One Youth | UNICEF Canada: For Every Child

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

An Open Letter to Canada from Your Youth

Dear Canada, we’re the future, correct? Well then, and perhaps this may come as a surprise to you, but your future’s well-being is far from what it needs to be. Canada, are you surprised? So are we. We’re surprised when we hear of another 17-year-old who has committed suicide because of the lack of funding for mental health services.

Help us Imagine the Future for Canada’s Kids

UNICEF Canada is working to make Canada #1 in child well-being by 2030, and we need your help.

Picky Eaters vs. Hungry Bellies

Many kids in Canada are picky eaters. Many more don't have the access to food to even be considered that.

Back-to-school: A time to face the facts about Canada’s kids

With summer vacation nearly over, thousands of children across the country will soon be heading back to school.

Youth are what they eat (or don’t eat) at school

This is the first in a series of youth guest blogs providing a diversity of perspectives from Canada’s young people in support of UNICEF Canada’s One Youth movement.

My cat makes me happy: What Canada’s youth told us about their well-being

A new UNICEF Canada report released today highlights what Canada’s youth consider critical to their well-being. Among the insights, holistic health and a sense of belonging top the list.

Measuring child well-being in disruptive times

We live in disruptive times. The conditions in which children are growing up are changing quickly, evolving into futures that are difficult to imagine. What does this mean for how we measure their well-being? Ultimately, the discussions revolve around three fundamental questions in the data chain.

Teens Talk, but is Canada Listening?

I wasn’t sure where to start this blog post, whether it be with a personal story of my own suicide attempts or if I should jump into the threatening statistics of teen suicide and how unrighteously they are disregarded.

I am a Person, Not an Illness

In response to UNICEF Report Card 14, which ranks Canada 25 out of 41 rich countries in child well-being, Canadian youth are speaking out about the issues that matter to them

Bullying - Record It. Report It. Don’t Support It.

What do you think about when you hear the word “bullying”? I think that many people probably find themselves imagining a classic school scenario, where you’re being beat up for lunch money, the jock of the school threatening you with a defiant punch in the face and maybe a scared group of kids slyly turning their backs off to the side. We are educated in schools about what it means to be a bully, and how to react as a bystander (don’t stand by), but do people know about the effects of bullying and the subconscious actions which sometimes hurt even more?

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