Heartfelt congratulations to Brenda Reynolds, the first Canadian to be awarded the United Nations Nelson Mandela Prize! Her lifelong commitment to Indigenous health, rights, and trauma-informed care powerfully reflects Mandela's enduring legacy of justice and humanity. 🇨🇦🇺🇳
Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems model adapted for Black youth development and attachment processes in context (Stern et al., 2021). thank you for letting me draw this @JessAStern !
We are going into a long weekend with a bed capacity crisis where 60% of my patients have no where to go. I can’t care for anyone else because there is no space. We need to do better, but this requires government silos to work together.
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Time and time again I see struggling families where all the Ministry will offer is placing their kids in care when often all they need are more modest interventions like childcare, respite, or in-home parenting help. This is better for kids and more cost effective for taxpayers.
If you’re wondering why there’s no child psychiatry beds in Saskatchewan, consider these fun facts:
There’s 33% fewer beds in the province than in 2020.
Of the beds we have, 40% are filled with kids who don’t need to be there but are waiting for Social Services to find a home.
Register to join youth & adults working in partnership to share the latest info on prevention, health promotion, & youth engagement to inform policy & practice https://t.co/ei2NWVc4lf
.@DrHeatherLRamey#FOSS@BrockUCHYS Associate Prof led a study where children/youth from 🇨🇦 weighed in on their experiences of COVID. The work connects to a larger @UNICEFInnocenti project, comparing the pandemic’s impact in various countries around the 🌏 https://t.co/GYBCBdlTtD
Nurses, physicians and allied healthcare professionals:
Please tell me in which circumstance that yelling at your patients is EVER acceptable. I’d love to hear some takes on this.