{"id":393398,"date":"2026-04-11T14:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T14:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/393398\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T14:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T14:57:11","slug":"advocate-raises-concerns-over-placing-mental-health-under-disabilities-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/393398\/","title":{"rendered":"Advocate Raises Concerns Over Placing Mental Health Under Disabilities Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/mens-shed-canada-2.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Advocate Raises Concerns Over Placing Mental Health Under Disabilities Office\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Men&#8217;s Sheds Canada\/Submitted)<\/p>\n<p>The inclusion of mental health under the purview of the province\u2019s new Disabilities Advocate isn\u2019t sitting right with one man who promotes mental health issues in the province.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Jeffrey is a certified counsellor and proponent for the Men\u2019s Shed project.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey believes establishing a Disability Advocate is a \u201cgreat step\u201d for the province, but the mental health has its own nuances and\u00a0it may not get the right focus.<\/p>\n<p>He says when there is a broad mandate for an office, specific issues may not get the depth or attention they deserve.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey says different issues require different types of advocacy. For example, he states mental health would look at crisis services, acute care, and addictions prevention, while disabilities will often look at more long term solutions. \u201cIt can be hard for a single structure to effectively address both of those.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (Men&#8217;s Sheds Canada\/Submitted) The inclusion of mental health under the purview of the province\u2019s new Disabilities Advocate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-393398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}