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CMHA Saskatchewan provides Advocacy, helping to identify resources to assist consumers of mental health services. CMHA Saskatchewan Division Staff provide support to mental health consumers, their families and supporters to contribute to meaningful solutions which can help lead to a better quality of life.

Advocacy Highlights

Systemic Discrimination

  • Introduction

    A Case for an Investigation by the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission into Systemic Discrimination of the Mental Health System in Saskatchewan was written in response to the lack of resources behind the Working Together for Change: The Mental Health and Addictions Action Plan, created in 2014. It is a ten-year plan which outlines seven recommendations as system goals to improve mental health and addictions services in Saskatchewan. We compared this initiative’s lack of resources to other initiatives that were implemented within the last few years. It was woefully underfunded. We did not want this action plan to sit on a shelf with very little action, as had happened with previous initiatives towards mental health and addictions. In 2016, we went to the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission to present our case of systemic discrimination. Since then, we have written a recommendation document and, if you read through it, some of those recommendations have been met! The Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission has also since created a position, Director of Systemic Initiatives, that works directly with cases such as this one.

  • Working Together for Change

    Working Together For Change: A 10 Year Mental Health and Addictions Action Plan for Saskatchewan

    Dr. Fern Stockdale Winder
    Commissioner, Mental Health and Addictions Action Plan December 1, 2014

    Working Together for Change

  • A Case for an Investigation

    A Case for an Investigation by the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission into Systemic Discrimination of the Mental Health System in Saskatchewan

    Prepared by
    David Nelson,
    Senior Consultant, CMHA (Sask) Division
    Rebecca Rackow, BA (Hons.), BSW, RSW
    Director of Advocacy, Research, and Public Policy Development
    November 16, 2016

    CMHA Mental Health Discrimination Investigation

  • Mental Health & Addictions Care

    A Responsible Vision and Plan for Mental Health and Addictions Care in Saskatchewan

    Prepared by
    Rebecca Rackow, BA(hons.), BSW, RSW,
    Sharon Lyons BA, MA(Cand.),
    David Nelson
    For the Canadian Mental Health Association (Saskatchewan Division) Inc.   April 2018

    A Responsible Vision and Plan

DISC and SAID Programs

  • Introduction

    The Saskatchewan Disability Income Support Coalition (DISC) was formed by a large cross section of disability advocates, consumers and organizations across Saskatchewan who are committed to advocating for a respectful, dignified and adequate income support system. DISC members have joined together to speak as one voice, working towards a distinct (or separate) income system for people with disabilities that will be built on our common vision and principles.

    The Saskatchewan Assured Income for Disability (SAID) is an income support program for people with significant and enduring disabilities. It offers individuals the dignity of greater choice of services and participation in their community. Government and members of the disability community continue to work together to make improvements to the SAID program.

  • Final Recommendations of the Task Team

    Final Recommendations of the Task Team on Income Support for People with Disabilities

     May 13th, 2009

    Final Recommendations of the Task Team

  • Saskatchewan Assured Income for Disabilities

    Saskatchewan Assured Income for Disabilities:
    An Income Replacement program

    Dave Nelson, RSW(ret.), RPN(ret.)
    Rebecca Rackow, BA(hons.), BSW, RSW

    May 13th, 2009

     

    SW DISC-SAID Class Presentation

  • The Challenges of Living on SAID 2016

    The Saskatchewan Assured Income for Disability (SAID) is an income support program for people with significant and enduring disabilities. In the following video, you’ll meet a group of SAID recipients and learn how rising costs are creating challenges for daily living.

  • Additional Links

    Changes to rental supplement ‘short-sighted,’ Sask. housing advocates say

    Plan to phase out Sask. Rental Housing Supplement ‘an indecent move,’ says NDP critic

     

     


    DISC Website

    Our primary vision is to see an income system that offers both an adequate baseline income for people with disabilities and a user-friendly mechanism to address individual financial needs based on the impact of disability.

     

     


    DISC Website

    The Saskatchewan Assured Income for Disability (SAID) is an income support program for people with significant and enduring disabilities.

     


Canadian Museum For Human Rights

  • Introduction

    In a family visit to the Human Rights Museum in August 2018, our Director of Advocacy, Research, and Public Policy Development, Rebecca Rackow was very impressed with the museum overall.  However, she did notice some obvious gaps in the mental health and addictions areas in the various displays.  In contacting our sister Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) Division in Manitoba, we discovered they too had been communicating with the museum regarding improvements to the various displays to more effectively convey human rights discrimination.

  • Canadian Human Rights Museum – Recommendations

    Canadian Human Rights Museum
    Recommendations PDF

    2018

    Canadian Human Rights Museum – Recommendations

  • Upholding Human Rights

    Upholding Human Rights CMHA Sask. Division Involvement in Enhancing the Mental Health and Addictions Component at the Canadian Human Rights Museum in Winnipeg

     

    Prepared by:
    David Nelson, RPN(Ret.), RSW(Ret.)
    Associate Executive Director, CMHA (Sask) Division
    Rebecca Rackow, BA(Hons.), BSW, RSW,
    Director of Advocacy, Research, and Public Policy Development

    Upholding Human Rights

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