Brain C-13 Review
Something needs to be Brain C-13 Review done but there's nothing that us, mere mortals, can do. It must be something that comes from above, and by this I mean the Government who's so far let the agencies do whatever they please as long as they keep trouble away from it. Basically it's a consequence of liberalism (which I'm not against). The government letting the market regulate itself. The problem with this is that the market isn't a lone entity on its own. It needs its components to make it work, such as people, products or services. When you disregard the components that make the system work, then you have a system that is not working the way it is intended to nor is serving the purpose it was created for.
As with a lot of other things, the problem is money; or the lack of it. If there's no money the system has no means to continue its existence. If there's little money, the system can keep functioning but in a crippled fashion. Going back to the components, human beings in this case, they have been left out of the equation. Actually, what's been left out is the "human being" part since they still represent money for the system. Not as capital, but as a loss of it. So getting people out of the Mental Health Care System is top priority to stop the losses.
This is basically the picture right now. Meanwhile, while referrals are at an all time low RTFs are struggling to stay on budget, forced to decrease staff to client ratios to keep FTEs down which impacts service delivery; also slashing budgets on supplies and food, and at the same time being unable to expand its programs to increase their income. What looks like is that a particular segment of the Mental Health Care System is being impacted (teenagers) while the others children (specially with autism) and adults seem to be flourishing despite the economic recession.
