Summary
"The purpose of this Info Guide is to assist police services and hospitals in Ontario to reduce emergency department wait-times for police officers who are accompanying individuals experiencing a mental health crisis. The Info Guide provides an overview of the key issues relating to mental health apprehensions and police accompanied visits to the emergency department. In addition, the strategies for establishing effective police-emergency department protocols are highlighted as well as an inventory of protocols and resources from across Ontario.
The information contained in this document was compiled through a call for information which was distributed through the HSJCC Network to municipal and provincial police services, hospital staff, and providers of community mental health, addictions and other human services across the province."--Executive Summary.
Contents
1. Executive summary -- 2. Background and purpose -- 3. Police in the emergency room: an overview of the issues -- 4. Strategies for implementing effective police-emergency department protocols -- 5. Crisis planning -- 6. Children and youth -- 7. Racialized and Aboriginal communities -- 8. Relevant legislation and patient rights -- 9. Police-emergency department protocols in Ontario -- 9.1. Inter-agency agreements -- 9.2. L.E.A.D. protocols -- 9.3. Protocols in French -- 9.4. Policies -- 9.5. Forms -- 10. Joint police-emergency department committees in Ontario
-- 11. Resources
-- 11.1. Contact lists
-- 11.2. Flowcharts
-- 11.3. Additional information
-- 12. Contact information.