Three years into the pandemic, many Canadian teens are still struggling with their mental health, and pediatric centres are reporting increases in hospitalizations and emergency room visits for conditions such as eating disorders, anxiety and suicide attempts.
/CNW/ - Working with Toronto-based ROUND agency, BGC Canada (formerly Boys & Girls Clubs of Canada) today released a new campaign that showcases the confidence.
Valentina Shamoun was having a hard time adjusting to life in Canada after her family moved here eight years ago to avoid escalating civil strife back home in Syria. I didn t have anything to do after school,” she said. “Everybody had their volleyball teams and their soccer teams and their guitar lessons, and I didn t really have the financial ability to have these after-school extracurricular things.
The now 18-year-old mentioned her frustrations to a friend involved in the after-school program at their local Boys and Girls Club (since rebranded as BGC Canada) in Scarborough and that took me on a whole journey to where I am today, she said in an interview.