Conducted study to examine effects of House of Shalom Youth Centre, a community peer counseling program for adolescents. Compared group of adolescents (N=102) who had received peer counseling to two control groups (N=236) to examine impact of counseling on stress and social support. Found peer counseling seemed to have positive effect on promotion…

Notes that community mental health programs are an expanding force in the promotion of mental health and that this has implications for the roles of counselors who are becoming more involved in consultation, training and education of volunteers, and program planning and evaluation. Describes community group counseling health promotion program for…

Challenges counselors to adapt to the multidisciplinary approach for the delivery of mental health services in Canada by moving from the provision of direct services to individual clients to providing indirect services such as program planning, implementation, evaluation, consultation, training, supervision of other workers, and administration as…

Enumerates four key principles embodied in the Young Offenders Act. Shows that the Act is an innovative bill that tries to balance the responsibilities of young offenders and the community with the special needs of young people. Describes a program which integrates prevention and rehabilitation processes. (ABB)

This article describes the House of Shalom Youth Centre Program in Ontario, Canada, and the group model which was developed there for working with youth. Six career counseling workshops were developed using the "Life Skills" lesson model. An example of an experiential exercise is provided. (LKS)

Canada's deinstitutionalization and decentralization of mental health services has confronted communities with many problems. Families of the mentally ill are being required to do major caregiving without being provided with the necessary resources, as this case study illustrates. Counselors and health care professionals involved with families…