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7. PUBLIC EDUCATION, PROMOTION, AND PREVENTION
Problems:
~ lack of a strong, co-ordinated approach. to education and promotion,

~ lack of information available to patients, their families and
‘friends about mental illness and its treatment.

Consensus:

7.1 Mental Health Services Division should develop and implement a
broad strategy for public education, mental-health promotion,
and the prevention of mental {liness.

7.2 Mental Health Services Division should develop a strategy for
the education of patients, their families and friends about -
mental iliness and its treatment to be implemented through the
involvement of all professional and lay service providers.

Guestions For Further Ofscussion:

k. What specific programs should be developed, and what
reductions in future mental health service needs should
these be expected to achieve?

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C. PRELIMINARY PLANNING GUIDELINES

As part of the Province-wide consultation over the past few months,
two technical preliminary planning projects have been carried out

to develop some of the concepts which are arising out of the
consultation process. The concept of a more intensive “Special Care*
community residential facility was. investigated, as was that of a
future “Continuing Psychiatric Care" facility to replace the existing
Riverview/Valleyview programs. The figures recommended by the latter
planning group for capacities of various types of bed resources have
been attached as Table 1, and the related estimated costs have been
‘fncluded in Table 2. While these numbers are by no means hara and
fast, they do repv2sent a serious effort to come to terms with the
existing use of beds at Riverview/Valleyview, and the way in which
these resources could be redeployed in future. They are introduced
at this time as a way of visualiziiig one set of options for the
future service system, and your comments are invited in this regard.

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