Mental Health Care for Homeless Youth: A Proposal for Federal, Provincial, and Territorial Leadership, Coordination, and Targeted Investment - Executive Summary

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2017

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Schwan, Kaitlin
Kidd, Sean
Gaetz, Stephen
O'Grady, Bill
Redman, Melanie

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Canadian Observatory on Homelessness Press

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With the release of Without a Home: The National Youth Homelessness Survey (2016), we now have national data on youth homelessness for the first time in Canada. The mental health findings of this report are startling:

  • 85.4% of homeless youth were experiencing a mental health crisis
  • 42% of homeless youth reported at least one suicide attempt
  • 35.2% of homeless youth reported having at least one drug overdose requiring hospitalization

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Schwan, K., Kidd, S., Gaetz, S., O’Grady, B., & Redman, M. (2017). Mental Health Care for Homeless Youth: A Proposal for Federal, Provincial, and Territorial Leadership, Coordination, and Targeted Investment - Executive Summary. Toronto: Canadian Observatory on Homelessness Press.