Status of Women committee  Sure. Thank you for the question. I think of it in two directions. One direction is that if we think about where people seek help when they are dealing with emotional health or mental health problems, we want to be thinking about how that care is tailored to the needs of specifi

Status of Women committee  Absolutely, it was me. I take responsibility for those comments. I want to recognize that the government has actually tried to address a lot of these issues. It has these calls for funding, calls for proposals, and community agencies take those and develop programs. Sometimes th

Status of Women committee  Thank you for that question. I appreciate the opportunity to say that.... I think the technology that Blue Guardian has is very exciting. It's essentially an alert system, which we didn't have, and a window into young people's experience that we didn't have before and that would

Status of Women committee  Thank you for that question. My first thoughts are that, as I said in my remarks, we want to take advantage of the wisdom that's available within communities, which means a local focus. I would wonder about methods to really fund people who are closer to the site in terms of the

Status of Women committee  Thank you for the invitation to present to this committee. I'm speaking from my experience as a social worker in the mental health care system and as a researcher in mental health with an emphasis on issues that affect women of colour and LGBT+ communities. I anticipate that ot