Notes
Key populations
Service providers at SPOs (Service Providing Organizations) in Alberta
Key findings
Barriers to access and use of mental health services include: language barriers, cultural interpretations of mental health, stigam around mental illness, fear of negative repercussions of living with a mental illness. Strategies to improve mental health service delivery include: developing community-based services, attending to financial barriers, training ISO on mental health, enhancing collaboration across sectors in mental health service delivery and advancing the role of interpreters and cultural brokers.
Community organizations
NA
Integration timeline
At what point during the integration process the study was conducted?
NA
Key Recommendations
Strategies to improve mental health service delivery include: developing community-based services, attending to financial barriers, training ISO on mental health, enhancing collaboration across sectors in mental health service delivery and advancing the role of interpreters and cultural brokers.
Gaps identified
Immigrants and refugees face barriers to accessing mental health supports (see key findings)
ISBN: 1445-8330