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Improving ACCESS To Mental Healthcare

Guess what…sanity should not be a luxury!

Derek London
6 min readJun 30, 2021
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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…

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Derek London
Derek London

Written by Derek London

Editor for Diogenes Lounge. Writer for ILLUMINATION and a YouTube personality. Subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHBpAoID8i6tqz6ksLSY8ow

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