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The action plan, touted by the province as shaping priorities and setting direction, will focus on five key areas, including evidence-based, data-driven services, service access and co-ordination, substance use and recovery, population health and wellness and service governance and accountability.
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“Over the years it’s been really clear in our community there’s a great need for mental health services,” Nancy Heinrichs, executive director of NorWest Co-op Community Health said in a press conference on Monday. “The demand continues to grow. We’ve experienced a 500% increase in requests for mental health counselling from January 2020 to March 2021. The main presenting problems of people walking through our door, or recently onto our screen, are around anxiety and depression.”
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Publishing date: May 27, 2021 • 2 days ago • 2 minute read • Arlene Last-Kolb, whose son Jessie died from a fentanyl overdose in July 2014, holds a one-person rally in front of the Manitoba Legislative Building in Winnipeg to raise overdose awareness on Wed., May 26, 2021. KEVIN KING/Winnipeg Sun/Postmedia Network Photo by KEVIN KING /Kevin King/Winnipeg Sun
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Overdose Awareness Manitoba is calling on the province to act on a petition with more than 5,000 signatures they delivered to the Legislature.
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Posted: Mar 02, 2021 3:11 PM CT | Last Updated: March 2
People inside a bus shack in front of the University of Winnipeg in February. The province has announced $2.5 million in funding to help homeless Winnipeggers. (John Einarson/CBC)
The Manitoba Non-Profit Housing Association is getting more than $2.5 million in provincial funding for projects to help Winnipeggers who are homeless, or at risk of becoming homeless, get stable housing and wraparound services.
The funding, announced by the province Tuesday, will go toward providing stable housing and services for 250 individuals. Those services could include addictions treatment, mental health treatment, emergency meal services, reconnections to family and other social supports, and referrals for education upgrades or employment.
General signs of addiction are lack of control or inability to stay away from a substance or behaviour, decreased socialization, such as abandoning commitments or ignoring relationships and ignoring risk factors, like sharing needles despite potential consequences. One can be addicted to many things such as gambling, chocolate, sex, the internet, shopping, food, work tattoos, alcohol or drugs just to name a few. A statement was provided by the province’s Official Opposition Critic for Mental Health and Addictions Doyle Vermette. With the shocking news that Saskatchewan saw more than one overdose death per day in the month of January, the NDP Critic for Mental Health and Addictions Doyle Vermette released the following statement: