Understanding the current state of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) within the crisis line sector is essential to enhancing accessibility and acceptability of crisis line services for all. Through an intersectional lens, we examined 9-8-8 crisis line workers' personal and work demographics, ...
About 62% of these advisories have lasted for more than a year (i.e., long-term advisories), with some First Nations living under advisories for decades. For example, after a 25 years of Canada’s longest boil-water advisory, the residents ofNestantaga Frist Nationin northern Ontario were...
A key issue is the continued limited government funding for mental health, especially prevention. The2019 federal budgetprioritizes mental health literacy, harm reduction treatments for opioid use and a suicide crisis hotline. Because70 percent of adults with mental health issuesbegin experiencing sympto...
Ernie & Joe: Crisis Copsfollows two police officers with the San Antonio Texas Police Department who are diverting people away from jail and into mental health treatment, one 911 call at a time. ABOUT ERNIE & JOE: CRISIS COPS is an intimate portrait of two Texas police officers who are hel...
Fentanyl is a powerful opioid anesthetic and analgesic, the use of which has caused an increasing public health threat in the United States and elsewhere. Fentanyl was initially approved and used for the treatment of moderate to severe pain, especially cancer pain. However, recent years have seen...
Saying thank you is nice. Acting in gratitude is even nicer. We have a special emotional support hotline for our essential workers. And we are also going to direct all insurers to waive any cost-sharing, co-pay deductibles for mental health services for essential workers, which means the me...
The Ontario government didn’t answer my questions, despite promising that it would. Staff eventually stopped responding to my emails. However, both the B.C. government and Health Canada replied. Neither answered my two simple yes-or-no questions, either ignoring or deflecting them. ...
back and load up the cart again only to return the horses back to their stall at the end of the day. Each day during lunch, my grandmother would walk from school midday to meet him on Ontario street while they ate their lunch and he filled up pails of water for his horses to drink...
Several informants also highlighted that it is impossible to afford a healthy diet and adequate shelter when on social assistance in Ontario, and that people on welfare are far below the official poverty line in Ontario. This is why a provincial Commission for the Review of Social Assistance in...
Fischer compared opioid prescribing rates in Ontario, Canada to those in Germany, and found that in Germany, just 4.5 percent of the total population reported using prescription opioids. In just one Canadian province, 20 percent of the population reported using them. The rate is higher in the ...