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Health & Well-Being
Healthy Families
February 12, 2021
148
RESPONDERS
24%
RESPONSE RATE
26%
39
68%
100
6%
9
TOTAL RESPONDERS
2
How important is it for families to provide young people under 18 with the following things? A) Mental/emotional support
143 responded out of 153 polled
5
How important is it for families to provide financial support for young people over 18 to live independently (e.g. help with rent, bills, and food)?
135 responded out of 136 polled
6
How easy or hard do you think it is for most parents/guardians in Canada to provide these things for their children?
129 responded out of 135 polled
7
How much do you agree or disagree with the following statements? Families need support (for example, from their community or governments) to provide young people with physical, mental, spiritual, well being
122 responded out of 130 polled
8
Families need support (for example, from their community or governments) to provide young people with a safe healthy home environment
120 responded out of 122 polled
9
Families need support (for example, from their community or governments) to provide young people with culture, religion, tradition, and values
117 responded out of 120 polled
10
What are three things every family needs in order to be physically, mentally, and emotionally healthy?
108 responded out of 117 polled
11
What are three words to describe what a happy childhood and adolescence look like to you?
107 responded out of 108 polled
12
What is something young people can do to help build healthy relationships with their family?
104 responded out of 107 polled
Healthy Families: What U-Reporters Have to Say
  • What are three things every family needs in order to be physically, mentally, and emotionally healthy? 
  • • The most common responses, by far, focus on basic needs. The majority of answers mention at least one of the following:
    •     o Money, income, or financial security/stability
    •     o Safe housing/shelter
    •     o Food
    •     o Basic needs/necessities
  • • Many responses also include relational qualities. The most common of these are communication, respect, understanding, love, and trust
  • • Other responses include access to mental health services, education, and community support

  • What are three words to describe what a happy childhood and adolescence look like to you? 
  • • Support
  • • Love 
  • • Safety
  • • Freedom, independence
  • • Happiness, joy, fun
  • • Education, learning, growth
  • • Friends, community, social 
  • • Carefree, not worrying

  • What is something young people can do to help build healthy relationships with their family?
  • • Open communication is key. Young people should communicate their needs and feelings to their parents, and talk to them honestly even about difficult topics
  • • Spend time with them, connect over common interests or hobbies, establish family traditions 
  • • Be appreciative and respectful, don’t take them for granted 
  • • Young people should try to understand their families, and to try help their families understand them
  • • There are limits to young people’s roles in this; parents/guardians need to be open and willing to engage

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