Welcome to Mobilizing Minds: Pathways to Young Adult Mental Health, a multi-year, multi-province knowledge mobilization research project that focuses on young adult mental health. Our team includes young adults, researchers, health professionals, youth engagement experts

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Project Lead Message

Health is one of the most important sources of security in life, affecting our ability to care for ourselves, our family and home, and our work.  Among young adults the most common health problems are those affecting mental health: anxiety and depression. Young adults who face problems with stress, anxiety and depression are met

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Meet our Young Adult Team and learn more about the project

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Mobilizing Minds’ Young Adult Team includes young adult members from all over Canada. Young adult team members include both mental health consumers and supporters. The Young Adult Team’s main role is to guide and inform Read more...

Project Activity

  • Phase 1: Listening to Young Adults

    At the start of the project we reached out to young adults through surveys, interviews and focus groups to find out what they would want to know if they were experiencing a problem with stress, anxiety or depression. This work has involved young adults from the community at large, from colleges and universities, and those in the community who are experiencing or have experienced significant emotional distress or difficulties.

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  • Phase 2: Locating the information young adults want

    Through Phase 1 we were able to speak to many young adults about what information they wanted to know about mental health concerns like stress, anxiety and depression. After listening to young adults, we used the methods of knowledge synthesis to locate scientific information required to answer questions identified by young adults as being important.

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  • Phase 3: Developing youth-friendly resources

    We are currently in Phase 3 of Mobilizing Minds. In Phase 3 we are taking the information from the summaries we created in Phase 2 and are developing youth-friendly information resources for young adults.

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  • Phase 4: Evaluating our resources

    As we complete the resources in different formats, we are connecting with young adults, their supporters and professionals who serve them to tell us what they think about the resources.

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  • Phase 5: Sharing our Resources

    In Phase 5, with the help of community stakeholders and partners, we will share and disseminate resources for young adults in a variety of formats across Canada in both official languages. We will use the help of organizations and professionals who serve young adults.

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