Mental health
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- Negotiate the Canada Health Accord to prioritize expansion of mental health and rehabilitation services, among other things.
- Establish a national mental health strategy and suicide prevention strategy.
- Fund organizations offering LGBTQI2+ youth mental health programmes.
Establish a national mental health strategy and a suicide prevention strategy to address the growing anxieties plaguing Canadians regarding inequality and affordability, the growing precariousness of work and housing, the climate crisis, social isolation, resurgent racial and ethno-nationalism and other harms and risks.
Establish a funding program within Health Canada to support community-based organizations offering targeted LGBTQI2+ youth’s mental health and well-being programs, including suicide prevention, peer support, coming out, and counselling.
From Election Platform 2019, retrieved 2019-09-22.