Agenda Gap: Youth-led policy advocacy to promote adolescent mental health and advance health equity across socioecological domains
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. Youth (aged 15-25) who experience intersecting health and social inequities (youth who have experience with mental health services, live in poverty, are in the care of the child welfare system, or who are Indigenous, newcomer/immigrants, and/or LGBTQ2+) are engaged as collaborators in capacity building and policymaking activities. Youth gain mental health promotion knowledge and skills, and are enabled to identify factors in their communities that impact youth mental health, develop strategies and action plans, and engage stakeholders in collaborative policymaking processes to promote youth mental health.
Lead organization: School of Nursing, University of British Columbia
Location: British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Nova Scotia
Looking to get in touch with this project? Send an email to the Agenda Gap team (agenda.gap@ubc.ca) for more information.