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RURAL CARE MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE USE PRIMARY HEALTH CARE SENIORS CARE SURGICAL ACCESS MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE USE SURGICAL ACCESS RURAL CARE Teamwork ACTs to help those at risk above: Kelowna ACT Team Lead Lisa Wensink. Jeanette Judson, 54, has a powerful voice. Even when speaking about her struggles with mental illness, poverty and abuse, she is unabashed. “We need to talk about these things,” she says passionately. “We need to talk about mental health, affordable housing, and poverty. Our lives are not set in stone. I really want people to know that anyone could end up like I was.” Jeanette was found by an Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team member living on the streets in Kamloops last summer, deep in crisis. She had been in and out of shelters for years, struggling to manage her mental health and make ends meet. Interior Health’s ACT team helped Jeanette stabilize and connected her with important social and health-care supports. continued on page 18 14 Healthier You spring 2016
ACT client Jeanette credits members of the ACT team for being an important part of her current well-being. “I know they want me to be healthy,” she says. spring 2016 Healthier You 15
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