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New mental health centre marks a return to institutionalized care

A new mental health facility will open its doors Friday at the old Willingdon youth detention centre in Burnaby, marking a move back to institutionalized care.

"It's a significant departure," newly named Housing and Social Development Minister Rich Coleman said yesterday. "Some people would call it reinstitutionalization, and I don't actually argue with that."

Coleman said he hasn't ruled out making changes to the Mental Health Act to allow for more powers of committal.

A new mental health facility will open its doors Friday at the old Willingdon youth detention centre in Burnaby. A similar facility is scheduled to open at the old Riverview Hospital site in Coquitlam by the end of this year.

For some, a move to institutionalized care may conjure memories of abuse or mistreatment, but Coleman said it is the right approach.

"We have a group of people that are very badly...See More


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