Status of Women committee  First of all, I'm confused about the question regarding emergency services. I don't recall saying that in my introduction.

Status of Women committee  It was 12 psychiatrists in the country, not two psychiatrists, as well. There's a correction there.

Status of Women committee  I think what we would say is that we need long-term residential treatment programs across the country, not just in Ontario. We need them for adolescents and we need them for adults. They need to be treated in the same way as we treat long-term residential or sheltered living acco

Status of Women committee  I think one of the challenges is even considering that it might be an eating disorder. There is this misperception that it happens to white upper middle-class teenage girls, and it's actually an equal opportunity illness. It can happen to new immigrants. It can happen in all race

Status of Women committee  I would like to add as a psychiatrist that it's impossible to graduate as a psychiatrist and not have treated someone with schizophrenia or a mood disorder. It's certainly possible to graduate today as a psychiatrist and never have treated an eating disorder. It's possible to be

Status of Women committee  Yes, there aren't any really. There are two beds in Homewood.

Status of Women committee  Not...[Technical Difficulty—Editor] We don't track that. There's no research to look into that, and it's almost impossible to figure out a way to get funded for that kind of research.

Status of Women committee  No, there is not.

Status of Women committee  A registry that tracked patients identified with eating disorders, for an unfortunate death, or recovery, or any kind of data that a registry, say, like the cancer registry, could track, but for eating disorders, would immediately improve the state of affairs.

Status of Women committee  It's twofold. Sure, it's about money, but it's also about discrimination. When there is money that is sent to child and adolescent mental health, whether that's federal or provincial, we always look.... Eating disorders are always listed, but when the money gets to the mental hea

Status of Women committee  First of all, it would be great if we even had outpatient programming for them. Many of these women leave in-patient intensive services and go to nothing, so anything we could do, even weekly visits, would be better. Certainly, we could do other things, such as working with them

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. I think we've been overtaken by this panic around obesity. There is apparently an obesity epidemic. As far as I can tell, though, the rate of obesity in children is essentially a flat line. In fact, recent data from the United States suggests that in the younger gro

Status of Women committee  That's a big question. I guess what I would say is that girls and women with eating disorders are entitled to the same standards of care they would be entitled to if they had any other mental health disorder. There should be guidelines in place. There should be treatment options

Status of Women committee  Absolutely.

Status of Women committee  I think the federal government could support such initiatives. Sheena's Place is funded right now through donations. They don't currently have much access to government funding. What they do provide are groups. They do provide the funding for the therapists who provide the grou