It is a project that is progressing well. We will have good news about this project soon. The service should certainly be able to be offered next year she said in an interview with Radio-Canada Estrie.

The MNA states that they plan to hold an information session when the details of the project and the services offered by the crisis center are known.

For the Solidarity member for Sherbrooke, the Crisis Center will make it possible to avoid hospitalization for cases where it is not necessary.

” Even the police tell us that. They often intervene in situations involving mental health problems, people in crisis, hospitalized. These people are sometimes discharged the same day or the next day because they don’t belong in the hospital. »

1,500 people are waiting in Estrie

The Amqui tragedy that occurred on Monday has reignited the importance of mental health care and services. In Estrie, almost 1,500 people are waiting for primary and secondary psychiatric care. At the provincial level, we are talking about 20,000 people on the waiting list. A list the government has committed to cutting days before presenting its budget.

Numbers that Solidarity member for Sherbrooke Christine Labrie says would be underestimated. The latter also deplores a lack of resources in our region. A crisis center is therefore welcome in the Sherbrooke area.

We don’t do enough prevention. There is clearly something that needs to be done as a society to prevent people from falling into such dire straits. There are mental health issues that are more difficult to prevent, but anything pertaining to exhaustion or parental distress in particular, these are all things we should be able to act on upstream. She says.