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Andrea Yip (@andie86) shares her summary of #hcsmca’s special edition chat about youth health navigation.

Thanks to everyone for joining @colleen_young and the @Youth4Health team on March 24th for an engaging and lively tweet chat around youth health navigation! We were thrilled to hear that there was budding interest from the #hcsmca community for this type of dialogue and were happy to have the opportunity to share our experiences, ideas, and learnings from the project with tweeps new to the project, good friends, and #y4h supporters.

Thousands of young Canadians use social media and smart phones to help immigrant communities navigate the health system

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 24, 2011

What if young, disenfranchised newcomers were empowered to help navigate their families and communities through the maze of Canadian health and social services, using social networks, fulfilling their desires to support others and lead?

Hey Folks!

We have some exciting news to share: Our navigators will be interviewed LIVE on Catch da Flava Radio Show tomorrow evening, Tuesday March 22 at 7:30PM ET from CKLN 88.1FM, from Ryerson Student Centre.

Health navigators Cheng, Sundas, Hanan and Abdi will be taking questions from the Flava team...so definitely tune in if you're free! An audio podcast will also be made available on their website: http://www.catchdaflava.com/content/radio.html

Hope you listen in!

Two weeks ago Andrea Yip (@andie86), social media coordinator at Youth4Health (@youth4health), asked me if the #hcsmca community would be interested in discussing youth and health navigation. Her request came at the same time @shebamuturi posted a link to a series in the Vancouver Sun about patient navigation in the Canada. Initial tweets have shown that there is a great interest in discussing youth and health navigation, so I asked Andrea to prepare this case study about the Youth4Health project to set the stage for our discussion March 24th.

- Colleen Young

It's been a busy month for youth voices but we've had a lot of activity over the past few weeks. In addition to launching www.NavigateThis.ORG, our official youth health navigation toolkit, we have also launched the NavigateThis! Youth Contest! Our fearless social marketing and promotions leader, Kevin Black, has been leading this effort and has more details about the contest below!

NavigateThis! Youth Contest
Do you work with youth age 16-25 who:

(a) are artistic
(b) are active?
(c) like writing?
(d) some of the above
(e) all of the above ALL OF THE TIME!

I just wanted to let you know what you can expect from Youth4Health for the next 6 weeks! Here are a few things you should know about:

In the past few weeks, the CAMH navigators worked diligently to come up with an amazing training event, which was facilitated this past Saturday, January 22 at U for Change in St. James Town. The event, Navigate This, utilized the identify, sensitize, connect model to present the mental health content they had explored over the past 8 weeks.

Below you’ll find a brief agenda of the content the youth chose to present to the nearly 40 young people in attendance on Saturday!

Identify: What is Mental Health?

Last week I updated everyone on how the Waterloo health navigators have been using Photovoice as part of their work in learning about health navigation.

This week I want to highlight the peer trainings our Waterloo navigators (as well, as our navigators across different Y4H projects) are developing as a navigation tool. These peer trainings will be an opportunity for our navigators to share all the content they have learned and developed with others in their school community and beyond.

Check out my blog (in jpg form) below: