A narrative review of mental health services for Indigenous youth in Canada: Intersectionality and cultural safety as a pathway for change

N Weerasinghe, AL Wright… - Journal of Recovery …, 2023 - jps.library.utoronto.ca
Objectives: Indigenous youth who identify themselves as First Nations, Métis or Inuit living in
Canada between the ages of 12-25 experience higher rates of depression and suicide than …

Three Steps Forward: The quest to develop a culturally informed mental health outreach framework for engaging indigenous children, young people and families …

K Leaver, T Spall, M Hoyland… - … Journal of Integrated …, 2018 - search.ebscohost.com
Introduction: Almost forty percent of all Indigenous Queenslanders are younger than fifteen
years of age. It is well known that Indigenous children and young people experience higher …

[HTML][HTML] An environmental scan of mental health services for indigenous youth in Canada

SH Perez, I Kakish, G Brass, K MacDonald… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background There is an urgent need for culturally and contextually relevant mental health
support for First Nations, Inuit and Métis youth. Objective Our aim was to identify mental …

Protective and resilience factors to promote mental health among Indigenous youth in Canada: a scoping review protocol

L Carrier, HD Shin, MA Rothfus, JA Curran - BMJ open, 2022 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Introduction Many mental health concerns emerge in adolescence and young adulthood,
making this a critical period to initiate early interventions for mental health promotion and …

A scoping review of evaluated Indigenous community-based mental wellness initiatives

J Venugopal, MEM Ninomiya, NTG Green… - Rural and remote …, 2021 - search.informit.org
Introduction: Many Indigenous peoples around the world are disproportionately affected by
mental health challenges, due to intergenerational and collective trauma stemming from …

Demographic and clinical presentations of youth using enhanced mental health services in six indigenous communities from the ACCESS open minds network

P Boksa, D Hutt-MacLeod, L Clair… - The Canadian …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective In many Indigenous communities, youth mental health services are inadequate.
Six Indigenous communities participating in the ACCESS Open Minds (AOM) network …

Mental health care for Indigenous young people: moving culture from the margins to the centre

A Vance, J McGaw, J Winther, M Rayner… - Australasian …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: Recently, Indigenous academics have evolved an Indigenist discourse that
centralises Indigenous 'ways of knowing, being and doing'. Through this dialogue …

Mental health implementation research in Indigenous communities: creating culturally safe space to enhance collective strengths

NA D'souza, M Field, T Supino… - AlterNative: An …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, we discuss the construct of cultural safety in relation to the ethics, politics, and
practice of implementation research in Indigenous communities. We convened a 3-day …

“Our spirit is like a fire”: Conceptualizing intersections of mental health, wellness, and spirituality with Indigenous youth leaders across Canada

J Ansloos, E Dent - Journal of Indigenous Social …, 2021 - journalhosting.ucalgary.ca
Indigenous youth in Canada experience adverse health outcomes at disproportionate rates
to their non-Indigenous peers. The impacts of colonial efforts maintain the dispossession of …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying priorities, directions and a vision for Indigenous mental health using a collaborative and consensus-based facilitation approach

S Montesanti, K Fitzpatrick, B Fayant… - BMC health services …, 2022 - Springer
Background Mental health disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in
Canada are related to underlying economic, social, and political inequities that are legacies …