Thank you, Mr. Chair. This amount, the reduction of the funds that are moving to Health and Social Services, are reflected in that inclusive schooling line. The funds were attached to positions that each education authority had for counsellors, and they were not fully trained counsellors, necessarily. For example, in the Tlicho, the Tlicho chose to hire art therapists rather than fully trained mental health counsellors. When we were originally planning, with Health and Social Services, a partnership to try to change the situation in terms of counselling available to youth, it was agreed and determined that it would be much more effective having fully trained counsellors in schools, under full clinical supervision of individuals who were trained counsellors, as well. That is the model that we have gone to here. In order to make that a more viable and more cost-effective endeavour, the funds that were allocated and provided to education authorities for counsellors are being shifted over to Health and Social Services to partly offset the implementation of the whole suite of counselling services that will be available to youth in schools and communities. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Ms. Haener on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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