Understanding the current youth generation

I struggled with the mental health self care for adolescents topic in the beginning of the team project. It thought it would be a challenge to design tangible products for mental health issues. 

I did the research on the topics but do not feel confident that I can proceed with the design. 

 

After I came across Kids Help Phone and read cases and explored their website, I came to have a better understanding of the topic. 

I have created websites for more than one and half decades and that is the reason why I am more close to website structure in means of getting new information. 

 

I also like the overall design of the site and it is a kids friendly website but the design also invites adult users and this is probably targeting a teacher or parents group. 

 

I came to learn that “Kids help Phone” doesn’t use the word ‘mental health’ but they are using ‘emotional health’. It really made me think and reflect how I thought when I was a teenager. 

I came to Canada as a teenager myself and went through the struggle that the current newcomer teenagers are going through now. And then using the favorable word like ‘emotional health’ over ‘mental health’ would make a tremendous difference to reach out to kids. 

After that realization, I finally came to have a better understanding of the project and feel a bit more confident about the project now.

 

not mental health but emotional health

 

Newcomers

https://kidshelpphone.ca/topic/identity/newcomers/

Newcomers - Kids Help Phone

Self-care

https://kidshelpphone.ca/get-info/how-practice-self-care/

 

Advise

 

https://kidshelpphone.ca/get-info/counsellor-qa-what-like-newcomer/