Mental health, addiction, suicide prevention standards introduced in Canada
An Ottawa-based non-profit that helped develop Canada’s long-term care standards now wants to set national guidelines for mental health and addictions treatmentand suicide prevention.
The suicide prevention standard, for example, requires mental healthteams to be trained on routine screening and assessing of suicide risk and for policymakers to develop programs and build the workforce to implement them. Carole Ann Alloway, who represents the HSO through her experience as a patient and caregiver for her ill husband, said the challenge will be ensuring that all provinces and territories use the standards that are meant to ensure consistency in services regardless of where people live.
The federal government was also set to announce national standards this year for the same issues. They were created by the Standards Council of Canada but will now be announced in 2024 “due to larger than anticipated stakeholder interest” and staff training, Mental Health and Addictions Minister Carolyn Bennett said in an emailed response.
They are expected to help formalize what people can expect in terms of the timeliness of care across the country, Health Canada said in unveiling the initiative in March 2022. Gill, who is now an outreach worker at a high school, said youth who are in distress often have to wait too long to see a psychiatrist, and in her case it took three months to get an appointment.
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