Ottawa ponies up cash for mental-health programs
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TWO Manitoba mental health programs got a federal cash injection Friday.
Carolyn Bennett, the federal mental health and addictions minister, flew to Winnipeg to hold a news conference at Newcomers Employment and Education Development Services Inc., a newcomer and refugee support centre on Notre Dame Avenue.
The centre, as well as The Pas Family Resource Centre, were each awarded $1.325 million.
The Winnipeg centre will use the cash to bolster its support program for Syrian refugee children and their parents.
N.E.E.D.S. will scale up programming to include older children and youth, on top of “trauma-informed” training meant for the people who deliver the services.
CEO Margaret von Lau said conflicts like the war in Ukraine and unrest in Afghanistan, cause undue stress on the people who’ve fled.
“The future is unknown, you start panicking and feeling that you are losing control of your life — you often escape, leave an unsafe place and become a refugee,” von Lau said.
“The new challenges emerge in language barriers — very often, a different culture, a new surrounding, and the weather… practically everything is different.”
Von Lau said stress, anxiety and depression are among the challenges newcomers and refugees face.
Bennett said mental health supports for newcomers and other marginalized people need to be culturally appropriate.
“If you can listen without judgment, then you are creating a safe space for that person to talk and a safe space for them to ask for help — I think that’s why it’s been so important for us to worry about stigma and the stigma that is different in different communities,” the minister said.
“It is the stigma that often prevents people from asking for help.”
The Pas centre will spend its $1.325 million to expand its Cedar Path project to more communities in the north. The project helps Indigenous teens engage in healthy lifestyle activities.
— staff