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Gathered input to establish safety and consumer protection standards for addiction and mental health services and treatment facilities.
Status: Completed
Ministry responsible: Health
Completed: 2018
Alberta is working to improve the addiction and mental health system. About 20% of people will experience an addiction or mental health issue in their lifetime. When seeking treatment, it's important they receive safe, quality care and consumer protections.
One of the key actions in the Valuing Mental Health: Next Steps report is to develop regulations and standards for service providers and treatment facilities.
Stronger safeguards and consumer protections will help protect people from physical, mental and financial harm when receiving treatment and services.
Albertans were invited to complete a survey to provide input on ways to better protect people seeking addiction and mental health services, such as:
Under the existing system, there is limited regulation of addiction and mental health services or treatment facilities outside of those provided through Alberta Health Services. This means there is no oversight on:
The survey closed Sept. 14, 2018. Thank you for your input.
Input received from Albertans helped inform proposed legislation to establish a new professional regulatory college and licensing requirements to protect Albertans receiving mental health services or attending residential addiction treatment facilities.
For questions about the survey, please email [email protected].