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Young Adult Team

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 the Mobilizing Minds project. Young adults work in partnership with researchers and community organizations. These partnerships are evaluated each year of project. The Young Adult Team is facilitated by Mobilizing Minds’ core community partner, mindyourmind.

Within the context of the Mobilizing Minds project, young adult partners also develop youth-led mental health prevention, promotion and knowledge mobilization projects.

Meet the Team

Meagan De Jong

I am doing a masters in Counselling Psychology at the University of New Brunswick. I graduated with a BASc in Music and Psychology from the Universit

Pauline Fogarty

My employment includes working for Wesway as a Respite Worker, St. Joseph’s Health Centre as a summer Social Work Student, and Kanachihih Solve

Kristin Reynolds

I am a Research Assistant with Mobilizing Minds and I have been a member of the Young Adult Team since 2008. I am Ph.D. student in the clinical psych

Tara Syed

Mark Leonhart

I graduated from the University of Manitoba with a 4-year Honours degree in psychology. I work as a counsellor for people that have issues with alcoh

Alexandria Yaeger Tulloch

I am a graduate of the University of Manitoba. I graduated in May 2009 with my B.A. honours in Psychology. My honours thesis was based on the survey

Amanda Aziz

I am an 18 year old student who hails from London, Ontario. In my spare time, I love to read, write, talk about my love for films, music, and elephan

Alicia S. Raimundo

I am a suicide attempt survivor who is passionate about defeating stigma and encouraging help seeking behaviours :) I love trying new things, public

In Our Words

“I think of the Young Adult Team as a collective of like-minded young adults passionate about researching mental health issues in young adults in Canada, and raising awareness about the unique nature and strengths of, and challenges faced by young adults experiencing mental health issues. We are fluid, adaptive, informed, always learning, diverse, well rounded, and most of all, eager to help young adults through our research, collaboration, community partnerships, and promotion in anyway we can within the scope of the Mobilizing Minds project.”
-Mark
“I believe the Youth Adult Team to be a team of young adults who are passionate about mental health! We believe in an evidence-based approach to helping young people with mental health issues. We see a better way to transfer knowledge to young people in a way that appeals to them and integrates with their daily lives. Accepting you need help is hard enough, finding it and feeling welcome there shouldn't be even harder! We hope to make it easier for people to seek out mental health resources and supports. The YA team is constantly learning and creating new ideas to help fellow young people cope and thrive. We have the willingness to change with the times and create change too!”
-Alicia
“The ultimate way I see Mobilizing Minds impacting change is by increasing the quality of and access to mental health information for youth, and by increasing help-seeking behaviour in youth. To me, the YA team is the connection between the research and the youth who obtain the services- we are the intermediary that ensures that the final products stay true to the vision of youth engagement, is inclusive, youth-friendly and relevant.”
-Tara
“My goal for the overall project is to understand the treatment options that young people want to have, such as how they want to receive information, who they want to receive it from, when they want to receive it, and in what formats. I envision formats that are designed by information gathered from young adults that would be disseminated to young adults through knowledge mobilization.”
-Pauline
“What makes the Young Adult (YA) Team work is that we are all focused on a core goal: mental health awareness for young adults. What makes the YA team diverse is that there are many reasons why we are focused on advocating mental health; personal experience to curiosity from research are what drives us to reach this goal. Now, what makes the YA team authentic is that we stay true to our group name: we are a group of young adults giving a voice for other young adults who need one, and, well, you can't get any more authentic than that!”
-Amanda

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