In answering Mr. Beaulieu’s question earlier this week, I did state that I will be coming forward in the next business plan — which is coming up pretty quickly here, as soon as we get out of the budget session — a plan that will relook at re-profiling mental health and addictions workers as well as community wellness workers in the entire plan we have. Right now we’re spending $7 million for about 70 positions to deliver this program. As I’ve seen, in a community like Fort McPherson I think we could do a better job of making these positions not so stovepiped, where everyone has their job descriptions and sometimes are not really
able to help people in need with addictions services or counselling in a very holistic and more of a multi-dimensional way. So I am revising that, and I hope to bring forward a new proposal for the Members of Social Programs to look at and the Assembly as a whole.