Quebec's mental health care is not successfully providing help to fight this issue, which is becoming more and more present in our society since it is now recognized as a medical disorder. Even if primary care services have been improved over the years in the province, there is still an important lack of structure between primary care and specialized services. According to Helen-Maria Vasiliadis and al, 81.6% of suicides that happened in a seven years range, were cases known by the mental health services. In other words, 48.7% of the cases had visited the emergency room and 28.5% of them were hospitalized in the year prior to death. In almost half of the cases, the person had asked for help, but the situation wasn’t considered urgent or critical. These statistics are the painful truth that the system is not protecting and assisting enough the teenagers with mental health issues.

Quebec needs to invest in the mental health care services to respond to people's needs and distress. Signing this petition will show the government the importance of these services and how much its people needs them to invest into mental health care.

Look at: Marie-Josée Fleury

*This petition is in English, because it has been created by a group of Quebec students at Champlain College (anglophone cégep), therefore the language is for academic purposes, we acknowledge that Quebec is a francophone nation*