How do we bridge the growing gap between generations and communities?” Rapidly growing economic disenfranchisement of the two youngest generations (particularly young women) is occurring as the two oldest generations (partially males in those generations) increase their accumulation of global wealth. Deloitte’s 2023 survey of Millennials and Gen Z in 44 nations found the top three concerns of young people to be climate change, job insecurity and mental health. A young Peruvian Geologist (Anell Greysy Burga Estela), an Australian IBVM/CJ UN-NGO intern (Lauren Grant), an Indian Rainbow Student Scholar with an MA in Public Administration (Puja Dey), and a Canadian Sanctuary Scholar and Project Coordinator for S4Collective (Brantella Williams) spoke to the impact of international poverty, domestic violence and job insecurity on young people in their respective regions. My question is how do we fund research to measure the impact of poverty, homelessness, job insecurity, migration, and domestic violence on mental health in young people and provide effective measures to heal and break the cycle?
