Pros
I hope some of the changes end up benefitting people. Change is almost always disruptive, so here’s hoping some departments come through alright.
Cons
Decades of best practice health promotion and substance use prevention work is being buried, shelved, or cut completely under the new treatment-focused changes. Mental health is getting lost in the focus on addiction treatment beds and recovery language. Toxic management issues in some areas are worse than ever. Sick time and leaves have skyrocketed. The new organization was thrown together hastily with a chaotic and often erroneous website, and patient/client privacy issues are at risk for anyone pursuing a treatment bed, as they must enter personal info into an app built and maintained by a private organization in BC with a history of health and safety breaches. It’s harder and harder to keep working at RA with any sense of values or ethics.