Transforming Canada's Mental Health, Mental Illness and Addiction Services
The Canadian Senate just released a new report titled:
OUT OF THE SHADOWS AT LAST - Transforming Mental Health, Mental Illness and Addiction Services in Canada
The Globe and Mail newspaper out of Toronto noted:
A Senate committee has recommended that Ottawa establish a permanent Canadian Mental Health Commission, garnering praise from numerous mental health and wellbeing advocacy groups.
In a report released Tuesday, the committee also recommended that the government spend $5.36-billion to "assist in transforming the mental health system over a ten-year-period."
Those funds would come from raising the excise tax on alcoholic drinks by five cents per drink.
The committee hopes that in addition to helping fund its approach, the added cost to alcoholic beverages could mean people would drink lower-alcohol products.
The newly created Mental Health Commission would allow for a more national approach to mental health and addiction, committee members said, and would link various programs in the provinces under one umbrella, the Senate social affairs committee said in a report released Tuesday.
Senator Wilbert Keon, deputy chairman of the committee, said he hopes the plan will "end the long-standing fragmentation of services, and reduce the stigma and discrimination faced by persons living with mental illness."
"Our recommendation to create a Canadian Mental Health Commission will focus national attention on this long-neglected area," Mr. Keon said."
The Full Report is available at this link (immediately below):
OUT OF THE SHADOWS AT LAST - Transforming Mental Health, Mental Illness and Addiction Services in Canada
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