Integrated Youth Services, as Minister Bennett outlined, was an important priority area of the $5 billion in investments in mental health bilateral agreements that were made. That is ongoing.
She spoke as well to the fact that integrated youth services, which are really about receiving youth with peer counsellors who understand their living experience, wrapping them with the full suite of support services they need—medical, social, housing—and ensuring they have all the supports they need to get through their challenges....
We now have 50 operational sites as a result of those investments in our partnership with provinces, and there are an additional 60 under development.
We also know that youth need to be reached in different ways. Text and virtual online services, through Wellness Together Canada, have been very successful in reaching, in particular, LGBTQ+ youth and others who want to speak with others with the same experiences they are going through. An additional $15 million investment to Kids Help Phone is part of that to make sure that youth who are in crisis have someone to reach out to 24-7.