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New program thought to be largest of its kind in Canada

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Mighty Minds shines light on girls’ mental health

TARA HATHERLY thatherly@insidetoronto.com Suicide is the second leading cause of death for Canadian youths, and girls are hospitalized for suicide attempts at almost three times the rate of boys.

It’s those stats, from the Canadian Mental Health Association and Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada, and others like them that prompted Girl Guides of Canada (GGC) to take action when girls in the organization said they didn’t feel they had somewhere to discuss and learn about mental health.

Seeing a need, GGC reached out to Kids Help Phone and The Psychology Foundation of Canada to help create a program for its members. The result is Mighty Minds, what is believed to be Canada’s largest and most comprehensive mental health education program for girls.

"We heard some pretty scary stats about the high prevalence of mental health disorders in young people, as well as the fact that a lot of mental health disorders actually start before the age of 14, and one in three girls don’t talk about it," explained GGC CEO Jill Zelmanovits. "We started to think it’s really prevalent, and it’s happening when they’re quite young, and they don’t have a space (to discuss it), so we wanted to provide that space."

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ABOVE, at the launch of the the Girl Guides of Canada’s Mighty Minds initiative Saturday at Nathan Phillips Square, girls hold up candles during the candle lighting ceremony. RIGHT, Scotlyn Gibb (left) and Victoria Vieira show off their ’girl greatness’ tattoos. years to create and is aimed at girls five through 17 years old. To launch it, candlelighting events to "shine a light on mental health" were held throughout Canada. The signature event, in Toronto at Nathan Phillips Square Saturday, Jan. 21, featured special guest Cheryl Pounder two-time Olympic gold medallist with Canada’s national women’s hockey team, youth hockey coach and mother of two girls.

"What I love about the program is that the programming is designed to be age appropriate and gives the kids exercises that they will engage in and understand," said Pounder. "It’s brought down to their level, but it gets them talking about those things at a young age.

"The hope is that being proactive, that these (activities) will provide them

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with coping and resiliency skills and confidence, so that they can conquer their challenges more readily as they grow and not be afraid to reach out when they’re experiencing emotion that they’re having difficulty in handling."

Through the program, girls learn to identify emotions and how they impact behaviour. They also learn how our choice of words impacts people’s perceptions of mental health.

"The Mighty Minds program not only addresses stigma directly, but also provides activities to help build awareness and resilience," noted Jennifer Murdoch, vice-president of counselling operations for Kids Help Phone.

"Our hopes for this program is that it will start a lifelong conversation about mental wellness that leads to a society with less

stigma around accessing help and letting others know when we’re vulnerable," Murdoch added. "Adolescence is a particularly difficult time, as it comes with a lot of changes. Ensuring that we provide the support for girls and young women is an important step in targeting the issues that aren’t always easy to talk about."

As well as members, Mighty Minds has garnered positive feedback from GGC leaders.

"The Guider feedback has been amazing," Zelmanovits shared. "They’ve said things like, ’I feel like this is something I’ve wanted to broach before, but I didn’t necessarily have the tools to do it. I knew the girls wanted to talk about it, but I didn’t necessarily feel confident as a leader and now with the Mighty Minds program I feel confi-

dent to do that.’ " The program helps girls understand differences between mental health and mental illness, while empowering them to talk about both. It doesn’t teach girls they should always feel happy, but that it’s normal to experience a range of thoughts and emotions.

’The Mighty Minds program not only addresses stigma directly, but also provides activities to help build awareness and resilience.’

-Jennifer Murdoch, Kids Help Phone "I hope girls and young women take away the message that even negative feelings are normal, and that there are healthy ways to manage them," said Dr. Robin Alter, trustee with The Psychology Foundation of Canada. "We all

have some coping abilities to deal with negative states; some of them are more constructive than others. We can all improve in our ability to manage our emotions and mental states. The Mighty Minds program will teach girls and young women some of the more healthy ways to stay mentally and emotionally fit."

The program also teaches girls how to support the mental health of others.

While it was created for GGC members, anyone can download it free from the organization’s website.

The printable program materials include a backgrounder, a list of resources, and activities categorized by age group.

"It’s interesting, because they’re not activities where you would come away and say, ’Oh, wow, I’ve just completed a program on mental health,’ " Zelmanovits said. "They’re really fun and engaging activities that brings it into the girls’ language and experience . and what they come out with is quite amazing."

