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Improving ACCESS To Mental Healthcare
Guess what…sanity should not be a luxury!
If you follow my content, you know I’ve been discussing mental health and illness in a big way. These explorations are more or less framed around a book I read recently on the subject. I learned quite a bit, and today, I wanted to address a problem that has plagued psychiatry since the very beginning: What can be done to improve access to mental health services?
I’ve detailed a few initiatives in past works, but in this one I wanted to speak specifically about a program that has been rolled out here in Canada with tremendous success.
ACCESS Open Minds
The book I alluded to was just published on May 4th. It’s called We Can Do Better by David Goldbloom. I was gifted an advanced reading copy of it and invited to review it. So if you’d like to entertain my official response to the book, watch this:
Enter AOM, which stands for ACCESS Open Minds. AOM is one of the most generously funded healthcare projects in Canadian history focussing on…
