Moncton’s free youth counselling organization raising $1.4M to expand service
Atlantic Wellness, an organization that provides free mental health counselling to youth between the ages 12 and 21, is looking to raise $1.4 million dollars from the public to move to a bigger location and offer services to francophones.
Steve Mitton, who serves as chair of the board for the organization, said in an interview on Wednesday that a job posting had already been advertised for one of the francophone counsellors they want to hire. Kane Melanson said the service was lifesaving for his son after he was discharged from the Moncton Hospital’s psychiatric ward.
He said sending his son to see counsellors in the private sector wasn’t sustainable for his family’s budget.“We did do private counselling, depending on who we were seeing at the time the average would have been around $200 dollars an hour. So during periods of crisis there were two challenges. One, it wasn’t readily accessible in a timely manner and two, it wasn’t sustainable on an ongoing basis,” he said.
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