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Local Musician Continues Crowdfunding Campaign for New Mental Wellness Centre
ARICHAT - As the month of November - annually recognized as Men's Mental Health Month - draws to a close, two Cape Breton men in very different life stations are doing what they can to provide mental health services to people across the island.
TELILE 24/7's annual Men's Mental Health Month special begins with a return visit from the province's first-ever Mental Health and Addictions Minister, Brian Comer, a former paramedic now serving as the MLA for Cape Breton East, who was tagged by Premier Tim Houston as the first person to serve in the newly-created Mental Health and Addictions portfolio shortly after Houston's Progressive Conservatives took power fifteen months ago.
Having already introduced virtual-care pilot projects to allow greater access to mental health services at St. Martha's Regional Hospital in Antigonish and the Cape Breton Regional Hospital in Sydney, Comer's department has just introduced a new Mental Health Day Hospital at the CBRH, modelled after a similar facility in Halifax. Designed to cut down on wait times and provide short-term treatment prior to discharge from the hospital, Comer is hopeful that the day-hospital model could be expanded to the Strait Area if it proves successful in Sydney.
Meanwhile, a longtime musician from Louisdale is continuing his crowdfunding campaign to build Richmond County's first-ever Mental Wellness Centre. In addition to sharing some of his original music as part of the TELILE 24/7 Men's Mental Health Month special, Tyler Shea provides an update to his GoFundMe campaign, which has attracted $855 of its goal of $50,000 since it was launched this past spring.
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