Mental Health Act Toolkit
Mental Health Act Toolkit
Overview
The BC Mental Health Act is legislation to treat and protect people with severe mental disorders. Its primary purpose is to provide authority, criteria and procedures for involuntary and voluntary admission and treatment. It includes protections to safeguard individual rights.
"We want the process done with us, not to us."
- Youth with Lived Experience
“These forms are not mere paperwork. Where the state is exercising the extraordinary power to remove a person’s liberty, legal documentation is a fundamental requirement that must be observed.”
- Ombudsperson's Special Report
All educational resources, including the online module, were made in collaboration with our youth and parent partners who have lived experience.
“In terms of having more education and having youth and their families involved, it breathes life into what it is we are actually doing. When we are going through rights, when we are going through the different forms, it’s not just about the forms, it’s about the actual people behind the forms.”
- Sandra, Clinical Nurse Coordinator
- Sandra, Clinical Nurse Coordinator
“In terms of having more education and having youth and their families involved, it breathes life into what it is we are actually doing. When we are going through rights, when we are going through the different forms, it’s not just about the forms, it’s about the actual people behind the forms.”
Sandra, Clinical Nurse Coordinator
The BC Mental Health Act is legislation to treat and protect people with severe mental disorders. Its primary purpose is to provide authority, criteria and procedures for involuntary and voluntary admission and treatment. It includes protections to safeguard individual rights.
“We want the process done with us, not to us.”
- Youth with Lived Experience
“These forms are not mere paperwork. Where the state is exercising the extraordinary power to remove a person’s liberty, legal documentation is a fundamental requirement that must be observed.”
Ombudsperson's Special Report
All educational resources, including the online module, were made in collaboration with our youth and parent partners who have lived experience.
“In terms of having more education and having youth and their families involved, it breathes life into what it is we are actually doing. When we are going through rights, when we are going through the different forms, it’s not just about the forms, it’s about the actual people behind the forms.”
Sandra, Clinical Nurse Coordinator
The BC Mental Health Act is legislation to treat and protect people with severe mental disorders. Its primary purpose is to provide authority, criteria and procedures for involuntary and voluntary admission and treatment. It includes protections to safeguard individual rights.
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