National standards would help track young Canadians' mental health, experts say
OTTAWA - Concern about the mental health challenges of young Canadians has been growing during the nearly two ...
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OTTAWA - Concern about the mental health challenges of young Canadians has been growing during the nearly two ...
OTTAWA - Concern about the mental health challenges of young Canadians has been growing during the nearly two years of disruptions and repeated isolation
OTTAWA — Concern about the mental health challenges of young Canadians has been growing during the nearly two years of disruptions and repeated isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to experts, Canadians do not have the tools to properly assess the toll that the pandemic has taken on the mental health of children. Creating standards for how mental health is measured could help grasp the scale of the problem, they said.
Young Canadians reached out to Kids Help Phone about 4.6 million times in 2020, up from 1.9 million in 2019