The Alberta government is establishing the Canadian Centre of Recovery Excellence (CoRE) as part of their revamp of the health care system.
Mental Health and Addictions Minister Dan Williams says the centre will be able to inform best practices in mental health and addiction services.
“It’s going to be specific to trying to help us get the best information we need to solve the problems in the policy space around the addiction and mental health crisis that we face. We need to be an evidence based government based on facts and the best research that there is internationally. CoRE is going to be able to review and evaluate our system, where our policies are working, are programs working, are we reaching the people where we have gaps.”
$5 million going towards the establishment of the CoRE, which is one of a number of investments the province is making around mental health and addictions.
Williams says $328 million from the provincial budget is going into capital projects for addiction treatment.
“The majority of that is going into the nine remaining out of 11 recovery communities that we’re building, five in part with indigenous and first nation communities. This is going to increase out beds by over 2000 per annum for spaces for treatment that allows us to get high quality evidence based treatment to get people out of addiction, off the streets and into recovery.”
If legislation is passed, CoRE is expected to become operational this summer.
You can listen to the full interview with Williams below.
– Kyle Moore, Trending 55 Newsroom
