Medications for Child and Youth Mental Health – Information for those taking or giving mental health medications
This tool, developed in partnership with the Centre, provides youth, parents/caregivers, teachers, residential service providers and others with essential information about medications for child and youth mental health. The booklet answers such questions as how to tell if a medication is working, what to ask health care professionals, and how to get more information about medications. Complementary tools include ongoing management decision-making and information sharing devices about medications for child and youth mental health.
Project ongoing

Project Postcard
Project Postcard is an art based mental health awareness and stigma prevention program for Grade 7 students. The Centre, the Canadian Mental Health Association and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health have partnered to develop a pilot in the Ottawa area. Participants learn about mental health, mental illness and stigma before working in small groups to create artwork that reflects their visions of mental health. The artwork is transformed into postcards and distributed to all other participants as well as to mental health professionals, media and policy makers. For more information, contact onthepoint@cheo.on.ca.
Project in development

Transcending the Stigma Surrounding Mental Health Difficulties: An International Research Collaboration to Empower Children and Youth
The Centre is host and organizer of a two-and one-half day workshop during which experts from Ontario as well as Canada and the larger international community will form a working group to plan the implementation of a research program designed to identify school-based interventions for children and youth, that consistently and effectively prevent or reduce the stigma surrounding mental health difficulties. The workshop will bring together researchers, educators, mental health professionals, child development experts, mental health advocates, and youth. The working group will address key issues and recommendations that were identified by the Centre’s recently completed systematic review of the scientific evidence concerning school-based stigma-related interventions for children and youth. Sponsorship for this event has been received from the Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development, the Early Childhood Learning Knowledge Centre, Canadian Council on Learning, and the Provincial Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health.
Project ongoing

YooMagazine – A Health Literacy Program
YooMagazine is a health literacy and early identification program that takes the form of an interactive on-line health magazine, designed to provide young people and schools access to mental health resources and to provide schools the means of monitoring health and mental health behaviours in their student populations. Each month, the website features a key health issue through combinations of static, interactive and narrative formats. For more information, contact Dr. Darcy Santor.
Project ongoing

Youth Science & Technology Outreach Program (YSTOP)
The Youth Science & Technology Outreach Program (YSTOP) will develop an outreach curriculum to engage at-risk youth both locally and in rural, under-serviced communities in mental health research initiatives. It will achieve this through a series of hands-on laboratory experiences, workshops, lectures, information sessions, summer camps, co-op placements and public forums. Interested high school-aged youth in local and more rural communities will learn about (a) the way in which mental health research is conducted, and (b) the various research-oriented professions in the health and social sciences. For more information about this program, contact onthepoint@cheo.on.ca.
Project ongoing

Youth Engagement for Mental Health
The Centre is partnering with Children’s Mental Health Ontario to pilot a collaborative youth engagement project to develop a focused network comprising a broad cross section of youth. The goal is to facilitate a youth driven, adult supervised, youth voiced approach to issues pertaining to child and youth mental health. The network will give youth the opportunity to play a meaningful, ongoing and sustainable role in promoting mental health and advocating for a system that best meets their mental health needs. For more information, contact onthepoint@cheo.on.ca.
Project in development