The new 988 mental health hotline American authorities launched on Saturday will, once fully operational, offer residents struggling with suicidal thoughts an easy-to-remember number that will connect them with trained mental health counsellors rather than law enforcement personnel.
“We need to adopt best practices from other countries and go beyond that to do much better than what we’re doing,” she said in a telephone interview on Sunday. “Let's hope it doesn’t take years to adopt 988 in Canada.” "There are huge mental health needs in our communities and that’s only grown over the last number of years,” she said.
A Health Canada spokesperson said the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission is evaluating how this number could be introduced and the department expects a decision from the agency later this year.
Especially if Trudeau stays in power.
And for pizza
Whatever can help.
3-digit crisis hotline is a short-term bandaid fix. In my province, those in need of long-term individual counselling wait 6-12 months to obtain a counsellor. Their service levels are a disgrace, which only adds further suffering to one's mental health
Why not go 4 and just call it self love.
So sad
Whenever I'm feeling suicidal I just hit up 711 and get myself a Slurpee and some Taquitos
BELL will get right on it.
About 20 years overdue tbh
Why should we our prime minister legalize marijuana so there wouldn't be any health mental health problems maybe you should have concentrated on something more important simply legalizing pot so it doesn't help people mental issues if we're still having this much trouble
'A universal theme, frequently conveyed to this Review by police, mental healthcare workers, and the community of people who have experienced mental illness, is that Ontario does not have a mental health system.' The Hon. Justice Frank Jacobucci 2014
Will it have one track for suicide prevention and another for assisted suicide? Or will that be determined by the worker?
.... And then put on hold 🙄
How about bringing competition and stress back to elementary schools…this way when kids hit highschool, you won’t have to medicate them. Ridiculous that they don’t teach children about real life these days…prescribe drugs to the most medicated generation EVER!
Csnada should have sociologists cover by Health care, but the liberals are not serious enough to do that, they prefer to blame everyone else.
Hmm, maybe we shouldn’t have locked down a large portion of the healthy population for 2 years, just a thought 🤦♂️
Like the USA just revealed?
Getting that would be a good step in the right direction but let's be honest MH needs a lot more work and support. Everyday people struggling to hold on and function. We need better ways of dealing with stress mental problems causing people to fall deeper into the rabbit hole
Yes to deal with all the pain and suffering this government is causing us. I agree.
Why? Parents and friends don’t even pick up and that’s who should be answering
I saw somewhere that just started using 988 for their suicide hotline
Use 666, no one else will want it, and easy to remember when the voices get loud in Pandemonium. Mental illness is a personal hell that deserves more respect.
The liberals are too busy purchasing vaccines and investing in Ukraine to give a crap about the mental health of its citizens
yes! include trained pros to deal with drug addictions as well bottom line is we as a society should be doing everything possible to save lives!
Have you seen anything the Gov't runs these days?😬
Give them Trudeaus number!
Or a government who wouldn't take away freedoms
There is… 9-1-1.
Mental Health is a joke here ... 150$ a session, not covered and your insurance doesn't pay for it okay.
Long overdue
And not just a 3 digit crisis line but also one that's accessible to people in the Hard of hearing community and a visual one for people who use ASL.
666
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This is a band aid solution. Better solution is to direct resources to awareness of nutrition, diet, excercise, and breathwork, meditation and mindfulness work that can increase resilience and help get rid of stress and negative emotions.
Nd a three day weekend
No shit.
911?
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