Thank you.
I read a story last night about a business professional who had mental health issues and didn't get help. He really fell through the system, if you will, and he fell, and he fell, and he fell until he was on the street.
I jotted down some notes and I'll quickly read them: “Poverty creates barriers to accessing resources that people with mental illness need for recovery. For people predisposed to mental illness, losing stabilizing resources like home and income can increase risk factors for mental illness or relapse. It disrupts education and career path and diminishes opportunities for employment. No employment, no income, mental illness, chronic poverty.”
As a committee, we're looking for innovative ways or a new strategy to suggest to government, something innovative. We use innovation a lot.
I'm going to ask Mr. Mantler and maybe Kelly, Ricardo, Michael, Lubna, to tell me some innovative ways of thinking that you've seen over the last few years that we could use as a federal government to help in this crisis.