Healthy Child Manitoba
Adolescence/Youth (Ages 13-18)
Healthy Child Manitoba recognizes that teens are capable of choosing healthy lifestyles and, through our many community partners, provides the tools to foster a healthy transition into adulthood.
Healthy Child Manitoba provides funding to community groups to support healthy adolescent development, including initiatives for healthy sexuality and reproductive health and positive mental health through teen-centred prevention and intervention programs.
Teen Talk Program
The Teen Talk Program offers a continuum of reproductive health, mental health, sexuality, substance use and anti-violence education to youth, in and out of school and throughout the Province. The program operates from a harm reduction perspective and utilizes an abstinence plus model. Using a youth-oriented approach, Teen Talk adheres to the belief that by providing youth with comprehensive, non-judgmental information, we enhance their ability to make positive health decisions.
Teen Clinics
Healthy Child Manitoba funds six teen-centred primary health services: Elmwood Teen Clinic, managed by the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority through Access River East; St. John’s High School Teen Clinic, managed by Mount Carmel Clinic; Nor-Man Teen Clinics in Flin Flon, The Pas and Cranberry Portage managed by Nor-Man Regional Health Authority; and Selkirk Teen Clinic, managed by Interlake Regional Health Authority. All Healthy Child Manitoba funded teen clinics were developed through a community development approach and operate on the core principles of choice, confidentiality, accessibility, harm reduction and cultural responsiveness.
The goals of teen-centred health care services are to:
- ensure young people in Manitoba have access to health services that are accessible and appropriate to their needs;
- provide young people with opportunities to learn about the health issues that concern them, identify strategies for maintaining good health and access health promotion tools and resources; and
- provide young people with accurate non judgmental information, respectful care that acknowledges the diversity of cultures and values of all young people, and recognizes gender specific needs.
In 2006 Healthy Child Manitoba in partnership with other government departments, the WRHA and community based organizations developed a Teen Clinic Services Manual and a Volunteer Manual and Training Curriculum. These manuals are intended to support organizations wanting to develop a teen centered health clinic or sexual and reproductive health volunteer services within their organization.
Teen Clinic Services Manual
Volunteer Manual and Training Curriculum
Locations of Teen Clinics in Manitoba
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Teen Clinics In Winnipeg
Teen Clinics In Rural Manitoba
Northern Aboriginal Youth Council
Located in the northern Manitoba, Ma Mow We Tak Friendship Centre administers culturally appropriate initiatives with northern aboriginal youth to assist in reducing unintended adolescent pregnancies.
Adolescent Parent Interagency Network (APIN)
APIN is a network of agencies and professionals in Manitoba who meet monthly with the goal of ensuring high quality service to pregnant and parenting adolescents.
Your Choice for Your Reasons
In 2002 APIN and Healthy Child Manitoba developed a series of resources to provide youth and service providers working with youth up to date and factual information about pregnancy options.
A pamphlet outlining the three safe and legal options available for youth who become pregnant was revised in 2012. The pamphlet is not meant to take the place of decision-making counselling with a professional pregnancy counsellor but can be provided to youth as a first step in the process of dealing with an unintended pregnancy.
The 2009 revised service provider handbook replaces the original Your Choice for Your Reasons handbook published in 2002. This handbook is not intended to replace comprehensive decision making training for service providers regarding counselling women of any age with an unintended pregnancy.
Think Again Media Campaign
Working with youth, this campaign developed a province-wide, teen pregnancy prevention media campaign with the message “If You Think It Can’t Happen To You - Think Again”. Hard-hitting television, radio, bus shelter and billboard ads, in-school posters and the Think Again Website were launched in 2002. The Campaign was updated in 2006 to focus on sexual decision making. Pamphlets, posters and facilitator guides for service providers are available through the Healthy Child Manitoba office.
Signs Of Suicide (SOS) (Pilot)
A new initiative under Reclaiming Hope: Manitoba’s Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy, Signs of Suicide (SOS) is an evidence-based school-based prevention program incorporating curricula to raise awareness of suicide and it’s related issues; and a brief screening for depression and other risk factors associated with suicidal behaviour.
Children’s Special Services
Children's Special Services Provides support to families to care for children who have physical and/or mental disabilities.
Parent Child Coalitions
Parent Child Coalitions bring resources together through community organizations across the province to support parenting, improve children’s nutrition and literacy, and build capacity for helping families in their own communities.
The Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Strategy
The Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Strategy helps with the prevention, intervention and care and support of individuals with FAS or alcohol related birth defects.
Healthy Schools
Healthy Schools focuses on the development of health promoting strategies for school communities using the principles of comprehensive school health and includes community-based activities, targeted provincial activities, provincial resource development, and other related activities.
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