Balance and Connection in BC

The housing crisis in BC may be having an impact on students’ well-being, as There was an increase from previous years youth were more likely than five years earlier to in the percentage of students who had cut have moved to a new home and to have moved or injured themselves on purpose without trying multiple times in the past year. [...] However, there was The percentage of students who slept for a slight decrease in the percentage who planned eight or more hours the night before taking to finish high school, from 89% in 2013 to 87% in the survey decreased from 53% to 48%. [...] Compared to 2013, students were more The percentage of students who had oral likely to feel connected to their community sex or intercourse was unchanged from and to have an adult in their community who five years earlier, although a lower percentage cared about them. [...] Non-binary youth were the There was an increase in the percentage of stu- most likely to have run away from home and to dents who had moved in the past year (from 23% have been kicked out. [...] I would like to connect more with people with the same disability.” “I recently went to the dentist and had some things Grade 11 student, Interior done on my teeth and was prescribed pills.” Grade 9 student, Island Compared to five years earlier, there was a decrease in the percentage of youth who reported Most youth (83%) had been to the dentist in having a long-term or chronic medical condition