Free counselling cut for non-status residential school survivors in B.C.

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Health authority says mental health care only offered to those with First Nations status going forward

Non-status residential school survivors and their family members will no longer have certain mental health care covered in B.C., come May.

Beginning this month, mental health programs and services are being cut back to only include Indigenous people with official First Nations status, who currently live in B.C.

Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)

 

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