Health committee  It's a very good point. I think the Mental Health Commission of Canada has done a lot of work to get the workplace mental health standards into place. I think there was research in developing them, and I think because they are there, implementing them as best practices would be w

Health committee  Thank you for enlightening me about that study. I'm in the role of CAMI, so I'm not speaking on behalf of my own organization. In that sense, we wouldn't have a position or understanding, but our overall understanding would be that the federal government, whether it be with new i

Health committee  If there's a direct responsibility of the federal government to provide services, then no, I don't think we'd be in opposition to that.

Health committee  I think, with the $50 million, we would be looking for that to flow through the Mental Health Commission of Canada, and CAMI would be looking at the expertise of the national plan and the action plan to move that forward.

Health committee  I think in this recommendation CAMI members were looking more at the mental health piece. At home/Chez Soi is looking more at concurrent disorders and then looking at social determinants of health. That's a larger upstream issue that I think needs addressing as well, but for this

Health committee  I can't speak as an expert on each At Home program across Canada. I think in different programs the mental health piece may be stronger, but the backbone and the driver behind At Home/Chez Soi was the recognition that much of what was exasperating a person's mental health or ment

Health committee  I have to look at my panel because I'm not aware of any in-depth research. Dave.

Health committee  Thank you very much for the questions. Speaking on behalf of the Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health, CAMIMH has been very supportive of the #308conversations. I think that any movement in the sense of educating people about mental illness and mental health is

Health committee  It's five years.

Health committee  Yes. That's a very good point. As the national government has provided national leadership in developing a national plan for mental health, each of the provinces and territories has really looked internally at how they're going to address that. At this point with the federal gov

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you for the opportunity to present to this committee. My name is Fred Phelps. I'm the executive director of the Canadian Association of Social Workers. The CASW is a proud organization in the Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health, b