While 61 per cent of Canadian children and youth were able to access at least one early intervention in mental health care when they went looking for it, more than half said finding it wasn’t easy, a new national survey suggests.
Early interventions for youth are especially important since they can prevent mild problems from becoming more severe disorders, and improve outcomes into adulthood. The data identify a second worrisome category of youth: the 40 per cent in the survey group who felt they needed help but didn’t access services at all.
The percentage of people of all ages who visited emergency for mental health and substance-use issues more than four times a year remained stable, at 10 per cent in 2021-2022, compared with the previous year. The number of Canadians who were admitted to hospital for substance-use issues rose significantly, and those admitted for mental health and addiction issues at least three times in one year also increased.
What damn good would they do anyway? Maybe stop creating the problem?
No doutb. They tell you it's easy reach out then they hire one extra part time staffer. Its the liberal way.
And people with real mental illness are discounted and have an even worse time because everybody and their cousin claims to have anxiety and/or depression. Even Kardashians claim 'anxiety' which is ridiculous.
I wonder if the suicide hotline suggests medical assistance in dying
Thanks to the Ford government
True. I've checked in on this myself. Expensive or distant seem the options...
The Ontario pcs cut those programs. And Alberta never had them. Lol.
Only easy if you want death