Lexi Daken’s family says provincial review a ‘good first step’ – New Brunswick

Lexi Daken’s household says they welcome New Brunswick’s overview of disaster care within the province.

The 16-year-old died by suicide final week, simply days after spending eight hours within the Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital ER asking for assist.

She finally left with out getting it, feeling like a burden, in keeping with her household.

Well being Minister Dorothy Shephard introduced Wednesday she’d requested New Brunswick Little one, Youth and Seniors’ Advocate Norman Bossé to conduct a overview of the province’s psychological well being care – paying particular consideration to disaster care.

She says she’d additionally requested each Horizon and Vitalité Well being Networks to supply suggestions for the way care in such conditions may very well be improved by month-end.

These, the Dakens say, are good first steps.

“We met with the minister yesterday,” Chris Daken mentioned Thursday. “I feel she’s a really honest girl. When she offers her phrase she means what she says.”

He says change is lengthy overdue in how we deal with psychological well being – particularly when these in disaster go to an emergency room as Lexi did.

“Once you take a look at the province’s web site for what it is best to do, it says name this quantity, name this quantity and if that doesn’t assist, report back to your ER,” Daken says.

“We adopted the steps that we had been presupposed to observe and we didn’t get consequence.”

Within the days since Lexi died, the Dakens have obtained an awesome quantity of help as folks past their neighborhood attain out to share tales of instances they, too, felt like a burden whereas in disaster.

“My mother and father and I’ve been receiving messages from folks throughout Canada and even some within the States,” says Lexi’s sister Piper.

“From them messaging me I do know it’s going to get higher and I’m not going to really feel this damage on a regular basis.”

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Piper has been a robust advocate for change in her sister’s identify by way of the previous week, personally connecting with New Brunswick Inexperienced Get together Chief David Coon over the weekend.

“I’d prefer to know that it’s not simply the federal government in energy now that’s serving to to maneuver this ahead,” she mentioned.

“It’s good to know that different persons are working in the direction of this aim as properly.”

The household met with Coon Thursday, after they say he assured them he’d battle for adjustments to New Brunswick’s disaster care whatever the overview’s findings.

The Dakens will now wait to see what these findings are.

“We’ll learn the report over, see what the advisable adjustments are and if we’re pleased with that, we’re pleased with it,” the ladies’ father says.

“We’re going to maintain transferring this forwards till we’re pleased with the outcomes.”

Bossé is predicted to talk to media Friday morning, when extra on the method might develop into accessible.