Currently, Canada is the only G8 country without a National Mental Health Strategy.

Recently, the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) was established to develop a Mental Health Strategy for Canada. As part of the strategy the MHCC will support the development of a framework specific to the needs of child and youth mental health. The proposed framework, entitled Evergreen, will complement and provide child and youth context to the Mental Health Strategy for Canada.

Evergreen is a collaborative project that will produce a framework to help improve policy and programming related to child and adolescent mental health across Canada.The Evergreen framework will be constructed by professionals, youth, parents and members of the public from across Canada who have expertise, interest or experience with mental health and mental illness.

Please contribute your voice and ideas about child and youth mental health.

To learn more about the MHCC and to take the survey online visit http://www.mentalhealthcommission.ca/English/Pages/evergreen.aspx

To learn more about Evergreen and child and youth mental health visit

http://www.teenmentalhealth.org