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Mar 17, 2021 2:17 PM
Health Minister Dorothy Shephard said her priorities will be to work on crisis and near-crisis mental health services. (Photo: Stephanie Sirois)
There are plenty of questions for the government about the new budget especially in terms of the nearly $7 million invested in mental health initiatives across different departments.
Addiction and mental health services will receive $3 million as well as $539,000 for the Canadian Mental Health Association BounceBack Program which is intended to support adults and youth 15 years old with depression, anxiety, stress and worry.
Another $350,000 is directed to support recommendations from the Psychologists’ Resource Strategy for critical shortages in the mental health services sector including “shortages of psychologists in schools, within community mental health teams, and in hospitals.”
Posted: Mar 16, 2021 7:00 AM AT | Last Updated: March 16
Kim Crevatin and her mother lined up with dozens of others on Saturday, Feb. 27, to get in to the Moncton Hospital. It had been nearly two months since they were able to visit her father, who is in hospital waiting for a nursing home bed.(Vanessa Blanch/CBC)
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