Thank you for your questions.
Immigrants and refugees to Canada are at a higher risk of experiencing poverty as well as at a higher risk of experiencing homelessness and mental health sequelae, both from the experiences that brought them to Canada as well as from the difficulties in adjusting to Canada.
Easy access to mental health supports is instrumental for these communities, as are the other strategies that we talked about for combatting poverty and enabling social inclusion. Better access to treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder and better access to structured psychotherapies that are culturally informed and that are working are key. It is also key that we prepare our workforce, our mental health workers, to give them the cultural competency they need. We also need to use a variety of approaches, including approaches that are informed by anti-racism and anti-oppression frameworks of practice, so that we see people we work with as equal partners in recovery.