Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My final supplementary is, you know, you -- we see that the risks of suicide, depression, our dropout rates are higher in the small communities. We know that we hear about -- like, kids with addictions at a way younger age in the small communities that's -- because there's nothing to do. We're not providing with prevention tools. And I mentioned this to the Minister before is we don't have nurses in the community that are focusing on health promotion, health prevention. And I think that we need to start looking at different ways of doing business in our health prevention and especially in the small communities. You know, we have public health nurses, community health nurses, home care nurses in our bigger centres. But I think if we start looking at focusing on hiring a nurse, we could have a new grad. I went into being public health pretty much out of school, you know. So it's not something that you need to have all this emergency trauma training. You could go into the communities and be hired into your community and work with the students and work with the elders. You already know them. And this takes the time -- they're focused on health promotion, health prevention. Leave the chins to be working on the -- you know, the emergency nursing and clinics and things like that that they're trained for, just like we do in the regional centres. And I think maybe if we start focusing more on prevention that maybe we can start to turn a corner. And I'm just wondering if the Minister will commit to even entertaining this idea. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Lesa Semmler on Question 1159-19(2): Mental Health and Suicide Prevention
In the Legislative Assembly on October 13th, 2022. See this statement in context.
Question 1159-19(2): Mental Health and Suicide Prevention
Oral Questions
October 13th, 2022
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