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Youth in Transition: Youth in Transition: Mental Health Problems of Black and Micmac Students at Dalhousie University *

The civil rights movements in the United States and Canada in the 1960's led Dalhousie University to an awareness of the social, educational and financial needs of racial minority youth in Nova Scotia, which resulted in the establishment of a Transitional Year Program (TYP) in 1970. Black and Micmac students, who could not enter university due to inadequate academic attainments or for financial reasons, were thus admitted to Dalhousie following a transition year of remedial courses in English and Mathematics, and courses in Black and Micmac culture and history. Initially, admission criteria were very informal and included an apparent desire for self-improvement, initiative, sense of community responsibility and evidence of sociocultural deprivation. By 1972, it became apparent that a grade eleven or twelve high school education or its equivalent was; necessary if students were to bridge their educational gap in only one year. Students are provided with tuition, books, room and board, and a small allow-