“But we’re in a funding desert in child and youth mental health. It is so parched and dry that if you throw a thimbleful — or even a cupful — of water, it’s going to quickly absorb and stay dry.”
Damn that quote strikes home.
Damn that quote strikes home.
https://twitter.com/marshamcleod_/status/1390476113265242118
As I’ve tweeted about before, we’ve seen the same increase in Eating Disorders in Saskatchewan. @AyishaKurji and @hinz_tamara have done a lot of advocacy around this recently and over the last few months.
But what struck me (among other things in that article) was the description of how tough it was when they temporarily collapsed the Eating Disorder unit until the general child psych unit.
Because we’ve been managing our explosion WITHOUT an eating disorder unit at baseline!
Because we’ve been managing our explosion WITHOUT an eating disorder unit at baseline!
And requests to create one (either an inpatient one or a step-down one) have been thus far declined.
Beyond eating disorders, though, we’ve seen an increase across the board.
If you want to know how busy things are in the mental health ward, just ask my colleagues in ER.
There are many nights that the children’s ER is mostly a mental health unit.
If you want to know how busy things are in the mental health ward, just ask my colleagues in ER.
There are many nights that the children’s ER is mostly a mental health unit.
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