Mental Health and Addictions Minister Dan Williams introduced a bill to help Alberta recover costs of treating opioid addictions from manufacturers and distributors.
The province has asked the College of Alberta Psychologists to start work on providing professional oversight, discipline and regulation of counselling therapists.Counselling therapists in Alberta will soon be regulated by a professional college, but it won't be the one they expected to have for the past few years.
The former NDP government passed legislation that would create the CCTA upon proclamation, but under the governing UCP, that proclamation never came. Two weeks ago, ACTA hoped they had finally met all the concerns raised by the province by securing the support of Cody Thomas, grand chief of the Confederacy of Treaty 6 First Nations, and Arthur Noskey, grand chief of the Sovereign Nations of Treaty 8.
ACTA is facing questions from its membership about what transpired. Several members expressed concern on the organization's Facebook page where the government's announcement leaves addictions counsellors who have paid dues to ACTA, expecting it would eventually transform into a professional college.The Child and Youth Care Association of Alberta also doesn't know where its members fit into Williams' plan.
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