BC’s Representative for Children and Youth is disputing figures from the provincial government — over the amount of money spent on mental health programs.
The minister responsible — Stephanie Cadieux — claims $ 94 million are spent each year to address concerns.
But Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond isn’t buying that number.
“I think they spend closer to 70 million, not 94 million firstly… and secondly when someone comes in with a crisis, I like to think they go to the front of the line, but my experience as an advocate with individual cases is that they don’t… because in order to put someone at the front of the line, you have to actually do the assessment to see where they belong.”
Turpel-Lafond says she’s also in the process of completing a review of the services available to children and youth.
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