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It is crucial that police alternatives to crisis response calls be driven by peer support workers and regulated health professionals.The need for trauma-informed, culturally and psychologically safe crisis response is incredibly high and only rising in this pandemic. GETTYImagine yourself feeling the lowest you have ever felt. Facing significant trauma and intense depression, you believe the only way out is to end your life. You text a friend good-bye and attempt suicide.
The City of Toronto recently announced that its community-led mental health crisis response teams would be launched this March. Driven by organizations with strong roots in their communities such as the Gerstein Crisis Centre, this is an exciting and promising start to divesting mental health crisis care away from policing.
It is crucial that police alternatives to crisis response calls be driven by peer support workers and regulated health professionals. With our collective expertise in the mental health-care system, we know there are gaps in mental health care. It is rare that individuals in crisis call 911 as their first method for seeking help. More commonly, it is the culmination of a slow and gradual process of being continually let down by the insufficient help that is available. We need to prioritize funding and accessibility of supports such as psychotherapy.
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