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Factors that impact how Black youth access the mental healthcare system in Ontario

Factors that impact how Black youth access the mental healthcare system in Ontario

Tiyondah Fante-Coleman, MA, Melissa Booker, MHE, Ameerah Craigg, BA, BEd, Deneece Plummer, BSW & Fatimah Jackson-Best, PhD |

Pathways to Care is a community-driven project committed to transforming the mental healthcare system for Black children, youth, and their families. Their latest report details perspectives from participants about barriers to accessing mental healthcare for Black youth and multiple levels of the system and centres the perspectives of Black youth and the people who care […]

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Acknowledgement of Traditional Land

We wish to acknowledge this land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. For thousands of years, it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.

Revised by the Ceremonial Committee at the University of Toronto Office of Indigenous Initiatives in April 2021.