Aim Youth mental health is of paramount significance to society globally. Given early onset
of mental disorders and the inadequate access to appropriate services, a meaningful service …

Indigenous youth continue to live with a socioeconomic and political legacy of colonization
and marginalization, confronted by environments harmful to their psychosocial development. …

Aim ACCESS Open Minds (ACCESS OM) is a pan‐Canadian project aimed at improving
youth mental healthcare. This paper describes implementation of the ACCESS OM objectives …

Objectives: The aim was to understand how youth from 4 First Nation communities express
pain using narratives and art-based methods to inform culturally appropriate assessment and …

Background Many Canadian adolescents and young adults with mental health problems
face delayed detection, long waiting lists, poorly accessible services, care of inconsistent …

Pain is a universal experience all humans share but can be unique in how it is expressed.
The pain experience is influenced by several dynamic factors, including family, community …

Despite the challenges facing Indigenous youth and their communities due to historical and
contemporary institutionalised racism in Canada, communities are drawing on the richness …

Background First Nation children have the highest rates of pain-related conditions among
Canadian children, yet there is little research on how this population expresses its pain or how …

Objective In many Indigenous communities, youth mental health services are inadequate.
Six Indigenous communities participating in the ACCESS Open Minds (AOM) network …

This chapter explores the use of community development (CD) by service providers as a
means of responding to the concerns, and extending limited or restricted formal service …