1. Better mental health care
By Alexandra Rud

2. Currently 1 in 5 Canadians experience mental health iSsUes
1 in 3 seek help
Psychological problems are up 70% of disability costs
People feel rushed through appointments
Lack of clear vision, strong governance, role clarity, resources, commitment to patient-centered care practitioner education
Anti-drug strategy released in 2007 emphasizes enforcement and abstinence based treatment
Globally there is 1 psychiatric nurse 100,000 population
63% of Canadian millennial safe at high risk for mental health issues

3. Solutions Start educating kids in schools
Have people take programs - create after school/evening programs, create an elective class,
Create more open facilities and more facilities – make more homes for people with mental illness, create more places that people can openly talk about their illness,

4. Educating kids in schools
Create a mandatory course for all 4 years of high school
Start teaching kids about mental illness earlier
If possible bring in people to talk about their condition
Bring in psychiatric nurses or doctors to talk
Make kids feel safe to get help
Start talking about mental illness more
Train kids on how to manage people or themselves with a mental illness
Teach how to recognize signs
Start encouraging schools to talk about mental health

5. Benefits
Kids would feel more comfortable talking about if they are having problems
Kids would know how to deal with mental health issues
More kids might find out that they are interested in becoming psychiatric nurse or doctor
Kids might feel as if they can talk to people if needed
People might start to understand that it’s not a bad thing to need help or to have a mental illness

6. Drawbacks Parents might not agree with taught material
Students might not want to learn about mental illness
Not Having the proper material
Not enough funding

7. Resources
uments/PrimaryCarePolicyFramework_March2016.pdf
pdf
strategy-canada
ever-are-at-high-risk-of-mental-health-issues/