Health and Community Services
Education and Early Childhood Development
March 20, 2015

Media Advisory: Minister to Attend Launch of New Mental Health Access Program for Youth and Families

The Honourable Steve Kent, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health and Community Services, will participate in the official launch of a new program for accessing mental health services on Monday, March 23. The event will begin at 11:00 a.m. at Mount Pearl Intermediate.

Minister Kent will be joined by Tom Hedderson, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Education and Early Childhood Development; Beverly Clarke, VP, Eastern Health; and Patricia Lingley-Pottie, President and Chief Operating Officer, Strongest Families Institute.

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Media contact:

John Tompkins
Director of Communications
Department of Health and Community Services
709-729-1377, 728-7762
jtompkins@gov.nl.ca
Blair Medd
Director of Communications
Department of Education and Early Childhood Development
709-729-0048, 631-8465
blairmedd@gov.nl.ca
Helene Duffy
Executive Assistant
Strongest Families Institute
902-442-9520
admin@strongestfamilies.com

2015 03 20                             1:55 p.m.