Action | Mental Health Skill-building Services |
Stage | Final |
Comment Period | Ended on 7/27/2016 |
As someone who has worked in the field providing direct care to clients, the 2-unit cap does not seem like to best option for what we actually do day to day with clients. We have a significant number of clients who live in rural areas and need assistance accessing community resources that may be several towns away. For these clients, their MHSS clinician is frequently the only assistance they have to access these resources and learn about them, and decreasing the amount of time that clinicians have to accomplish these tasks with clients can be challenging. I know from the policy perspective it may be easy to make these changes because they seem easy or seem to make sense, but when you are working with a client and have to potentially end a session at three hours and tell a client you don't have time to help them access a food bank or a much needed resource, it becomes a bit less black and white.