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Publishing date: May 24, 2021 • 1 hour ago • 3 minute read • Members of the youth Spoken Hope advisory committee Janessa Labadie, left, and Maura Cook pose in 2019 in the vault at the former-CIBC-branch site for Sarnia-Lambton s Access Open Minds youth mental health facility. Officials are targeting January 2022 to have the site renovated and ready to open. (Submitted) jpg, SO
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A mental health hub for 12- to 25-year-olds planned by Access Open Minds in downtown Sarnia is estimated to cost $2.5 million.
The former CIBC bank branch renovation project recently went out for tender, and a contract is expected to be awarded by around the end of June, said Kathy Alexander, chairperson of the committee for the pending facility.
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A mental health and addictions crisis exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic has driven up wait lists and compounded the complexity of people’s suffering, a group of health-care providers said Thursday.
Easing the “crisis within a crisis” means the provincial government needs to move faster on its 10-year $3.8-billion mental health and addictions plan announced in 2020, said Addictions and Mental Health Ontario CEO Adrienne Spafford.
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“The plan is there,” she said. “We need to see it implemented much, much faster.”
More money to hire more psychotherapists and counsellors, so hours can be expanded and months-long backlogs can be reduced, is critical, said Paula Reaume-Zimmer, vice-president of mental health and addictions with Bluewater Health and the Lambton-Kent Canadian Mental Health Association branch.