Critics say Alberta’s mental health system disorganized and aimless

from FFWD Weekly

"In October 2008, then Alberta auditor general Fred Dunn told the government the way it cared for Alberta’s mentally ill was woefully inadequate. He found a lack of co-ordination between the many different provincial bodies that offered mental health care, no universal standards, gaps in care and significant barriers to access. The federal government had released its first comprehensive report on the national state of mental illness, Out of the Shadows at Last, only two years earlier, with very similar findings to Dunn’s.

"In 2007, the Canadian government responded to that comprehensive report by creating the Mental Health Commission of Canada, based in Calgary. In 2009, the provincial government responded to Dunn’s report with slightly less enthusiasm. …"

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