The mother of a man who died after being discharged from hospital in October 2015 is holding a rally Sunday in an effort to call for changes within Manitoba’s mental health services.

Bonnie Bricker, the mother of Reid Bricker, 33, said her son died by suicide after being discharged from three Winnipeg hospitals after three suicide attempts in ten days. Police found his remains near Selkirk in June.

“You don’t get past it. You don’t find closure. You don’t get beyond it. What you do is adapt to your new reality,” Bricker said, “That’s what you do because you don’t have a choice.”

The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority said proper protocol was followed in Bricker’s case, but his mother believes the protocol was flawed.

“It was followed correctly but there was no capacity within that document to deal with someone who presents with suicidal ideation.” Bricker said.

She’s now on a task force with the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority to review mental health services.

In a statement a spokesperson for the WRHA said, “The WRHA recognizes that there have been concerns raised recently by families and patients of the mental health program and has been an active participant on the task force put into place following Mr. Bricker’s disappearance.”

Bricker said she made five recommendations to the task force, including changing the health authority’s discharge protocol, ensuring there is ongoing training and education for nurses and health practitioners on the Mental Health Act and giving patients access to trained peer support counsellors who’ve dealt with their own mental health.

On Sunday afternoon, Bricker is holding a rally at the legislature to bring people together to collectively call for changes. She wants to make sure what happened to her son is not repeated.

“I could in fact just shrug my shoulders and say I lost this fight, I lost my son, I’m going to curl into my own life and ignore everybody else,” Bricker said. “I don’t have to keep on fighting this fight but I need some reason to keep going.”

The rally will take place at the legislature from 2 p.m. until 4 p.m. on Sunday.