Calgary’s Mental Health and Addiction Strategy

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About Calgary's Mental Health and Addiction Strategy
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Resources for Calgarians
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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.
Being well - Wellness at home, at school, at work, and in the community
These actions support being well by:
- Help communities to become places where all people belong and support each other.
- 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.
- 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:
- Establish a coordinated network of mental health and addiction services so that people can easily get the help they need when they need it.
- Transform a system of early access to mental health and addiction services through schools.
- Transform a system of early access to mental health and addiction supports and services through workplaces.
- 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:
- Strengthen existing crisis supports.
- Transform how to respond to people and families in crisis and prevent future crises.