By Tyler Marr

Mental health

Mental health recovery teams launch in North Battleford, across province

Feb 5, 2019 | 4:59 PM

Eight new mental health teams have been launched in Saskatchewan to support people living with complex and persistent mental health challenges.

The Saskatchewan Health Authority said the Community Recovery Teams use a holistic, team-based approach to help clients manage their symptom, avoid hospitalization and thrive as members of the community.

“The interdisciplinary team approach allows for comprehensive and customized care plans that are centred around the client,” Executive Director of Mental Health and Addictions Colleen Quinlan said.

The model, she said, allows the teams to be flexible, responsive and to provide support when and where clients need it most.

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“If people get stabilized in their own environment, in their own community, they stay well longer,” Michelle Robson, manager for mental health and addictions services said, adding how the move could reduce wait times for mental health services.

“It will free up the current case managers to be able to do some more work with their less intense and less complex cases,” she said.

The teams – being rolled out in North Battleford, Prince Albert, Saskatoon, Regina, Swift Current, Moose Jaw, Yorkton and Weyburn – are receiving $4.2 million from the federal and provincial governments.

The money is from the Canada-Saskatchewan Bilateral Funding Agreement, which, will see the province recieve nearly $350 million over 10 years for “targeted incremental investments in home and community care and mental health and addiction services.”

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