City staff and community partners got a resounding vote of confidence on their plan to roll out an alternative to 911 for calls about mental health issues, but some worry that a year is too long to wait for the new service.
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There are several reasons Fabiola Philippe’s anxiety and depression went undetected and untreated in the years before her tragic death in the summer of 2017, and her sister and daughter are trying to fix a few of them.
One is that Philippe never told her family she had visited a hospital emergency department seeking help a number of times. Another is that they saw addiction, but not its causes. While a third is that the health-care system didn’t deliver the help she needed, Marie Remy says.
She is determined to prevent more outcomes like what happened to Philippe, who died after being hit by highway traffic after a partner let her out of the car they were travelling in on the night of Canada’s 150th anniversary.