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C-265 – the National Perinatal Mental Health Strategy Act – establishes a national strategy to address perinatal mental health issues such as postpartum depression.
The Strategy
The Minister of Health, in consultation with provincial governments, Indigenous governing bodies, and any other relevant stakeholders will be responsible for creating this strategy. It will need to include measures to:
- Include universal access to perinatal mental health screening during and after pregnancy
- Ensure timely access to a perinatal mental health specialist during and after pregnancy
- Expand the availability of specialist perinatal mental health community care
- Increase public and professional awareness of perinatal mental health disorders, including their frequency and treatments
- Improve training for healthcare professionals around perinatal mental health disorders
- Ensure access to culturally relevant treatment options
- Ensure access to gender-affirming and inclusive treatment options
- Support trauma-informed care during the perinatal period
- Address social determinants to perinatal mental health
- Reduce barriers of access to perinatal mental health services
- Combat stigma around perinatal mental health
- Promote research on perinatal mental health in Canada
The Minister will have one year to create this strategy. Two years after that they will need to publish a report on its effectiveness, and then they’ll need to publish updates every five years after that.
Progress of C-265
C-265 is currently outside of the Order of Precedence.
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