Mental Health Care for Homeless Youth: A Proposal for Federal, Provincial, and Territorial Leadership, Coordination, and Targeted Investment - Executive Summary
dc.contributor.author | Schwan, Kaitlin | |
dc.contributor.author | Kidd, Sean | |
dc.contributor.author | Gaetz, Stephen | |
dc.contributor.author | O'Grady, Bill | |
dc.contributor.author | Redman, Melanie | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-07-17T22:11:55Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-07-17T22:11:55Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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 | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | This executive summary is based on Without a Home: The National Youth Homelessness Survey, a research study made possible through the generous support of the Home Depot Canada Foundation. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | 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. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10315/41254 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Canadian Observatory on Homelessness Press | en_US |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | * |
dc.title | Mental Health Care for Homeless Youth: A Proposal for Federal, Provincial, and Territorial Leadership, Coordination, and Targeted Investment - Executive Summary | en_US |
dc.type | Report | en_US |
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