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The Nova Scotia government is in negotiations with an organization that would provide community-led, non-police crisis response services for mental health and addictions calls.
The Nova Scotia government is working toward allowing private mental health practitioners to provide publicly insured services and some of their representatives say that should be the beginning of further reforms.
Over a period of five years, Laureen Rushton estimates her son, Lucas, tried accessing mental health services at least 50 times. Nothing seemed to work, which is why Rushton is now pushing the Nova Scotia government to open walk-in mental health clinics, separate from emergency departments.