The Service Systems Advisory Committee’s mission is to provide advice to the Commission on the ingredients necessary to create high performing mental health systems that meet the needs of people living with a mental illness.

The committee has determined those ingredients include but are not limited to: diversity; peer support/consumer-operated programs; supportive housing; health human resources planning; concurrent disorder capacity; and, the interface between primary health care and mental health systems across the country.

The committee’s work will encompass areas of federal jurisdiction as well as provincial systems.

The committee is now working on projects to:

• Complete a review to examine the range of supports and services directed and provided by people who live with mental illness. Ensure the inclusion of peer-support and consumer-directed services are identified as best practice in the provision of comprehensive mental health care.
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• Understand issues, best practices and options for service development to meet the needs of ethno-cultural groups, immigrants, refugees and racially marginalized groups;
  
  
• Examine regional and local readiness to develop housing and related supports for people living with a mental illness.
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