"Dr. Ray Baker, B.Sc., M.D., CCFP, Certified in Addiction Medicine, Director AMIR, University of British Columbia, in a letter to Diane Mirosh dated August 30, 1993. “I am writing to support a program in Alberta which may very well be one of the best models of treatment of substance use disorders in this whole country. The program is AARC…I believe that this type of care is both cost effective and treatment effective, while at the same time achieving objectives sought after during this process of health care reform in our country, namely: early prevention and intervention in ambulatory patients by an interdisciplinary team offering community based care."
Here is All About Receiving Cash's interdisciplinary team:
Dr F. Dean Vause
Executive Director
Former employee of Kids of Bergen County, trained under miller Newton. Not licensed as a psychologist.
Natalie Imbach, B.A., M.Sc
Clinical Director
Entered the adolescent facility as an adult client. Not a licensed psychologist.
Colin Brown, B.A., M.Sc.
Clinical Director
Former client. Not a licensed psychologist.
Joan Topilko, RN, Addictions Cert.
Family Therapist
Parent of former client. Not a licensed psychololgist.
Bryan Campbell, B.A.,
Clinical Coordinator
Former client. Not a licensed psychologist.
Sarah Anderson, B.A., B.A.
Clinical Counselor, Manager of Operation
Stepdaughter of Dean Vause. Not a licensed psychologist
The disciplines of the team run the entire gamut from former Kids employee to former client to former parent of client to offspring of former Kids employee.
Schedule 7.1
Health Services Restricted Activities
Definitions
1 In this Schedule,
(g) “restricted activity” means an activity named as a restricted activity in section 2;
Restricted activities
2(1) The following, carried out in relation to or as part of providing a health service, are restricted activities:
(p) to perform a psychosocial intervention with an expectation of treating a substantial disorder of thought, mood, perception, orientation or memory that grossly impairs
(i) judgment,
(ii) behaviour,
(iii) capacity to recognize reality, or
(iv) ability to meet the ordinary demands of life;
http://www.qp.gov.ab.ca/Documents/acts/G10.CFMOffence
4(1) No person shall perform a restricted activity or a portion of it on or for another person unless
(a) the person performing it
(i) is a regulated member as defined in the Health Professions Act, and is authorized to perform it by the regulations under the Health Professions Act,
(ii) is authorized to perform it by a regulation under section 3,
(ii.1) is authorized to perform it by an order under section 3.1, or
(iii) is authorized to perform it by another enactment,
or
(b) the person performing it
(i) has the consent of, and is being supervised by, a regulated member described in clause (a)(i), and
(ii) is permitted to perform the restricted activity under a regulation made under section 131(1)(d)(i) of the Health Professions Act by the council of the college of the regulated member referred to in subclause (i),
and there are regulations made under section 131(1)(d)(ii) of the Health Professions Act by the council of the college of that regulated member respecting how regulated members must supervise persons who provide restricted activities under this clause.
Penalty
5(1) A person who contravenes section 4 is guilty of an offence and liable
(a) for a first offence, to a fine of not more than $5000,
(b) for a 2nd offence, to a fine of not more than $10 000, and
(c) for a 3rd and every subsequent offence, to a fine of not more than $25 000 or to imprisonment for a term of not more than 6 months or to both fine and imprisonment.