MikePaterson
Mental health call!
Posted on: 05/07/2012 13:33
NEWS:
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Mental-health strategy calls for complete overhaul, $4-billion commitment
ANDRÉ PICARD — PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTER
Globe and Mail
Published Sunday, May. 06, 2012 6:09PM EDT
Canada’s mental-health system is underfunded and poorly co-ordinated and needs a complete overhaul to meet the needs of patients and their families, the Mental Health Commission says in its long-awaited national strategy.
The 152-page document recommends an immediate infusion of $4-billion annually for mental-health care; calls on employers to implement psychological health and safety standards to protect workers; says efforts to divert people with severe mental-health problems out of the justice system and into care need to be accelerated; and embraces a “housing first” philosophy to get homeless people suffering from mental illness off the streets.
Here's a link to the report:
http://www.mentalhealthcommission.ca/SiteCollectionDocuments/boarddocs/15507_MHCC_EN_final.pdf
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MikePaterson
Posted on: 05/07/2012 13:36
Sorry \!!! that link is to the OLD report. The new one comes out on Tuesday.
Here's a link to the Globe & Mail story:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/mental-health-strategy-calls-for-complete-overhaul-4-billion-commitment/article2424337/
ninjafaery
Posted on: 05/07/2012 15:29
Isn't this why Harper is building the megaprisons? Kills two birds with one stone.
ab penny
Posted on: 05/08/2012 21:09
I read this on the weekend, Mike. Using the prison system to care for the mentally challenged is a poor showing for a country that can be noted, at the very least, as advantaged.
MikePaterson
Posted on: 05/09/2012 17:19
HERE'S a link to the 2012 Strategy document:
http://strategy.mentalhealthcommission.ca/pdf/strategy-images-en.pdf
It reads like a long-awaited revolution.