UVic researchers had set out to find the impact of including police on Assertive Community Treatment teams of health professionals.
Interactions with police decreased for people with complex mental-health challenges in a program where they received regular visits from a team made up of health professionals and police officers, according to a new study by University of Victoria researchers.
The teams include a range of health professionals who connect with clients through outreach and home visits, often over several years. She said the key reason is that ACT officers “get to know the clients and are able to adjust their responses based on what they know about what’s in the best interest of clients’ well-being more than unknown patrol officers can.”
An agreement between Island Health and VicPD allows the ACT team to share information about a person’s history with ACT officers that generally wouldn’t be shared with a patrol officer in an urgent situation, said Echo Kulpas, Island Health’s manager of the mental health services unit.VicPD has two active ACT officers, and a third on maternity leave, who are embedded on five teams of psychiatrists, nurses, social workers and people with lived and living experience.
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