Community counselling is a key community-level component of the continuum of mental health and addictions treatment. We have, as I’ve indicated, community counsellors in 19 of the communities in all the regions of the Northwest Territories, and where we don't have them in individual communities, we do have telephone counselling and fly-in services that are available. We want to continue to provide these services. We have actually developed new guidelines that our community counsellors can use when assessing and providing treatment, and when individuals are in immediate or crisis situations, we are able to get immediate access or connections to community counsellors. This is an area that we are always looking at. We want to make sure that, across the Northwest Territories, our residents have access. In total, we have 64 community counsellor positions providing these incredibly valuable services to the residents of the Northwest Territories.
Glen Abernethy on Question 61-18(2): Alcohol Addiction And Mental Health Treatment Options
In the Legislative Assembly on February 25th, 2016. See this statement in context.
Question 61-18(2): Alcohol Addiction And Mental Health Treatment Options
Oral Questions
February 24th, 2016
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