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For Killam, charity begins at home |
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By Andrew Macdonald
allnovascotia.com
February 16, 2010
Killam Properties, metro's largest landlord, is subsidizing the rent for 31 tenants who have a mental illness ‐ at a cost of $135,000 this year.
CEO Phil Fraser made the announcement yesterday with officials from the Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia and Capital Health.
"We have placed people throughout our portfolio," said Fraser, noting some with mental illness can only afford to pay up to $540, because they can't work.
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Mental Illness Costs Economy Billions |
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By LINDA NGUYEN, Canwest News Service
February 18, 2010
Employees who take a leave of absence from work due to mental illness are seven times more likely to leave work again compared with co-workers who did not take time off, according to results from a three-year study released yesterday by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.
The study, which analyzed employment records of 10,000 people at a major Ontario corporation from 2003 to 2005, found those who needed time off because of a physical illness were twice as likely to take a second leave.
At times, absences related to mental illness could stretch for years.
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Learning to cope: Educating yourself key to dealing with mental illness |
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MONIQUE CHIASSON
The Truro Daily News
January 29, 2010
TRURO – Martha Rodler has come to expect people uttering “stupid” or “crazy” under their breath within her earshot.
She doesn’t approve of such rude actions, but she deals with it in a positive way.
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Family tried for months to get teen murder suspect psychiatric help |
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By STEVE BRUCE Court Reporter
Tue. Feb 9 - 4:54 AM
The family of a 17-year-old Middle Sackville boy charged with murdering a woman last Friday had been trying to get him psychiatric help for months, The Chronicle Herald has learned.
They had finally managed to get him an appointment for a psychiatric assessment at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax on Monday, sources close to the family said.
But something allegedly went horribly wrong before the boy could be assessed.
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Canadian public servants are sad - a situation a leading mental health expert says amounts to a "public health crisis." Public health workers, from nurses to police to bureaucrats, are suffering from depression at unprecedented rates, says Bill Wilkerson of Global Business and Economic Roundtable on Mental Health. Studies show that about 75 per cent of federal executives feel they are on the brink of burnout. Among public servants, mental health claims now account for 45 per cent of all disability claims. For his part, Wilderson blames public sector inertia and an ambiguous chain of command: "The public service is a tsunami of distractions - meetings, everything questioned, delegated, people moving ... and no one is really in charge. It's the most transient, fluid, unsettling work environment on the planet, so why wouldn't people be anxious and in distress?" PM Stephen Harper created the Mental Health Commission to develop a national mental health strategy. |
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