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Terrilee Kelford, a registered psychotherapist in Carleton Place who sees many teenage clients, says the $500-million youth mental health fund promised by the federal government with the intention to help community health organizations provide more mental health care to young people is welcomed.
The Cities for Youth conference, to be held in Reykjavik, Iceland, is set to discuss methods for the prevention of substance abuse. The conference was organised following the announcement that the usage of substances amongst adolescents in Iceland was recorded as the lowest in Europe during 2013.
The Porcupine Health Unit in Timmins, Ont., is looking to Iceland for ways to reduce substance use among young people.
Uniindia: Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 13 (UNI) The increasing relevance of the successful Icelandic Model (IM) intervention in bringing teenagers affected by drug use disorders back to normal life through alternative pursuits programmes will be a key topic of deliberations at the three-day International Forum on ‘Right to Drug-free Childhood’.
Iceland has been ranked amongst the lowest adolescent consumers of alcohol in Europe, according to studies.