Ontario Mental Health

• Calls spike at helpline for first responders in Ontario as COVID-19 pandemic drags on

  Those calls are set to increase even further now that the charity has started offering its services to nurses, who've been under immense pressure during the pandemic.

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  Jun 4
• Ontario government spending $31M more for children, youth mental health services

  Health Minister Christine Elliott says the money will help improve access to specialized mental health services and shorten wait lists and wait times.

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  Jun 1
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• COVID-19: Doctors worry ‘social malnutrition’ is affecting kids as teen emergency visits rise

  Dr. Saba Merchant, a pediatrician in Vaughan, Ont., refers to the pandemic as a time of ``social malnutrition'' for some children.

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  Apr 14
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• ‘Kids are not all right’: Mental health among Ontario children deteriorating during COVID-19

  ``We found that roughly 70 per cent of children experienced deterioration of their mental health.''

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  Feb 2
• Ontario man denied government-funded mental health support for having ‘complex’ case

  Ontario Premier Doug Ford promised to look into the issue of people turned away from MindBeacon, a free virtual therapy service that recently received millions in provincial funding.

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  Oct 29, 2020
• Coronavirus: Ontario residents bracing for mental health crisis triggered by COVID-19, poll suggests

  The survey from the Ontario division of the Canadian Mental Health Association is the first in a series of three questionnaires meant to gauge the impact the outbreak and its various ripple effects will have on the way Ontario residents feel and behave.

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  May 11, 2020
• Virtual hangover? Lack of human interaction during coronavirus begins to wear Ontarians down

  "I'm over virtual hangouts and I want human interaction."

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  May 5, 2020
• Coronavirus: Ontario government expands virtual mental health services

  The expansion is a part of the $12 million the provincial government previously announced toward mental health services.

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  May 5, 2020
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• Coronavirus: Ontario invests $12M into mental health supports amid COVID-19 pandemic

  "We also know that mental and physical strain that our frontline workers and our first responders are facing," Ford continued. "They're working long hours, they see tragedy every single day, they're making really really tough decisions.

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  Apr 2, 2020
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• Ontario announces new $60M facility for brain and mental health at Sunnybrook

  The Garry Hurvitz Brain Sciences Centre will be built at Sunnybrook Health Science Centre in Toronto.

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  Nov 4, 2019