Calgary’s Mental Health and Addiction Strategy

A COMMUNITY OF CONNECTIONS Calgary’s Mental Health and Addiction Strategy

Calgary’s Mental Health and Addiction Strategy brings together community partners to offer hope and strengthen support for individuals and families facing mental health and addiction challenges.

Three pillars of the strategy

The Strategy has three pillars: Being Well, Getting Help, and Staying Safe. Being Well fosters wellbeing in community and increases understanding of mental health and addictions to reduce stigma; Getting Help prioritizes community supports through increased access and navigation to services, when and where people need them; and Staying Safe supports crisis response and crisis recovery that increases safety for all.

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Being well - Wellness at home, at school, at work, and in the community

These actions support being well by:
 
  1. Help communities to become places where all people belong and support each other.
  2. Share information in schools and in the community to help people understand what mental health and addiction are and how to support themselves and others.
  3. Promote approaches to positive mental health in workplaces.

Getting help - What you need, when, where, and how you need it

The Strategy helps Calgarians with getting help by:
 
  1. Establish a coordinated network of mental health and addiction services so that people can easily get the help they need when they need it.
  2. Transform a system of early access to mental health and addiction services through schools.
  3. Transform a system of early access to mental health and addiction supports and services through workplaces.
  4. Build capacity of local organizations to meet the mental health and addiction needs in the community through convening around common actions.

Staying safe - Security at all times, especially in a crisis

The Strategy supports Calgarians with staying safe by:
 
  1. Strengthen existing crisis supports.
  2. Transform how to respond to people and families in crisis and prevent future crises.

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