Quebec injects 4.5 million for suicide prevention

Photo: Jacques Boissinot Archives The Canadian Press Social Services Minister Lionel Carmant Grants $4.5 Million to Suicide Prevention Centres in Quebec.

Thomas Laberge – The Canadian Press in Quebec City

Posted at 10:36 a.m.

• Quebec

On this World Suicide Prevention Day, Social Services Minister Lionel Carmant is granting $4.5 million to suicide prevention centres in Quebec.

This amount is a response to the public inquiry report by coroner Me Julie-Kim Godin published in June 2023, concerning the suicides of five people between 2017 and 2019.

The report recommended in particular that the necessary resources be deployed to set up suicide prevention centres and community crisis centres “equitly in all regions of Quebec”. It was also recommended that they be better funded.

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Suicide prevention centres “offer a range of services adapted to the complexity of the suicide problem in Quebec; including a 24/7 intervention line, public awareness, support for those around someone who is thinking about suicide, intervention in an environment following a suicide, services for people bereaved by suicide, as well as training for suicide prevention sentinels, professionals and stakeholders,” we can read in the minister’s press release.

There are currently 33 in Quebec spread across 15 regions.

According to preliminary data from the Office of the Chief Coroner of Quebec, there were at least 1,102 suicides in Quebec in 2022. Quebec has set itself the goal of reducing the number of deaths by suicide by at least 10% in its 2022-2026 Strategy.

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