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ADDRESSING PERSONAL & FAMILY CRISES: Youth’s Proposed Solutions Policy & System Change • Ensure the immediate provision of services for youth seeking support for mental health and addiction issues • Reduce wait times to access in-patient addiction and mental health services for youth • Abolish policies that require parental permission for youth to access addiction or mental health services • Ensure there are robust, youth-centred after care plans for youth transitioning out of hospitals, rehabilitation centres, detox centres, and recovery houses Investments • Establish more safe injection sites across Canada, and ensure sites are youth-friendly and safe for youth • Build youth-focused detox and rehabilitation centres in all communities, particularly rural communities • Fund and expand youth housing for people recovering from addictions Interventions • Locate addiction services and supports away from locations where substance use is common (e.g. bars) • Offer programs and services in which caregivers struggling with addictions and/or mental health issues can access help without fear of criminalization or having their children removed • Increase the availability of drug management programs for caregivers • Increase the availability of programs and counselling for youth with addictions, particularly in rural and remote communities • Provide education on housing and homelessness to caregivers accessing mental health and addiction support programs • Provide peer mentorship programs for youth struggling with addiction and mental health issues WHAT WOULD IT TAKE? 110
MOVING FORWARD Youth across the country were clear: to prevent youth homelessness, we need to provide young people with mental health and addiction supports that are visible, accessible, immediate, and free before they become homeless, as well as during and after. Further, it is essential that caregivers have safe and accessible spaces in which to address their mental health and addiction issues without fear of legal repercussions. Several youth identified that these supports would have prevented their own homelessness, particularly when combined with family mediation and income supports. When young people talked about agencies that really helped them, they also emphasized the importance of fostering a culture of acceptance, destigmatization, peer mentorship, cultural connection, and a focus on youth’s talents and goals. These findings demonstrate that mental health and addiction services need to adopt a positive youth development approach, focused on youth’s assets and skills, rather than just the challenges they face. “That’s something that I struggle with, like, how do you make it [mental illness] more acceptable? Because when I come around [agency], when I come around these places, I feel accepted. This is my tribe. I can be myself. But then outside of those doors, it’s kinda like, I don’t know how to be myself. I don’t know how to talk about this now. I have to be this strong, resilient person and that’s scary because in one instance, I know that I’m accepted and loved and whatever I go through, I know there’s going to be supports. But then when I step outside of those doors, it’s like, shit, now I’m judged, and I can’t talk about it, and I’m silenced.” ST. JOHN’S YOUTH WHAT WOULD IT TAKE? 111
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WHAT WOULD IT TAKE? Youth Across Ca
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This research was made possible thr
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Are we making sig
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YOUTH’S PERSPECTIVES ON PREVENTIO
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Youth’s Proposed Solutions • In
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• Lack of education for youth on
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“My trauma led me down a wrong pa
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5. Align ministerial, departmental,
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INTEGRATED GOVERNMENT SUPPORTS 1. W
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INTRODUCTION Youth homelessness in
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Systems change is difficult work. T
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Finally, youth homelessness prevent
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CONSULTATION PROCESS National consu
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Prior to beginning the study, resea
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62 % Self-identified as currently e
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WHAT IS YOUTH HOMELESSNESS PREVENTI
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YOUTH’S PERSPECTIVES ON PREVENTIO
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WHAT WOULD IT TAKE? 1. STRUCTURAL P
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“I think that affordable housing
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LOW SOCIAL ASSISTANCE RATES Many yo
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LOW WAGES & TIGHT JOB MARKETS In th
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MOVING FORWARD To ensure better out
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1.2 LACK OF HOUSING While youth vie
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Public Housing Challenges The lack
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MOVING FORWARD The solutions propos
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“Well, for me, like, because of r
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MOVING FORWARD Indigenous youth vie
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“I have friends that are in foste
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MOVING FORWARD While youth describe
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Page 75 and 76: Experiences in Foster Care Many you
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Page 81 and 82: 2.3 HEALTHCARE & ADDICTIONS For you
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Page 115 and 116: “I’m just trying to say that, i
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Page 119 and 120: YOUTH’S MESSAGES TO ALL LEVELS OF
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