By Samantha Craggs, CBC News
Posted: Oct 24, 2012 11:08 PM ET
Last Updated: Oct 24, 2012 11:06 PM ET
Sarah Cannon's daughter Emily was excited to go to her friend's birthday party.
She received the invitation on a weekend. That week, Emily did an interview with the local newspaper about having bipolar disorder. The day after the article appeared, she was uninvited from the birthday party.
That story and more were among those shared at CBC Hamilton's first town hall — Mental Health 101: Youth and the Hidden Crisis in Our Community — at Mohawk College on Wednesday night.
Sarah Cannon and Dr. Sheila Harms participated as panelists. (Samantha Craggs/CBC) The session started with each of the four panelists saying a word that defined youth mental health. Cannon, a St. Catharines mom and executive director of Parents for Children's Mental Health, said "stigma."
"I think that is for families and for children and youth pretty close to enemy No. 1."
Busting stigma was one of the goals of the town hall, which was moderated by Heather Hiscox, host of CBC News Now. About 120 attended the session, and dozens more participated online as the session was streamed live at cbc.ca/mentalhealth101.
Joining Cannon on the panel were Mariette Lee, a McMaster University student living with depression and anxiety; David Hoy, manager of social work services department at the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board, and Dr. Sheila Harms, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at McMaster Children's Hospital.
Attendees included local youth, teachers, social workers and mental health survivors. Among them was Eric Barby, a Dundas native and nursing student in a joint McMaster/Mohawk College program. He also survived a suicide attempt at age 15.
Eric Barby was one of several people who had questions and comments from the floor. Barby attended the session because he thinks the issue should be talked about more.
"Without mental health, there is no health," he said. "So I'd like to get more involved in doing what Sarah Connor said — to turn up the heat and keep it a boiling issue."
Dr. Hamidah Meghani, Hamilton's associate medical officer of health, agreed. Child and youth mental health is "really important work," she said after the session.
"I feel that there's more work to be done and Public Health is looking forward to furthering this work in Hamilton."
The session was held in light of statistics that one in five Canadians will experience mental illness in their lifetime, and of those, only one-third of children who need services get them.
You can watch the session again at cbc.ca/mentalhealth101. It may also be a future broadcast on CBC Radio.
In addition to a series of CBC Hamilton stories at cbc.ca/mentalhealth101, Mohawk College journalism students are scheduled to release a special edition of their news magazine on Thursday.
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