YMHC Charitable Foundation
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Mission Statement
Youth Mental Health Canada (YMHC) is a national network transforming mental health and suicide prevention through evidence, strength, and hope-based educational resources, initiatives, and training. As a registered community-based, youth-driven, and educator-led charitable nonprofit organization, YMHC's mission is to ensure all students, families, educators, and mental health professionals in Canada have proactive resources for mental health and wellness, to normalize conversation on mental health, reduce suicide risk factors, and increase mental wellness protective factors. YMHC approaches mental health issues from an intersectional, social justice, and equity perspective, focusing on youth, family, school, and community engagement for mental health education, support, advocacy, and systemic change.
About This Cause
Youth Mental Health Canada (YMHC Charitable Foundation) is a national network transforming mental health and suicide prevention through evidence, strength, and hope-based educational resources, initiatives, services, workshops, and training. As a registered community-based, youth-driven, and educator-led charitable non-profit organization, our focus is on youth, family, school, and community engagement for mental health education, support, advocacy, and change.. Our organization has an eleven-year track record of values-driven work, contributing to provincial and national change in education and support for students with mental health challenges and disabilities. This Impact Report illustrates YMHC’s commitment to meeting the challenges of education, health, and life by offering essential, accessible, and meaningful resources to support the most important role of all—encouraging the healthy growth of young people. We have actively participated in efforts to decrease suicide risk factors, a cause of utmost importance given the suicide rate among youth and young adults aged 10 to 34 in Canada, the third highest youth suicide rate in the industrialized world. For over 11 years, YMHC has been a force for change that has dramatically changed the conversation and educational policies on youth mental health through education on issues impacting young people. YMHC approaches mental health and wellness issues from an intersectional, social justice, and equity perspective. Our commitment to human rights issues for all people is evident in our work in the past eleven years.