Deb
Matthews,
Dated:
Ministry
of Health and Long-Term Care
10th
Floor, Hepburn Block
80
Grosvenor Street
Toronto,
Ontario M7A 2C4
Tel
416-327-4300
Fax
416-327-3679
Re:
funding for mental health sector,
Dear
Madam,
It is
fast becoming common knowledge that ten percent or more of the World
population suffers from one form of mental illness or another. To help
bring the magnitude of the scope to your attention this sector includes
allzimers, schizophrenia, depression, anxiety disorder, bipolar,
personality disorders, substance addiction, obsessive compulsive
disorder just to mention the most predominant in our society.
It
has come to my attention that world leaders all have installed programs
to look after the people in question and we Canadians whom pride
ourselves on instilling peace and humanity for mankind do not
acknowledge the requirement in our government. Canada is the only G8
country without a National Mental Health Policy and this needs to be
rectified.
Please
comprehend that the purpose of this writing is to inform you that I am
requesting you to make a change in this shortcoming by launching a
Policy full force, providing the funding which is not reaching our
mental health provisions on a municipal level. In light that more than
10 percent of the population suffer these conditions and, if you add
one family member to that it becomes 20 percent, if two family members
are struggling that makes 30 percent and so on not to mention the spin
off ailments the stress of blindly caring for loved ones produces and
again taxes the finances of the coffers. The affected people of this
Country encourage you to direct funds to the municipalities in order to
get a handle on the problem at a root level rather than to allow it to
compound out of control. The best way to do this is to allot additional
funding into the Family Education and Assistance programs in order to
get help to the front lines.
These
municipalities are struggling against insurmountable forces, forced to
put most every bit of resources into treatment which is necessary,
however, a necessity also lies in providing family education to the
loved ones of the afflicted. The government has recognised that it is
in their best interest to assist the aging to remain in their own homes
as opposed to institutions for as long as possible to lessen the stress
on the system financially, and so should a model of similarity be
adopted with the mental health system. If the system is not willing to
give mental health the vaccine or otherwise teach family members to
deal with the illness on a fundamental level, then through a
predictable course the system will continue to be inundated in a
perpetuation of the nature of the illness and lack of provision.
With
Enlightenment I Remain,
.
.
signed
address
Cc: Honourable M.P.,
Honourable M.P.P.,
Mayor,