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Provincial politics-as-usual scupper a good toll policy Cowardice.

That’s the only word to describe Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne’s about-face last week, scuttling Toronto Council’s plan to charge a toll to drive the Don Valley Parkway and the Gardiner Expressway.

The road tolling plan hatched by Mayor John Tory and supported by Toronto Council might not have been a perfect solution to Toronto’s financial woes - even at $300 million a year once fully in place, it wouldn’t pay for the long-term infrastructure needs of the city - but it was a giant step. Dare we say it, approving tolls was a rare courageous move on the part of a city council that has been perennially averse to approving adequate taxation levels.

For some time, it seemed as though the Wynne Liberal government was on-side with the city, and prepared to grant the necessary approval, one mature level of government to another.

But last Friday, the premier changed her tune, and at a news event a safe distance up the highway in Richmond Hill, told Tory and Toronto Council that the Ontario government wouldn’t be supporting road tolls in Toronto after all.

Instead, she dangled funding, a gift that might have been generous under other circumstances, of $170 million a year from the gas tax, for transit in Toronto, by 2021.

It doesn’t take a great deal of insight to understand the motivation for Wynne’s flip-flop. There is an election coming up next year, the Liberals are polling rock bottom, and Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown has signaled his opposition to a plan that does impact 905 voters/motorists in the pocket book.

His candidates might well prevail in some of those ridings - enough of those ridings to - gasp! - defeat the government.

So of course - fast as you can say "move that gas plant!", Wynne’s Liberals shifted their support from a sensible plan and replaced it with an inadequate one.

It is in character, and to give Wynne and her predecessor credit for cunning if not statesmanship, it is a strategy that’s worked well for them in the past. Support for the ill-advised Scarborough subway extension cemented wins in Scarborough Guildwood in 2013. And moving the aforementioned natural gas plants in Oakville and Mississauga helped bring about a Liberal win in 2011.

But what works for politics doesn’t necessarily do the job for policy. For once, Toronto Council had gathered the strength to get the policy just right, and as usual, the province played cowardly politics.

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Alternate reality beckons at Bathurst-Wilson I’ve always believed reality is bad enough.

It’s bad enough Oswald shot Kennedy and terrorists drove airplanes into the World Trade Center. It’s awful that human beings are affecting the climate on a planetary scale and bringing on a mass extinction.

But there are people here in Toronto who want, or perhaps need, something other than the reality we have.

A billboard now sits on top of Steve’s Restaurant - a place at Bathurst and Wilson which serves a great breakfast - broadcasting a strange message.

On it, a man with roundframe spectacles pokes at airplane contrails with a weirdly elongated index finger. "Are you kidding me," the caption says. "Water vapour?"

MIKE ADLER Edges of Toronto The woman behind the billboard is Suzanne Maher, who was born and raised in North Toronto but moved to Muskoka after being diagnosed with an auto-immune disorder.

Maher has come to believe metal particles are being sprayed behind airplanes by a worldwide conspiracy of governments and the powerful to engineer "global supremacy and military domi-

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Why this would happen is vague, and the evidence for chemtrails is nonsense, but believers in "geoengineering" expand their alternative reality to include things people like me justifiably fear, such as Alzheimer’s and Monsanto Corporation.

Maher, who also arranged chemtrail ads on the Yonge-University subway in 2015 and 2016, says many in Toronto are open to what her group, ByeByeBlueSky, can teach.

"Once you find out about it," she says, "you can’t unlearn it."

I asked if she’s ever doubted the truth of what she’s learned, even for a moment, and no, she hasn’t. Neither have others who believe in chemtrails.

I’m afraid for them. The

shattering "truth" they’ve embraced - governments are poisoning them for profit takes hold of their lives. How could it not?

In a world of "alternative facts" and weakened traditional media, we can expect more of this.

This April, Maher’s group has a booth at Toronto’s Green Living Show for the first time.

Back on Bathurst, there’s no telling how many people coming in for eggs benedict or carrying bags from the No Frills across the street will fall down the rabbit hole by then.

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Frontlines taking registrations for March Break camp March Break is coming and Frontlines is here to help parents find something for their kids to do.

The Weston-based organization is hosting a March Break camp the week of March 13 to 17. Registrations are now open.

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dren aged six to 12. The cost to attend the entire week is $25.

