Support Youth Mental Health Today
Join us on or before the weekend of October 19 - 20 for the 2024 RBC Race for the Kids and help us grow RVH to expand access to lifesaving mental health care for all the children in our region and the families who love them.
Together we can make a difference!
OUR COLLECTIVE IMPACT
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Runners signed up
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Funds Raised
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Kms covered
RBC Race for the Kids, supporting youth charities around the world
Over the past decade, the RBC Race for the Kids series has grown to include 25+ charitable events raising more than $82 million CAD for local charity partners.
RBC is supporting virtual and live family fun runs all over the world in 2024. Please join a race close to you and help these amazing youth charities continue their important work.
Thank you for your support!
3300+
YOUTH FROM ACROSS OUR REGION ACCESS MENTAL HEALTH CARE AT RVH CARE ANNUALLY
70%
OF MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES BEGIN IN CHILDHOOD
1 IN 5
CANADIANS EXPERIENCE MENTAL ILLNESS
Why Your Support Matters
Your support will directly impact the lives of young people experiencing a mental health crisis, and the families who love them.
Through the Hearts and Minds campaign, you helped us raise more than $25 million to open the eight-bed inpatient unit at the end of 2017. Since then, approximately 2,400 children have been able to access life-saving inpatient mental health care at RVH.
That’s close 500 young people each year who can get critical mental health care close to home and close to the comfort and support of family and friends.
And that care doesn’t stop upon discharge. Our patients, their caregivers and families are all part of the treatment and transitional plan, including continuing care, in collaboration with our community partners and our own outpatient programs, for as long as that care is needed.
Our region is growing, outpacing the resources available. RVH is the only regional health centre in Simcoe Muskoka to provide this important care for our kids. An expansion to RVH, and to our CYMH program, will help ensure we can provide this care to everyone who needs it here in our region, helping our kids to stay healthy and stay wild.
