HRI Talks - Youth Mental Health: Challenges and Hope for the Future
Event date: -
Event type: Single day (a day or less)
Event information:
March 19, 2025
7:00 - 8:00 PM EST on Zoom
Click here to register
This free public event welcomes everyone to join. The program includes a moderated discussion followed by a live Q&A with the audience. A recording will be shared with registrants after the event.
Description:
How can we better support youth and young adult’s mental health? With rising rates of anxiety, depression, and substance use, understanding the challenges young people face—and the solutions that can help—is more important than ever.
Youth mental health is at a crossroads. More young people than ever are struggling, yet barriers to care persist. This session brings together top researchers, clinicians, and youth to examine the latest data, key risk factors, and opportunities for change.
Objectives:
What You’ll Learn:
• The latest trends in youth and young adult mental health and substance use health
• How trauma, social environment, and access to care shape mental health outcomes
• Promising strategies for early intervention, youth-informed planning and policy, and community support
Featuring:
Senator Stan Kutcher was formally the Sun Life Financial Chair in Adolescent Mental Health and former director World Health Organization Collaborating Centre in Mental Health Policy and Training at Dalhousie University and IWK Health Centre in Canada. Dr. Kutcher was appointed to the Senate in 2019.
Dr. Jillian Halladay is a Registered Nurse, Clinical Epidemiologist (MSc, PhD), and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at McMaster University. Dr. Halladay currently holds a Health System Impact Embedded Early Career Researcher Award co-funded by the Canadian Institute of Health Research, McMaster University, and St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton.
Denzel Innis is a member of the Peter Boris Centre for Addictions Research Young Adults Advisory Board. He has lived experience in dealing with the mental healthcare system in Ontario. He hopes to eventually work in the mental health field.
Moderator:
Garvia Bailey
Journalist and Co-Founder, Media Girlfriends
HRI Talks would like to thank our sponsors: CIBC, the Otsuka-Lundbeck Alliance and KPMG.