Frontlines is located at 1844 Weston Rd., near the intersection of Weston Road and Lawrence Avenue West.

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Learn about different parenting styles in Weston Parents and caregivers of children aged 0 to 6 have an opportunity to learn about different parenting styles and the benefits of each.

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Vaughan Road Academy will close at the end of the current school year, Toronto District School Board trustees decided at a meeting in December.

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The school, built in 1927 and located in the Oakwood-Vaughan neighbourhood, is slated to close as an operational school this June.

Trustees will vote whether to keep the property as a core-holding site at their Feb. 8 regular meeting.

The school is already home to several community programs, including the Vaughan Road Infant and Toddler Centre, and recreational programs run by the City of Toronto.

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Local trustee Jennifer Arp has repeatedly stated she will advocate to keep the property after the school closes.

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"People look at them and can see some of them are very employable and present very well, but they’ve just had an accident, something went wrong. They’ve done a crime and paid for it," Bjelbo said.

Bjelbo has been volunteering at the Keele and Dundas streets facility since 2004. He joined the facility’s Citizen Advisory Committee (CAC) in 2011.

CAC members observe daily operations, and talk to staff, the offenders and the community, and bring up the issues that may arise.

"We are bridge builders," he said.

Bjelbo’s volunteer work has him going door to door, talking to business owners and residents, hosting open houses and tours, and leading inmates in cleanup projects in the community.

He has helped offenders find work, helped start a loan program where offenders can borrow money to buy such things as work boots and TTC fares, helps them get identification and more.

But in everything he and the CAC do, and what the correctional centre does, public safety is paramount.

"That’s what we have to talk to the public about, about public safety. People fear they just come and go, but no. There is a lot of control," Bjelbo said.

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They are monitored when they step outside, have curfews, their employers receive constant communication and more.

Bjelbo said transitioning from the prison to the centre is tough on inmates, which is something the CAC also helps address, but it’s much better than being sent out right from the prison.

"They feel that: everyone can see that I come from the joint. That’s just something they put on themselves but it can be overwhelming for them to come from the prison to the centre for the first time.

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place that make it hard for men to be involved."

Many of his clients are dealing with the family court system, which often loses site of what’s best for the child, Tafari said.

"Instead of focusing to co-parent in a healthy way, it becomes this custody battle over who’s going to have the most time with the child, who’s going to pay support," he added.

Going into an Ontario Early Years Centre for parenting classes is intimidating for a black man who, as the only black man inside, will feel judged.

"Depending on where you find yourself in society, based on your class, you’re going to find a lot of challenges and barriers and you won’t find the right folks who understand those barriers and help you through it," Tafari said.

He said the city can change that with some policy changes, such as hiring and training program mangers who are sensitive to such issues, providing opportunities for black people with the right qualifications to be hired for management positions at centres that serve the black communities, and more.

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The folks at Weston’s Ujima House are happy that Toronto officials are done collecting data and are now looking for solutions to anti-black racism across the city.

Mayor John Tory and city officials attended Ujima House Saturday, Jan. 21 to talk about policies the city could undertake to start ending racism against the black community.

"The big thing is and the mayor stated it right at the beginning: it’s no longer about doing research and it’s no longer about questioning whether anti-black racism exists within the city. There’s more than enough research to show that," said Zakiya Tafari, interim managing director of Young and Potential Fathers, which co-hosted the meeting.

"It’s about looking at what are the solutions that need to be put in place to address those challenges that our community faces."

Young and Potential Fathers, which runs Ujima House, organized the meeting alongside the Black Daddies Club. Both nonprofit organizations

provide personal and parenting programs for young black fathers.

The mayor’s visit was the first of a series of community meetings to combat anti-black racism as part of the city’s Toronto For All initiative. Meetings with other community organizations are planned over the next few weeks with a report expected at council this spring.

"We are looking for community ideas to develop actions and solutions on how to alleviate and possibly eliminate systemic and cultural barriers," Tory said in a news release.

The mayor stayed for the entire session at Ujima House and listened to 27 attendees, including clients, staff and community leaders such as Tafari.

"Myself and a lot of folks are very glad that was his approach because we’ve been having meetings about this stuff for years and years," Tafari said.

There are many issues of racism in the city. Young and Potential Fathers exists to alleviate the problems young black fathers face, such as the stigma black men don’t want to be fathers, Tafari said.

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