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Health & Healthcare

Mental health platforms

Here's what the 2025 Ontario election parties are promising.

PC

  • Implement a $3.8B roadmap to improve mental health and addictions services

    "Improve access to mental health and addictions services by implementing the $3.8 billion Roadmap to Wellness: A Plan to Build Ontario’s Mental Health and Addictions System to improve mental health services for communities across Ontario, and support patients and families living with mental health and addictions challenges." — Our Plan to Protect Ontario, retrieved 2025-02-26

ONDP

  • Provide universal basic mental health care
  • Establish wage parity for health care workers in community settings, allowing primary care providers to offer mental health support

    "We will establish wage parity for health care workers in community settings to ensure community primary care providers can also offer mental health support." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

  • Clear the waitlist of 28K children and youth waiting for mental health care
  • Increase funding to community mental health service providers like CMHA and AMHO

    "We will increase funding to community mental health service providers, like CMHA and AMHO, that provide crucial services to help people with addictions." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

  • Ensure children access to autism services, particularly in Northern and Rural communities

    "We will ensure children and families have access to Autism services, particularly in Northern and Rural communities where services are even scarcer." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

Liberal

  • Provide universal mental healthcare under OHIP

    "Introduce universal mental healthcare under OHIP by expanding the Ontario Structured Psychotherapy Program, covering conditions like anxiety, depression, and eating disorders, hiring more social workers, and defining standards and coverage so that all people in Ontario have a basic form of coverage they can count on." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Double funding for Mobile Crisis Intervention Teams

    "Connect people to mental health resources and community support by establishing the CARE Fund (Crisis Assistance and Response Enhancement Fund) to double investment in Mobile Crisis Intervention Teams." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Green

  • Cover mental health and addiction care for all under OHIP
  • Invest in emergency mental health supports, including crisis centres and outreach workers
  • Make immediate investments to reduce wait-times to 30 days or less for children and youth

    "Immediately make the investments in frontline mental health to reduce wait times to 30 days or less for children and youth" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Increase base funding for community mental health services
  • Implement a wait-time reduction strategy for mental health services that sets targets, tracks wait-times, and makes the info public
  • Provide dedicated, ongoing funding to municipalities to address the mental health and addictions crisis
  • Bring wages for workers in community mental health up to par with other providers in the sector

    "Ensure retention and recruitment of workers in the community mental health sector by bringing wages up to par with other providers in the sector" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Provide virtual care options in rural and remote regions

    "Improve access to care by providing virtual care options in rural and remote regions" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Integrate mental health and addictions services into expanded Family Health Teams and walk-in clinics

    "Integrate mental health and addictions services into expanded Family Health Teams and walk-in clinics to improve early intervention" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Increase investment in Youth Wellness Hubs province-wide as a one-stop shop for employment, health, addiction, education, & housing support

    "Increase investment in Youth Wellness Hubs province-wide as a one-stop shop for employment, health, addiction, education, recreation and housing support" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Have social workers in emergency rooms during peak hours

    "Invest in emergency mental health supports including crisis centres and outreach workers, and have social workers in emergency rooms during peak hours to divert their needs" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Provide adequate mental health supports for first responders

    "Ensure adequate mental health supports are available for first responders" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

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