Acute services for mental health crises are very important to service users and their
supporters, and consume a substantial share of mental health resources in many countries …

Over 235,000 people couch-surf, stay in emergency shelters, or live on the street in Canada
every year. But lack of housing security is just one barrier faced by people who are …

Due to an increase in interactions between the police and persons with perceived mental
illness (PwPMI), police services have begun deploying specialized crisis responses to more …

Recent discussions around police reform have acquired a significant degree of traction.
Within these discussions have been calls to remove the police as primary responders to …

Using the current empirical landscape of police responses to people in mental health crisis
as a backdrop, this methods paper makes an argument for the central role of collaborative …

Significant public discourse has focused recently on police–civilian interactions involving
with persons with mental illness (PMI). Despite increasing public attention, and growing …

This study uses the constellation approach of transition theory as a theoretical framework to
depict the ways in which facilitators and barriers in police system's structure, culture, and …

There has been a move towards trauma-informed services in multiple systems whose
services are provided by police, medical doctors, nurses, teachers, and social workers, to …

In recent years, police services have begun deploying more robust responses to calls for
service involving persons with perceived mental illness (PwPMI), but at times do so in a …

In an effort to improve police responses for handling incidents involving people with mental
illness (PWMI), many police departments have adopted the Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) …