Youth on Mental Health Policy Unit Takeaways Recognize how children and youth are characterized within Canadian mental health policy. Consider the implications of how children and youth are represented in policy, and how their agency and inclusion offer new interpretations. Reflect on the gap that racialized youth see between how people who create mental health …
Letters to Professionals Unit Takeaways To explore the messages that youth have for mental health professionals about what helps and what hinders their wellbeing. To consider the ways young people experience their mental health in relation to what they need from professionals and professional services. To recognize microaggressions committed against children and youth because of …
Resisting Adultism in Mental Wellbeing Unit Takeaways Through an understanding of intersectionality, examine the ways discourses about “childhood” intersect with mental health discourses from the perspectives of psychiatrized youth. By looking at how youth understand mental health, and mental health issues, recognize how psychiatrized youth resist pathologization of their experiences of distress in childhood. By …
Component Exploration: Anonymous’ Art All I Want is Love by Anonymous Anonymous (he/him) – Artist’s Statement and Reflections I’m trans. BIPOC. Well, not BIPOC, Punjabi. I’m a person of colour. I’m not out to my family, I still live at home. And I guess I’m low-income marginal. I recently graduated from university. I wanted my …
Component Exploration: Maria’s Art Intimacy, a play by Maria Link to full script Maria – Artist’s Statement and Reflections “I’m driven for that which makes us uncomfortable, breaks what we know, scares us, and challenges us. I hope to dedicate my life to telling the stories of those people that do not follow a neurotypical …
Component Exploration: Estelle’s Art U n h i n g e d – a one-person play about the pandemic so far” by Estelle Foh Link to full script Estelle Foh (she/they) – Artist’s Statement and Reflections I am a 25-year-old artist from the Toronto area now. I am a writer, a director, an actor sometimes. …
Component Exploration: Wren’s Art Song Disorganized by Wren (Verse 1) Can you come over tonight? I want to hold you one more time Just don’t look into my eyes Or leave before saying goodbye I want to be good to you Not this scared mess I know I don’t feel right But I don’t feel …
Component Exploration: Z.D.’s Art Study with Me with ADHD by Z.D. Description: An exodus from the clean, clear and minimalist monopoly on your every day studyspo content. I’m happy to bring you a candid ode to maximalism and messiness. An ADHD Study/Work with Me! Come join, support, n hang out :). Expect an unapologetically messy …
Component Exploration: M.C. Cruz’s Art A Series of Paintings by M.C. Cruz M.C. Cruz (they/them) – Artist’s Statement and Reflections M.C Cruz is a child of Chilean immigrants. Born, raised and currently based in Toronto, they also lived two years in Chile and more recently completed an Artist Residency in Morocco and Spain. They attended …
Component Exploration: Reflecting on Rose’s Art It Too, Will Change by Rose Rose (they/them) – Artist’s Statement and Reflections I am a digital media artist, multiply disabled. I am Indo-Gyuanese and English descent. [An] interesting thing I’ve been doing recently is getting into film poetry, which is something I’ve wanted to do for a long …
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