Life as we knew it changed March of 2020, as the world grappled with the realities of living in the COVID-19 era.
Samji, also a professor at Simon Fraser University and an affiliate researcher with BC Children’s Hospital Research Centre, has co-authored a new report with Dr. Evelyn Stewart and others that has been released for National Mental Health Week . It highlights strategies to support youth mental health and well-being during post-pandemic recovery.
The key finding from the report, she said, is a highlighted sense of loss and loneliness in youth due to social isolation. There have been fewer opportunities to socialize, and considering it’s a key developmental period where they’re learning to work with their peers, she said it is important to pay attention to it.
“We need to think about better coordination between education, public health and community partners — what programs work best and for whom, and then have a provincial body to do that kind of coordination and review the evidence and potentially be a repository for tools and best practices that everyone could look to,” she said.
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