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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And for those who have never worked in or around this issue, you now see the reason why there is no improvements. Well, we can agree that mental health services and drug prevention and rehabilitation services are to key issues, advocates can’t agree on what is the best process for improvement. 
Therefore, very few new interventions are ever supported, so rarely tried.
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The "advocates" are clearly tripping all over each other and are thus counterproductive.  The decision should be taken out of their hands.  Maybe Council should have a hearing, to allow each advocacy group to make its case, and select 2-3 of the most compelling and workable recommendations from them, support it, mandate it, fund it, and collect the data to revisit and assess outcomes over the span of the next few years.  And periodically revisit it to look at the data, support what's working, and replace whatever isn't working with one of the alternatives recommended by advocacy groups.

But sitting around, navelgazing and dithering like they've done for the last decade isn't going to cut it.[/quote]

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