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Province changing health-care status quo: MPP
Tuesday, February 21st, 2023
… Your Health: A Plan for Convenient and Connected Care… lays out a broad series of initiatives that will provide the right care in the right place, deliver faster access to care and hire more health-care workers… the plan includes expanding the role of pharmacists… Youth Wellness Hubs; and expanding team-based care through Ontario Health Teams to better connect and co-ordinate people’s care within their own community.
Tags: Health, mental Health, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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New website aims to improve access to counselling services
Friday, June 17th, 2022
Family Service Ontario, with the help of Caredove, an Orillia-based software company, has launched the Ontario Counselling Finder website using Caredove’s WebBuilder, where members of the public can enter their home address to find the nearest Family Service Ontario member agency. Member agencies can optionally allow the public to request an intake appointment through the secure e-referral platform… “Our hope is to increase awareness that these services are available, and to reduce the barriers in accessing them,”
Tags: jurisdiction, mental Health, multiculturalism, participation
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‘It’s time’: Local moms laud area senator’s drug-decriminalization bill
Saturday, May 1st, 2021
Former OPP commissioner leading the charge for a national strategy; ‘These are people with health issues who need treatment, not jail time’… the opioid crisis continues to devastate people and families from all walks of life. Boniface noted there were 1,517 apparent opioid toxicity deaths in Ontario in 2019… In 2019, about 75 per cent of all opioid-poisoning deaths involved fentanyl. “If that’s not enough to start a conversation, I don’t know what is”
Tags: crime prevention, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical
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Assumption that institutions are best for elderly is false
Monday, April 12th, 2021
Today Ontario relies far too heavily on institutions and far too little on funding the support required to help elderly people age in place in their own homes or at least within small personalized homes, within their own community… We must challenge the negative assumptions about elderly people that are resulting in widespread institutionalization.
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, housing, ideology, participation, standard of living
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