Status of Women committee  I've had the honour of working and developing a clinic with Wood's Homes, which is a not-for-profit in Alberta, and creating CATS clinic, the Calgary Adolescent Treatment Services. Very sadly and unfortunately, 30% of the youth who come are indigenous. I say that because only 3%

Status of Women committee  Definitely. Marginalized communities, youth experiencing homelessness, indigenous or very diverse youth.... There's a lack of services. It isn't that they aren't there, but sometimes they're very nervous about asking for help. They do not want to go to big hospitals or other clin

Status of Women committee  In general, eating disorders are multifactorial illnesses. There are genetic underpinnings and serotonin receptors, and there's an environmental context—social media and screen time have been alluded to as impacts on body image. It's an anxiety-based illness. Over the last two a

Status of Women committee  I think what you're speaking to is a diagnosis called ARFID, which is avoidant restrictive food intake disorder. We can see that coming. Someone does not have a body image issue, but they've had a choking event or severe abdominal pain from, perhaps, celiac or other illnesses. Th

Status of Women committee  No. I actually believe that trauma raises the cortisol in one's body, and there are many illnesses that can come from having a trauma or specifically a sexual assault. I believe there is a connection, but I don't know the literature around this, and that would be something I woul

Status of Women committee  I'd have to go back to look at the year that they put this forward, but I know of a law in Spain that says models need to be a BMI of, I believe, 18.5 or higher, but they cannot be below that. It may be 18. It is a law, so absolutely no models can be below that. The other thing

Status of Women committee  Maybe some are aware of the Palix Foundation in Calgary. It has done a lot of work on the Brain Story. There is a plethora of evidence on early childhood education and prenatal development. They're really helping individuals understand how the brain works, in a very simplistic wa

Status of Women committee  The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons said quite a few years ago that all physicians should be educated in mental health and physical health: It doesn't matter if you're an orthopedic surgeon, a brain surgeon or a pediatrician. I was on a Royal College subcommittee, and I

Status of Women committee  If someone has HPV, which they could have acquired with sexual assault, there is definitely a link to cervical cancer—

Status of Women committee  I'm really thrilled that you're aware of self-regulation and those topics. Recently I did a program called Reset to Reconnect. It was with six families with adolescent boys. We did an initial kind of education. Then they went to it with their families, calling out their familie

Status of Women committee  I want to go back to what a few people have discussed. Let's bring it back to the family, and let's bring it back to the schools and into the community. One of the things that really is curious to me is why, after two and a half years of such significant increase in mental healt

Status of Women committee  Yes. It's the law. It's a law.

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much. I really appreciate the question. We have to look at where the most expensive care is, and the most expensive care is in hospitals. When we can work with community to make guidelines that include the amazing work they do, move things into community and par

Status of Women committee  Thank you. Those are a lot of ideas at once. I would say that eating disorders have increased exponentially. There are so many factors. I will say that back in 2014 when I testified at status of women around eating disorders, at that time Spain had just announced that models

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much for that question. I have to take a breath, because I have a lot of professional thoughts about this, but I also have a lot of personal thoughts about this. Children were at the absolute lowest risk of impact from the disease, yet they were the ones who suf