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Tailor immigrant and refugee mental health services for culture, language, report urges

October 18th, 2016 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized

syrian-refugeesStudy from Mental Health Commission of Canada warns that costs for crisis care could spike

Canada must match its multicultural, open-door immigration policy with tailored mental health services or face inflated costs for crisis care down the road, warns a new report being released today. The sweeping study by the Mental Health Commission of Canada, obtained by CBC News, finds that immigrants generally arrive with better mental health than the Canadian-born population — something referred to as the “healthy immigrant effect.”  Read the rest of this article at CBC…

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