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Barriers to mental health services and treatment
While evidence highlights emerging issues, it also informs decisions and provides policy and programme recommendations for governments and partners, to improve children's lives. UINCEF Belize continues to support research to collect actionable knowledge to improve programs for children. Under UNICEF’s health pill...
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A vision for child and adolescent empowerment
UNICEF’s adolescent strategy for Belize is designed to address challenges adolescents face with focus on adolescent girls, adolescent boys, those with disabilities, and marginalized groups. By focusing on adolescent health and well-being, and building resilience, this strategy aims to create an enabling environmen...
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Adolescent Health National Strategic Plan 2019-2030
In Belize, the adolescent population of approximately 97,000 (aged 10-19) accounts for 20% of the total population. Adolescence is a defining time in the development of a child that is characterized by rapid physical growth and neurological sculpting, the onset of puberty and sexual maturity. It is a critical peri...
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Adolescent Link Up Session focuses on Mental Health
Belize City, BELIZE 8 JUNE 2022 -, Today the children and adolescent got thier opportunity to have a conversation with UNICEF officials about mental health and how they managed the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Regional Director, Jean Gough was joined by Regional Adolescent Health Specialist, Diane Restrepo...
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For all children newsletter volume 6 - August 2019
“Houn sun irahüñü” meaning “For all the children” … The words from the indigenous language of Garifuna meaning “for all the children” is the name chosen for our newsletter. It embodies the mission of our organization… advocating for the rights of every child, ensuring that every child has a fair chance to a high q...
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Belize Experience on the AH national strategic plan
Belize is among the first countries globally to adopt the global guidance Accelerating Action for Health of Adolescents for development of a National Adolescent Health Strategic Plan.
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Making adolescent mental health a priority in Belize
This newsletter profiles UNICEF’s programme support to adolescent mental health in Belize with the specific areas of support aligned to the relevant strategies in the National Adolescent Health Strategic Plan (2019-2030) developed with UNICEF support in 2018.
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Belize - Adolescent health digest
Welcome to this Digest. We hope you'll enjoy reading about UNICEF's work on adolescent health in Belize., By 2030 ... That Belize will become the best country in the world in which to grow up and raise a family, and where the rights of all children and adolescents are respected, protected and fulfilled; where thei...