Mental Health Response

• Peer-based North Shore team aims to divert police from mental health calls

  The initiative pairs a trained peer-support worker with a mental health professional, who can be deployed to help a person or family facing mental health distress.

  Health

  May 6, 2022
  
• Horizon’s mental health mobile response team to include 2 Saint John police officers

  The team will 'provide on-site acute addiction and mental health needs assessments, as well as specialized crisis intervention.'

  Health

  Oct 6, 2020
  
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• Toronto’s CAMH says police should not be 1st responders to mental health calls

  "For too long, the health care system has relied on police to respond to mental health crises in the community ... " the centre said. "People with mental illness and their families deserve better."

  Canada

  Jun 23, 2020
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• Victoria council to explore alternatives to police response in mental health cases

  The vote comes amid a nationwide conversation on defunding police, a concept that argues funding should be moved from policing agencies to other front-line social services.

  Jun 17, 2020