One Youth | UNICEF Canada: For Every Child

Learn more about UNICEF’s work under the topic "One Youth".

New survey measuring child and youth well-being launches in communities

UNICEF Canada, the Canadian Index of Wellbeing, the Ontario Trillium Foundation and Medavie Health Foundation are partnering with four communities to launch the Community Child and Youth Well-being Survey to get a snapshot of the lives of young people.

Federal budget: UNICEF Canada welcomes new funding for child care

Statement by UNICEF Canada on Budget 2021

Youth activists take over the future at largest National Child Day event in Canada

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, actor Finn Wolfhard send special messages to UNICEF Canada’s Youth Activism Summit

UNICEF Canada responds to the final report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

UNICEF Canada issues statement on the final report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.

UNICEF Canada supports cross-party call for federal Commissioner for Children and Youth

UNICEF Canada welcomes discussions on the best way forward for the establishment of a federal Commissioner for Children and Youth following the introduction of Bill C-451 An Act to Establish a Children's Health Commissioner of Canada.

UNICEF Canada supports calls for a National School Food Program

UNICEF Canada is encouraged by the momentum toward the establishment of a national school food program, and endorses Bill C-446, An Act to Develop a National School Food Program for Children, tabled today by MP Don Davies (Member for Vancouver Kingsway)

Two-thirds of children and youth in Canada feel like they don’t belong

A sense of isolation can lead to mental health issues, teen suicide, trouble with the law, poor school performance and homelessness, warns UNICEF’s One Youth initiative

Pilot project aims to improve well-being of children and youth in Waterloo Region

Kitchener Waterloo Community Foundation, Overlap Associates and UNICEF Canada partner to launch the Waterloo Region One Youth Fund

Canada’s children are lagging in pre-primary education, with nearly half aged 2 to 4 missing out

UNICEF’s first-ever global report dedicated to early childhood education highlights a lack of investment in pre-primary education by the majority of governments worldwide

Federal budget offers promising new investments in children in Canada and around the world

The federal government’s latest budget includes welcome new investments in children and youth, said UNICEF Canada’s One Youth. Important funding is promised to First Nations, Métis and Inuit children to help close gaps in basic services and a renewed focus on child and youth mental health. New initiatives also include making post-secondary education more accessible, environmental initiatives to improve air quality and programs to make housing and medication more affordable.

Tags: One Youth

Share This: