UCP
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Spend $6M over two years to create sheriff-led teams targeting gun smuggling and fentanyl trafficking at the border
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Allow family courts to issue treatment orders requiring a person to be treated for addiction, at the request of a family member, doctor, or police officer
"The Compassionate Intervention Act will allow a family member, doctor, or police officer to make a petition to family court for a treatment order when someone is a danger to themselves or others. The treatment order would require that person to engage in treatment for their addiction and drug use to save their life and protect the safety of the community." — unitedconservative.ca, retrieved 2023-05-17
"Treatment orders would vary depending on the individual and their needs and circumstances and could include evidence-based medication treatment (Opioid Agonist Treatment or OAT), outpatient counseling, medical detox, inpatient addiction treatment, or attendance in an in-patient treatment program. The treatment order would provide the person with the best opportunity for recovery while ensuring communities are safe." — unitedconservative.ca, retrieved 2023-05-18
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Add 700 new publicly-funded addiction treatment beds across 11 new treatment centres, 4 of which built in partnership with First Nations
"A re-elected United Conservative government will build over 700 new publicly-funded addition treatment beds across 11 new treatment centres called recovery communities. Four of these new recovery communities will be built in partnership with First Nations including the Kainai Nation, the Enoch Cree Nation, the Siksika Nation, and the Tsuut’ina Nation." — unitedconservative.ca, retrieved 2023-05-17
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Invest $5M/year to expand resiliency education in schools
"Resilient Schools works together with First Nations and Métis school communities across Alberta to amplify the voice of youth and create opportunities for educators, Elders, parents, coaches and community members to develop their own strategies to enhance student success." — unitedconservative.ca, retrieved 2023-05-27
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Build four new youth mental wellness centres for inpatient mental health and addiction treatment
"Building four new youth mental wellness centres to provide inpatient mental health and addiction treatment to youth under the age of 18.
These wellness centres are a new model for healing, recovery, and prevention and would provide 30 treatment spaces each, located in Calgary, Edmonton, Red Deer and Lethbridge.
A re-elected UCP government would invest $15 million in capital and $15 million in operating expenditures over four years.
By bringing strategic partners together under one roof and providing the personalized, treatment-focused space that they need, they are able to better respond to the challenges presented by mental health concerns, child abuse, child sexual exploitation, and other child and youth related traumas.
Building these purpose-built spaces reduces unnecessary use of more expensive acute-care beds." — unitedconservative.ca, retrieved 2023-05-27