Labrador West MHA Jordan Brown is calling on government to release the final
evaluation report from the Towards Recovery: The Mental Health and Addictions Action
Plan report. Brown is also questioning the delay in the release after government
announced they would release it in “the coming weeks” back in March.
“In March 2023, government announced that they would be publishing the final
evaluation report for the Towards Recovery report, yet it has been over four months and
we still have not seen it,” said Brown. “Government claims that all 54 recommendations
are completed and implemented, but we are still waiting to see the final evaluation that
was promised.”

The NDP says implementation of the recommendations from the Towards Recovery report was
supposed to be finished in 2022, but due to the pandemic, the process was pushed
back a year. The report was the culmination of the All Party Committee on Mental
Health and Addictions to review the gaps in mental illness and addictions services and treatment
in our province.

“The implementation of these 54 recommendations from the report is just the start of
creating safer and more accessible mental health supports,” said Brown. “The world has
gone through a pandemic that created a lot of anxiety and isolation.”