I think a lot of the vision or the goals that Legal Aid's mental health strategy is driving towards would also be goals that you could achieve by following some of the recommendations I'm making here today. For example, that strategy identifies the value in having continuity of legal representation of a client. If the person representing you is constantly changing, you have to tell your story over and over again. That's traumatizing in and of itself. Also, someone who's able to follow you through the system is better able to help pick you up when you falter. They know your story already. They know what has or hasn't worked in the past. They know the barriers that you face.
By having a sort of coherent or better-defined system, you get those kinds of benefits that come along with it. Similarly, I think by investing in these kinds of programs, you would give them much more permanence. It becomes a lot easier to plan for this stuff and to help grow these programs, as opposed to just letting them live as these little vestigial efforts.
I think if you read that report, a lot of what's in there in terms of vision and goals would be the same sorts of things that these reforms could drive towards.