated individuals, victims/survivors of domestic violence), and family stressors (e.g., intergenerational or developmental trauma, single parenthood, teenage parenthood). Thanks to our champion partners, the..