Canada Announces National Mental Health Strategy

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Announcing what The Lancet calls “the first-ever national mental health strategy,” Canada’s Mental Health Commission released “Changing Directions, Changing Lives,” a plan intended to fix a “fragmented and underfunded” mental health system.

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Kermit Cole
Kermit Cole is a licensed marriage and family therapist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He and his partner, Luisa Putnam, joined by their mutual interest in working with trauma and psychosis, studied Open Dialogue in Finland and Peer-supported Open Dialogue in the UK in order to practice and teach as a team. In 2011, they joined with Robert Whitaker to found the Mad in America website

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