Certainly there's community-based mental health care provided by NGOs or charities such as ours. Some of our areas do clinical work. We don't do clinical here in P.E.I., but there's also providing the support to leverage that. As I said, sending people to emerg or to their GP is not the answer to get continuing care. You can go through the wait times to see a psychiatrist or a psychologist, but when your next appointment is in a month or six weeks, what happens in that in-between time? How are you getting support? How are you doing well?
The services that we provide, and that other agencies like ours provide, give that opportunity to have that ongoing support. There's peer support from people who have lived experience who can support you. They've not exactly walked in your shoes, but they can help you out. We have social rehabilitation services to help people meet others who are challenged. We offer housing, education, employment and life skills.
All those pieces come together to help people become more resilient. They have more tools in their tool box about how to better cope with depression, anxiety or whatever issue they are struggling with.