Manitoba government to spend $4.7 million on new addictions treatment spots – Winnipeg | 24CA News
The Manitoba authorities introduced funding to deliver practically 750 new habit therapy spots to northern and rural Manitoba.
Mental Health and Community Wellness Minister Janice Morley-Lecomte says the $4.7 million for the brand new spots is a part of the federal government’s promise to create 1,000 publicly funded therapy areas.
“Access to addictions treatment and services can be especially challenging in rural and northern communities,” she stated in a Thursday press launch.
According to the discharge, the funding will deliver as much as 125 areas to Brandon, 125 areas to Selkirk, 75 areas in Flin Flon and 400 areas in Thompson.
The funding will even see Willard Monson House in Ste. Rose du Lac increase their ladies’s therapy beds by 24.
The money will even go towards 60 program areas by means of the Recovery Education for Addictions and Complex Trauma program in Brandon and 26 short-term restoration housing areas in Brandon and Thompson.
The introduced spots are to incorporate mattress and mobile-based therapy companies, medical spots within the Flin Flon hospital and day programming.
Raj Sewda, CEO of the Northern Health Region, stated the funding will give these needing therapy care nearer to house.
“This investment for new medical withdrawal management beds and opiate agonist treatment at the Flin Flon General Hospital will provide northern residents with this much-needed service,” he stated.
The announcement additionally contains $800,000 for Brandon to ascertain a Flexible Assertive Community Treatment crew, which might see community-based psychiatric therapy and rehab for these with psychological well being points.
The FACT crew would serve roughly 360 folks in Prairie Mountain Health yearly, the discharge stated.
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