{"id":6795,"date":"2017-10-09T12:21:29","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T16:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=6795"},"modified":"2017-10-09T12:21:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T16:21:29","slug":"ndp-to-wynne-every-child-matters-support-indigenous-children-living-with-mental-health-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/09\/ndp-to-wynne-every-child-matters-support-indigenous-children-living-with-mental-health-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"NDP to Wynne: Every child matters\u2014support Indigenous children living with mental health challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>During question period Thursday, Ontario\u2019s NDP critic for Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation Michael Mantha demanded that the Wynne government answer the call of northern First Nations communities struggling to access mental health services.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf a family lives in Sault Ste. Marie, Blind River or Elliott Lake, they have direct access to Algoma Family Services children\u2019s mental health services. However, if a family lives on a First Nation, they receive no children\u2019s mental health services from Algoma Family Services,\u201d said Mantha.<\/p>\n

According to the Chief of the Serpent River First Nation, Indigenous children living in communities between Sault Ste. Marie and Sudbury wait up to two years for mental health support. Nogdawindamin Family and Community Services is seeking to take over providing children and mental health services from area agencies\u2014a proposal supported by Algoma Family Services.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlgoma Family Services has indicated that they don\u2019t have the expertise or resources to provide any services to First Nations in my area or to Indigenous children who are in the care of Nogdawindamin Family and Community Services,\u201d said Mantha. \u201cThis is why Nogdawindamin has submitted a proposal to your ministry to fund the delivery of culturally-appropriate children\u2019s mental health services to our area\u2019s First Nations communities. Your ministry simply answered that there is no money for this. Minister, every child matters.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy is there no money for direct treatment of children\u2019s mental health on First Nations in my area?\u201d asked Mantha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During question period Thursday, Ontario\u2019s NDP critic for Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation Michael Mantha demanded that the Wynne government answer the call of northern First Nations communities struggling to access mental health services. \u201cIf a family lives in Sault Ste. Marie, Blind River or Elliott Lake, they have direct access to Algoma Family Services children\u2019s …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[138],"class_list":["post-6795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northern-ontario","tag-michael-mantha"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 04:04:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6796,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795\/revisions\/6796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}