New Brunswick to make changes to mental health crisis and addictions response “That jumped from 86,000 to 204,000 New Brunswickers.
So those numbers speak volumes in terms of the demand,” said Baldwin.The number of people having thoughts of suicide or self-harm has also spiked from two to 10 per cent, said Baldwin.“Those are significant numbers and another reason why we need now the resources in place to meet that demand,” she said.In a plan to boost mental health supports over the next three years, the province’s Health Minister Dorothy Shephard said both regional health authorities have already been given the green light to hire additional staff to work in mental health support.