The illegal toxic drug supply and overdose crisis is having tragic impacts on communities throughout Canada. Our family, friends and neighbours have been impacted by this tragic public health crisis. Canada's approach is focused on providing access to a full continuum of health care services and leveraging tools at our disposal to save lives, connect people to care, and keep communities safe.
Today, MP Wayne Long, Member of Parliament for Saint John-Rothesay, on behalf of the Honourable Ya'ara Saks, Minister of Mental Health and Addictions and Associate Minister of Health, announced more than $900,000 to Sophia Recovery Centre for their project aimed at expanding and strengthening the peer substance use health workforce through co-designed mentorship and wellness training for women.
This project will provide training to women with lived and living experience of substance use in Saint John, St. Stephen, and Quispamsis, NB, to provide community members with substance use health information; mentorship to women seeking recovery; and deliver prevention, harm reduction and recovery initiatives. The project will also include access to individual therapy and an ongoing wellness education program.
The Government of Canada is committed to supporting community partners and organizations working to save lives. This project is funded through the Substance Use and Addictions Program (SUAP).
We will continue to work will all partners to get people the support they need.
