Re‐examining mental health crisis intervention: A rapid review comparing outcomes across police, co‐responder and non‐police models

N Marcus, V Stergiopoulos - Health & Social Care in the …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Police are the default first responders in most mental health crisis intervention models
worldwide, resulting in a heavy burden on police, perceived criminalization of individuals …

Knowledge, skills, and abilities for managing potentially volatile police–public interactions: A narrative review

C Bennell, B Jenkins, B Blaskovits, T Semple… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
We conducted a narrative review of existing literature to identify the knowledge, skills, and
abilities (KSAs) necessary for officers who police in democratic societies to successfully …

Knowledge and skills for social workers on mobile crisis intervention teams

A Ghelani - Clinical Social Work Journal, 2022 - Springer
Public outrage over police-involved deaths of people in mental health crisis has prompted
governments to expand access to crisis services that partner police with social workers …

Shedding light on the dark figure of police mental health calls for service

J Koziarski, L Ferguson, L Huey - Policing: a journal of policy …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
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 …

A police-clinician co-response team to people with mental illness in a suburban-rural community: a randomized controlled trial

SM Yang, CE Gill, YF Lu, M Azam… - Journal of Experimental …, 2024 - Springer
Objectives The police-mental health co-response model has garnered support from both
police and healthcare workers. It is praised for its ability to enhance crisis de-escalation …

Impact of COVID-19 on the lives of people with severe mental illness—front-line community psychiatry workers observation from a provincial survey of assertive …

A Kassam, M Beder, S Sediqzadah, M Levy… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Using an online survey distributed to members of the provincial organization that represents
the 88 Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) and Flexible ACT teams in Ontario, Canada …

Inpatient Care utilization following Mobile Crisis response encounters among Racial/Ethnic Minoritized Youth

JHL Lui, BC Chen, LA Benson, YJR Lin, A Ruiz… - Journal of the American …, 2024 - Elsevier
Objective There has been an increase in youth psychiatric emergencies and psychiatric
inpatient hospitalizations in recent years. Mobile crisis response (MCR) services offer an …

Caught in the currents: evaluating the evidence for common downstream police response interventions in calls involving persons with mental illness

L Huey, J Andersen, C Bennell, M Ann Campbell… - Facets, 2021 - facetsjournal.com
The origins of this report, and of the Mental Health and Policing Working Group, can be
traced to the unique situation Canadians have faced as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic …

Effectiveness of Canadian police and mental health co-response crisis teams: A scoping review

A Ghelani, M Douglin, A Diebold - Social Work in Mental Health, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
People with mental health concerns are over-represented in police-involved deaths in
Canada. Calls for alternative responses to people in crisis have generated interest in …

Barriers to Safety Planning for Female Victims of Domestic Violence in Canadian Rural, Remote, and Northern Communities

S Kohtala, PG Jaffe, D Chiodo, M Dawson… - Journal of Family …, 2023 - Springer
Purpose Domestic violence and domestic homicide are significant community concerns in
Canada. Recent studies suggest that female victims residing in rural, remote, and Northern …