With the vision to advance mental health, the Alberta Mental Health Board (AMHB) employs a wide variety of people from a number of industry sectors. The AMHB is the provincial health authority that oversees the mental health system, and while it does not provide clinical services, people with similar skills and training often fill dynamic roles within the AMHB. People with specific skills sets in areas such as information management and finance are also needed. The following examples show the diversity among departments:
Information Management
Working with Alberta Health and Wellness and the health regions, this team collects, analyzes and distributes mental health information. Information planning, strategic data assessment and data analysis services are some of the key areas of the department.
Forensic Services & Initiatives
This team works to ensure that adults and adolescents with mental illnesses who are in trouble with the law receive appropriate care, support and treatment from mental health and support services.
Mental Wellness and Healthy Living
This team is committed to enhancing wellness and healthy living through collaborative initiatives that advance mental health promotion and mental illness prevention, awareness and public education. Wellness and health living activities include, but are not limited to, developing provincial mental health promotion strategies, targeting at-risk populations such as youth, fostering innovation and research in mental health promotion and reducing stigma and discrimination.
Telemental Health
Using the latest videoconferencing technologies, Telemental health personnel deliver mental health services and professional development opportunities throughout the province. This is critical for assisting mental health professionals to connect and collaborate on a number of issues, who often operate from remote communities.
Suicide Prevention
The suicide prevention team leads, co-ordinates and advocates for suicide prevention.
A CALL TO ACTION: The Alberta Suicide Prevention Strategy, designed to reduce suicide, suicidal behaviour and the effects of suicide in Alberta over the next 10 years, is one of the implementation strategies. Other prevention programs target at-risk groups such as children and youth.
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