Posts Tagged ‘mental Health’
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School guidance counsellors ‘stretched’ amid rising mental health needs
“Principals are saying ‘we’ve got a crisis here in terms of the mental health piece, and we don’t have enough staff to address it, either through psychologists and social workers or through guidance’” … With only half the schools able to regularly access a psychologist and a shortage of school social workers, “the role of guidance counsellors may be stretched to fill the gaps,” says the report.
Tags: budget, mental Health, youth
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Prescription for healthier population: spend more on social services
A one-cent increase in social spending for every dollar spent on health care increases life expectancy and cuts premature death, study shows… Dutton and his fellow researchers looked at health and social spending in nine provinces over 31 years from 1981 to 2011 and compared it to three population health measures: potentially avoidable death, life expectancy and infant mortality… “More social spending was associated with a more positive outcome. Life expectancy went up and potentially avoidable mortality went down,”
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health, poverty, standard of living
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We need to focus more on mental-health care
… access to appropriate, effective mental-health care needs to be seen as a basic human right and component of a publicly funded health-care system. / People suffering mental illness were deinstitutionalized without necessary community supports, to be managed by law enforcement and ER staff who lack the skills and facilities to respond respectfully. / The article understates real-world factors (marginalization, social determinants, and access to competent help) that can thwart the potential impacts of even the most cutting-edge research.
Tags: budget, disabilities, homelessness, mental Health, poverty, rights
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Let residential school survivors share their stories
Angela Shisheesh… would like her harrowing story of abuse to be part of the historical record, accessible to the public like those of many of her fellow victims. Yet because she, like so many others, settled her legal case before 2006, it is up the organizations responsible for her maltreatment to determine whether her testimony can be made public… To deny her and other victims a voice amounts to a sort of cultural erasure, an important aspect of the residential schools’ terrible impact.
Tags: child care, ideology, Indigenous, mental Health, participation, youth
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‘I walked out and the world had transformed’: As CAMH remakes itself, patients feel the difference
TheStar.com – News/Insight – As walls come down and new buildings go up, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health is focusing on research and innovation, and changing how mental illness is viewed. Now, an anonymous $100-million donation will give the project a major boost. Jan. 13, 2018. By JOSEPH HALL, Feature Writer Tom Churchill lived a […]
Tags: Health, ideology, mental Health, participation, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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A donor is giving a record $100 million to CAMH — and doesn’t want to be named
The donation… will support the recruitment and retention of top scientists and encourage them to take chances with their research. “In order to enable quantum leaps forward, this gift will also support high-risk, high-reward research,” the donor said. The donation is by far the largest ever given to a mental health centre in Canada and one of only a handful of that magnitude bestowed on any health organization in the country.
Tags: Health, mental Health, philanthropy
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A broken system is harming those with mental illness
The SIU is investigating how a man suffering from schizophrenia was killed at a police station. “They have absolutely no tools and no awareness to deal with people with mental disability…” … This pattern of racialized, mentally ill men dying at the hands of police and corrections officers must stop. Our elected officials must be held to account for a broken system that releases to us our most vulnerable in body bags.
Tags: crime prevention, disabilities, mental Health, multiculturalism
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Now, more than ever, we need to solve Ontario’s health-care crisis of capacity
Our health-care system is simply too lean. Ontario needs more hospitals, more rehab facilities and more long-term-care beds. We need health-care professionals to staff all these new sites, plus ease shortages at the ones we already have. This will mean money… enthusiasm for new large expenditures will be limited. But we can’t deny reality.
Tags: budget, Health, mental Health, standard of living, tax
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The time has come for Ontario to pass Rowan’s Law and make sports safer for kids
Introduced by Kathleen Wynne’s government before Christmas, the bill would put Ontario ahead of other provinces in responding to emerging science around concussions. It includes protocol for the removal and return to sport of young athletes suspected to have concussions… there would be no excuse for letting this bill die and be resurrected only after the election.
Tags: disabilities, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, youth
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