Child and youth advocate to release report into the death of Lexi Daken
CBC
Shaina Harvey knows what it's like to go to the emergency room with suicidal thoughts.
And not get any help.
"I've kind of seen both ends of it — either from me bringing somebody else ... or being there myself — and I've just never really seen a positive outcome for any of those situations," said the 23-year-old.
Harvey, a fourth-year biology and psychology student at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John, said lots of young people have had the same experience.
She said it was a common theme heard during a recent roundtable on mental health that included several young people from across Atlantic Canada.
The death of 16-year-old Lexi Daken was a major impetus for the roundtable.
The Maugerville teen went to the emergency room at a Fredericton hospital on Feb. 18 and asked for mental health help. Months earlier, she had tried to take her own life and a school guidance counsellor recognized that she was struggling.