Ontario Expanding Access to Mental Health Services in Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry in Eastern Ontario
NEWS
Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry — As part of Your Health: A Plan for Connected and Convenient Care, the Ontario government is connecting more Ontarians to mental health and addictions services by expanding and improving inter-professional primary care in Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry, with a special focus on mental health.
“This additional mental health funding of $618,666 is welcomed by our community in Stormont, Dundas & South Glengarry,” said Nolan Quinn, MPP for Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry. “Throughout the pandemic, we saw a deterioration of personal mental health, as well as addiction in the community. By providing extra resources, this will allow the local agencies to address the backlog created during the pandemic and to get those in need of help, the help they need.”
Providing over $8.5 million in dedicated mental health funding to the region’s 45 family health teams, five nurse practitioner-led clinics, 22 community health centres, and Indigenous primary health care organization is helping people better connect with the care they need, closer to home, in their own communities.
With this funding, the community health centres have been able to address backlogs and provide people with shorter wait times for mental health and addictions services.
- Rideau St. Lawrence Family Health Team: $84,100
- Glengarry Nurse Practitioner Led Clinic: $84,100
- Mohawk Council of Akwesasne: $114,066
- Seaway Valley Community Health Centre: $168,200
- Centre de santé communautaire de l’Estrie: $168,200
“Providing Ontarians with the right care in the right place is a pillar of the Your Health plan, and that includes expanding access to mental health and addiction care to connect people and their families to timely, convenient care, closer to home,” said Sylvia Jones, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health. “By continuing to build on our Roadmap to Wellness, we are making it easier and faster for individuals and families to connect to mental health and addictions supports with additional investments and innovative new programs.”
To make it faster and easier for young people to connect to mental health and substance use support, primary care, social services, and more, Ontario is also expanding the number of Youth Wellness Hubs by adding eight new hubs to the 14 that are already operating across the province. Youth Wellness Hubs are filling major gaps in care for youth substance use, concurrent disorders, and transition-aged youth by providing walk-in access to primary care and mental health and addictions services for people aged 12 to 25. These core clinical services are co-located within a range of other supports in the fields of education, employment, training, housing, and other community and social services.
QUOTES
“Over three years ago, we launched the Roadmap to Wellness to improve mental health and addiction services and provide better, more equitable support for patients and families in communities all across Ontario. We know that reaching out for mental health and/or substance abuse support is not easy, and that is why we are working to ensure that help is always there, when and where it is needed. To see that people of all ages can connect to the care they need, our government continues to make historic mental health and addictions investments like these as we build out Ontario’s recovery-oriented continuum of care.”
– Michael Tibollo, Associate Minister of Mental Health and Addictions
QUICK FACTS
- In 2020, Ontario released a strategy to build a world-class mental health and addictions system – Roadmap to Wellness: A Plan to Build Ontario’s Mental Health and Addictions System. Supported by a commitment to invest $3.8 billion over ten years, Roadmap is adding capacity to meet demand, filling gaps in the care continuum, and creating a provincial infrastructure for a mental health and addictions continuum of care that connects primary, community, and acute care to better wrap around the needs of people with mental health and addictions issues.
- In Budget 2023, Ontario is building on its historic $3.8 billion investment by providing an additional $425 million over three years. This investment will provide community-based mental health and addictions service providers funded by the Ministry of Health with a five per cent increase in base funding.
- Since 2019-20, the government has flowed $525 million in new base funding for mental health and addictions services and supports. This funding is supporting a range of services, including child and youth mental health, community-based addictions services, supportive housing, mental health and justice, and Indigenous mental health and addictions.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Office of Nolan Quinn, MPP Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry
Tel: 613-933-6513 TF: 1-800-514-9660
Email: nolan.quinn@pc.ola.org |