Phase 2 MHP-IF Projects

The HORS-PISTE program aims to enable students to better deal with developmental challenges in order to prevent the appearance of symptoms related to anxiety disorders and to other adjustment disorders.

Nurturing the Seed is a strength-based health intervention model designed for Indigenous children (birth to six) that focuses on the promotion of infant and early mental health (IEMH).

This youth-led initiative aims to facilitate youth aged 14-28 to inspire, guide and support their communities to build a culture where young people with experience of marginalization are seen, heard, included, and celebrated.

The Inuusirvik Community Wellness Hub is a family-centered, community-led, social enterprise model to provide evidence-based wellness programming and services for Inuit children, youth, and families in Nunavut.

This is a youth-focused, youth-led community initiative in the Pas, Manitoba. Youth engage in pro-social activities, provide positive mentorship, develop healthy attachments to their communities, and learn to establish and make progress toward self-identified and personal goals.

This intervention uses the arts to focus on cultural identity and developing coping skills, social and emotional skills, and prosocial behaviours, while processing trauma for Northern youth aged 13-17.

This project is a youth-oriented brokering intervention that targets cultural minority youth (aged 13-19) in Eritrean/Ethiopian, Oromo, Syrian, and Somali communities in Edmonton, Alberta.

The Right To Food project is co-developing, implementing, testing, and evaluating a community-based program that builds protective factors for mental health in youth (aged 13-19) experiencing food insecurity—including Indigenous, newcomer, and low-income communities.

This youth engagement and capacity building intervention is comprised of a series of Collaborative Policymaking Workshops and emerging activities designed to promote skills-building and collective action for youth mental health.

This project examines the effect of promising strategies and joint effort between early years professionals, community stakeholders, and the parents of children aged 2 to 12, that aims to promote the healthy development of children through free and adventurous play.

STRONG is a small group intervention developed to promote resilience and reduce psychological distress among newcomer students, aiming to promote individual strengths, build skills to make positive choices, and provide a sense of self and belonging.

This project provides training to community-based practitioners to deliver a trauma informed and attachment focused group-based intervention to foster and kinship parents in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and Quebec.