Posts by Marina Morrow

Marina Morrow

About Marina Morrow

Marina Morrow is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at SFU.

Challenges persist: Community-based mental health in BC

Nov 17, 2017
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In 2006, I wrote the report, “Community Based Mental Health in BC: Changes to Income, Employment and Housing Supports” to explain policy changes that had occurred with a new government and to look at their impact on community-based mental health services. In 2001 the Liberals came into power in BC after ten years of an… View Article

The BC Human Rights Commission and Mental Health

Dec 10, 2014
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In BC the human rights of people experiencing mental illness are routinely violated through the use of Section 28 under the BC Mental Health Act which is implemented when a person is thought to be a danger to themselves or others. A recent Globe and Mail article indicated that these apprehensions in BC (frequently initiated… View Article