Kids and young adults these days are facing an uphill climb with every step. Peer pressure, family drama, consumerism, addictions, stress from intense schoolwork loads, demands from first jobs – it adds up to a powerful lot. Worse still, many families and their children struggle to find an appropriate, dependable and safe environment in which to address these problems, without having putting life on hold and subsequently making things worse.
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Frayme is knowledge mobilization network for youth mental health research, practice and lived experience. Frayme was created to ensure that young people everywhere benefit from the latest knowledge in youth mental health and substance use. Because healthy young people means a healthy future and a healthy now.