Growing Girls
Arnica Foundation invests in adolescent girls and young women to help them grow into emotionally strong and powerful women.
Upcoming Arnica Events
Two Day Clinical Workshop – April 8 and 9, 2025
The Power of Showing Up: Clinical Application of Interpersonal Neurobiology, and Supporting Parents of Teens with the Brain in Mind
In this two day workshop by Tina Payne Bryson, PhD, clinician, consultant, and internationally recognized co-author with Daniel Siegel, will look at what the science says about the best predictors for how kids and teens develop, and how clinicians can work with parents in to cultivate secure attachment, and responding to challenges
Public Presentation for Parents – April 8 2025
Parenting with the Brain in Mind
Tina Payne Bryson, PhD, clinician, consultant, and internationally recognized co-author with Daniel Siegel, presents on what if parents had a simple and practical way to use the latest scientific research to be better parents and help their children be happier, healthier, and more successful?
Arnica Foundation was established to address the serious mental health issues unique to adolescent girls and young women. Anxiety is a contributing factor in their mental health, and can result in depression, self-harm, obsessive compulsive disorders, and disordered eating – issues that require access to specialized therapeutic treatment.
In 2020, the Canadian Institute for Health Information reported that nearly one in four hospitalizations for children and youth age 5 to 24 were for mental health conditions, and girls age 15 to 17 were two times more likely to be admitted than boys. Additionally, Statistics Canada reports that eating disorders typically begin in adolescence or young adulthood, and affect women ten times more than men.
The Anxiety and Depression Association of America also reports that:
- Over two – thirds of antidepressants are prescribed to teenage girls.
- Self – poisoning victims are about five times as likely to be girls.
- Girls make up over 90% of children admitted to hospital for eating disorders
Growing financial access to therapy
Arnica Foundation provides financial subsidies to adolescent girls, young women and their families in need of mental health therapy.
Growing therapists
Arnica Foundation works to increase therapeutic capacity in Calgary and surrounding regions. We do this by providing specialized training to therapists in the treatment of adolescent girls and young women.
Growing community support
Arnica Foundation funds educational initiatives within the broader professional community, and also funds initiatives that focus on early parenthood training and emotional coaching for parents.
We’re Growing
Growing girls depends on your donations to build emotionally strong and powerful women.