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Marcella Davis hopes she is doing the right thing by publicly pleading with officials in charge of Saskatchewan’s mental health system to help her son, ex-CFL player Jordan Matechuk.

She is concerned the 32-year-old is falling through the cracks.

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On Friday, she drove more than three hours from Yorkton, where Matechuk was raised, to Saskatoon for one of Matechuk’s court appearances. He had been in custody for 51 days.

Matechuk, who has lived with mental illness since his early 20s, is in custody at the Regional Psychiatric Centre, where Davis has been assured he will get the treatment he needs. She’s unsure what will happen once he’s out of the system.

He moved to Saskatoon in May to take a job in construction, but his health declined and a series of events culminated in a assault charge on June 12, she said.

“There are so many people that are struggling with mental health that aren’t getting the proper care, and it’s ending up being the plague of the 21st century,” Davis said.