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About Juno House
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"Courage comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one’s actions." |
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Aung San Suu Kyi, 1991 |
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Our Mission
The mission for Juno House is to motivate girls and young women to build their capacity for emotional health, while inviting their parents to develop a more coherent understanding of themselves and their children.
Who we are
Juno House was created as a centre of excellence for girls, young women and their families. Utilizing a team approach, Juno House provides on-site individual and family counselling, and has off-site partners – a consulting nutritionist, pediatrician, psychiatrist, and personal trainer – to provide comprehensive and coordinated treatment. The Juno House team works together to ensure the highest standard of professional treatment, clinical supervision, consultation, and client success.
In addition to providing counselling services, Juno House also operates as a training centre for therapists to develop and improve their skills in working with girls and young women. This community capacity building provides in-house and community training, and also helps to organize and host community training workshops.
Juno House is also supported by the Juno House Foundation, a non-profit corporation that raises funds to provide subsidized, sliding-scale counselling services, as well as to provide funds for capacity building.
Improving the Health of Adolescent Girls
"Nature and Nurture are inseparable."
 In January of 1999, the Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation supporting independent research on health and social issues, released a report titled: Improving the Health of Adolescent Girls.
While some years have passed since this ground-breaking report, little has changed in the overall findings, and the recommendations in the report provide a basis of understanding and direction for Juno House. The following excerpts are taken from this report. |
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- Eating disorders remain a serious health risk for adolescent girls. 13% of younger girls (grades 5-8) and 18% of older girls (grades 9-12) in the survey reported having binged and purged. One third binge and purge at least once a day, and another 13% binge and purge more than once a week.
- Before high school, one out of five girls describes herself as overweight. In high school, the numbers rise to one out of three girls.
- Before high school, girls are less likely to diet (39%) and more likely to exercise regularly (81%). As girls enter high school, they exercise less than younger girls (67%) and are more likely to turn to dieting to control weight ( 58%).
- Before graduating from high school, nearly one out of three adolescent girls will experience depression, anxiety disorders, or eating disorders, approximately twice the rate of boys.
- Girls’ self-confidence declines during adolescence, with only 39% of high school girls reporting high self-confidence, compared to 44% of younger girls. By high school, girls are almost twice as likely as boys the same age to say that they do not like themselves or that they hate themselves (25% vs. 14%).
- Health professionals need to receive training in how to approach adolescent girls more effectively.
- Expanded efforts are needed to prevent, detect, and treat depression, serious stress, anxiety, eating disorders, and other psychological problems that compromise the present and future health and well-being of girls.
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