Province invests $10 million into mental health seats at Alberta post-secondaries
Red Deer Polytechnic is receiving funding for 70 new seats in its mental health programs.
This is part of a larger announcement made Friday by the Province, which is giving $10 million over three years to post-secondaries for the purpose of creating more spaces to train mental health professionals.
The 12 post-secondary institutions that will be receiving funding for additional seats are:
- Bow Valley College – 75 seats
- Burman University – 60 seats
- Grant MacEwan University – 90 seats
- Keyano College – 30 seats
- King’s University – 37 seats
- Medicine Hat College – 50 seats
- Mount Royal University – 105 seats
- Northwestern Polytechnic – 152 seats
- Portage College – 32 seats
- Red Deer Polytechnic – 70 seats
- St. Mary’s University – 45 seats
- University of Lethbridge – 15 seats