{"id":49349,"date":"2025-01-09T01:01:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T01:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edts.phil-lab.ca\/?page_id=49349"},"modified":"2025-02-03T19:13:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T19:13:48","slug":"qa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/smjaction.ca\/en\/qa\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&A"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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What do we mean by youth mental health? <\/div><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/summary>\n\t\t\t\t
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Mental health is a broad term that refers to the ability to enjoy life and face challenges. It includes emotional wellbeing, spiritual wellbeing, and strong, healthy social connections. Some factors that promote mental health in youth are relationships with others, self-care, helpful strategies to cope with challenges, positive family connections, and the capacity to participate and be creative, including in atypical and non-normative ways. Some factors that interfere with mental health in youth are social and economic inequalities, personal challenges, feeling a lack of freedom or independence, and family disconnection (Arsenault, 2018; Furtos, 2006; Dorvil, 2007).<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/details>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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What are child welfare services or youth protection? <\/div><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/summary>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYouth protection services are governmental or private services that provide children and youth in situations of neglect and\/or abuse with support. These services include social services, foster care, group home care, residential care, and adoption services. Youth protection services also provide support to parents or guardians who have difficulty caring for their children. (Albert, 2006; Fuller-Thompson, 2002) <\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/details>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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What are service standards? <\/div><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/summary>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tService standards are the methods and protocols put in place to provide a service. In terms of youth mental health, service standards are currently unclear, particularly within youth protection services.<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/details>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Youth Criminal Justice Act <\/div><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/summary>\n\t\t\t\t
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The youth criminal justice act is a law that supports the role of different stakeholders acting in the youth criminal justice system. This law includes many principles but has a focus of crime prevention, reintegration, and readaptation in society, and accountability of youth in the system. (\u201cYouth Criminal Justice Act\u201d, Government of Canada. \u201cL’application de la Loi sur le syst\u00e8me de justice p\u00e9nale pour les adolescents\u201d, Minist\u00e8re de la Sant\u00e9 et des services sociaux du Qu\u00e9bec. \u201cJustice pour adolescents\u201d, Justice alternative du haut Richelieu)<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/details>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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What are our approaches? <\/div><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/summary>\n\t\t\t\t
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We used a few theories from academic literature to help guide us. These include:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Child rights
<\/i><\/strong>For many years now, the United Nations (UN) has been concerned with the rights of young people as well as adults. With this in mind, the UN has adopted a Convention on the Rights of the Child, which emphasizes the responsibility of the State to protect minors (up to the age of 18) and to ensure their well-being in all aspects of their lives. The child’s best interests must take priority in all measures concerning him or her.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Intersectionality
<\/i><\/strong>This term is used to think about and understand how various aspects of individual identity – including race, gender, class, and sexuality – interact to create unique experiences of privilege or oppression.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Resilient organizations<\/strong>
<\/span><\/i>Offers a flexible conceptual framework for a systemic, interdependent, and interactional understanding of how people and organizations function, and positively adapt, in the face of adversity or perturbation. It guides our research by asking how do our mental health and child services systems adapt? How do the organizations, and the people within them, overcome adversity?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

What is mental health recovery?<\/em>
<\/strong>Generally, mental health recovery emphasizes the importance of diverse person-focused, community-based, and strength-based approaches to attend to the unicity of individual experiences. Core components of a successful recovery-oriented mental health care service include fostering participation, offering hope, engaging in holistic approaches and personalized interventions, emphasizing mutual aid and peer support, increasing choice, and promoting active citizenship.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/details>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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