What are the challenges—and what does Canada’s new mental health strategy have to say about it?
Canada’s first-ever national mental health strategy was released on May 8, 2012, after five years of extensive consultations across the country. Changing Directions, Changing Lives [opens to PDF] represents a blueprint for change and provides six strategic directions.
The Strategy focuses on improving mental health and well-being for all people living in Canada and on creating a mental health system that can truly meet the needs of people of all ages living with mental health problems and illnesses—and their families.
What are the challenges faced by families facing mental illness in a child or parent? And what does Canada’s new mental health strategy have to say about it?
We speak with Jane Duval, executive director of the British Columbia Schizophrenia Society. May 24 is Schizophrenia Awareness Day.
