I am learning unconfirmed reports today that front line #mentalhealth workers in Ontario are being redeployed to work in other areas due to pandemic related staff shortages. I believe this is unacceptable. We need all the resources we can due to unprecedented demand.
Other services should be redeployed to mental health. Not the other way around. It makes no sense to send a trained therapist to become a screener or a trauma therapy trained nurse to work outside of where they are needed. It causes harm.
I often wonder if it were the other way around, if all of us working in #mentalhealth were in a crisis and short of resources, would the systems and organizations we work in have our backs?
I recognize difficult policy decisions are being made. I appreciate those trying to lead through a crisis, however, systemic discrimination and biases against those with mental illness will always be at the table unless we call them out and dismantle structural forms of stigma.
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