Canadian Policing Research Catalogue

Location

Canadian Policing Research

Resource

e-Books

Alternate Title

Final site report : Salmon Arm Canadian Mental Health Association June 2007.

Authors

• Bailey, Rhonda, author.
• Canadian Mental Health Association. B.C. Division, issuing body.

Publishers

• [Vancouver, B.C.] : Canadian Mental Health Association BC Divsion, 2007.

Description

1 online resource (33 pages)

Note

Cover title.
"June 2007"--Cover.
"In 2004, with funding from the Provincial Health Services Authority and the Vancouver Foundation, CMHA BC began work with six BC communities to begin to identify areas for improvements in the link between police and mental health services and systems. We called the project Building Capacity: Mental Health and Police Project (BC:MHAPP). The project was conducted in six BC communities (Cranbrook, Delta, Nanaimo, Vancouver, Williams Lake and Richmond) and took place over a period of 6 months during 2005."--Page 3.
"BC Mental Health and Addiction Services, Provincial Health Services Authority had generously provided funding to build on the first phase of the mental health and police project from 2005. This latest phase will cover four areas: Development of the project in three additional communities (Salmon Arm, Kelowna and Prince George). The new sites were chosen by early September. Coordinators for the new sites were in place by Fall 2006, with wrap-up late Spring 2007. An external evaluation of the 2005 project, directed by Dr. Marina Morrow from SFU‟s Faculty of Health Sciences. The evaluation will begin in September, with a final report in November. Each of the original six sites were eligible to receive funding to fulfill activities identified in their action plans from 2005. This phase will end in July 2007. Systemic change and mental health within the police workforce, including a literature review and recommendations. These last two pieces will both end July 2007."--Page 3-4.

Subject

• Mentally ill offenders - Services for - British Columbia - Salmon Arm.
• Mentally ill - Care - British Columbia - Salmon Arm.
• Police services for the mentally ill - British Columbia - Salmon Arm.
• Crisis Intervention (Mental health services). - British Columbia - Salmon Arm.
• Assistance in emergencies - British Columbia - Salmon Arm.

Contents

Mental Health and Police Project summary -- Study in Blue and Grey report -- Community of Salmon Arm -- Community hospitals -- Vernon Jubliee Hospital -- Regional hospitals -- RCMP -- Ambulance -- 911 -- People In Need (P.I.N. crisis line) -- Interior mental health and addiction services -- Child and youth mental health services -- Idenitified areas to improve on, recommendations and action plan table -- Lessons learned -- Committee members -- Appendix 1: Mental health timeline -- Appendix 2: Current service system -- Appendix 3: Current agency system -- Appendix 4: Shuswap Lake General Hospital information.