Brings forward best practices for engaging youth and building effective youth-adult partnerships. It looks at ways to support young people as decision makers, provides organizational-assessment tools, and outlines the concrete steps needed to initiate and sustain meaningful youth involvement.

The study presents new analyses of the latest research, surveys and policy initiatives across Canada related to mental health and criminal behaviour among youth and adults.

The Plan supports the Health Action Plan by providing direction and funding over the next three years for strategies to improve access to mental health services for infants, children, youth and their families. The Children’s Mental Health Plan also aligns with the Health Action Plan by addressing the needs of children and youth at risk, which contributes to healthy and safe communities.

Cette publication regroupe de l’information et des analyses de données se rapportant à la façon dont nous définissons et mesurons la bonne santé mentale, à son rôle sur la santé, aux facteurs associés à des résultats élevés au chapitre de la santé mentale positive et aux stratégies qui contribuent, ou qui pourraient contribuer, à favoriser la santé mentale de la population.

This publication brings together available information and data analyses that look at one way of defining positive mental health, how we currently measure it, its role in health, the factors associated with high levels of positive mental health and what strategies are, or may be, effective at promoting mental health at a population level.

L’Initiative sur la santé de la population canadienne (ISPC), un volet de l’Institut canadien d’information sur la santé (ICIS), a tenu un atelier sur invitation afin d’examiner de plus près les liens qui existent entre la santé mentale, la délinquance et l’activité criminelle. L’atelier visait principalement à favoriser et à promouvoir la collaboration intersectorielle et l’échange des connaissances afin d’améliorer la santé mentale des Canadiens, plus particulièrement des personnes qui ont ou qui risquent d’avoir des démêlés avec le système de justice pénale.

The well-being of children is high on the policy agenda across the OECD. But what is the actual state of child well-being today? How much are governments spending on children and are they spending it at the right times? What social and family policies have the most impact during children’s earliest years? Is growing up in a single-parent household detrimental to children? Is inequality that persists across generations a threat to child well-being? Doing Better for Children addresses these questions and more.