The Hamilton Mobile Crisis Rapid Response Team: A First-Responder Mental Health Service

Fahim, Christine; Semovski, Valbona; Younger, Jodi

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“…The introduction of a co-response team resulted in a reduction in the proportion of police incidents resulting in psychiatric hospitalisation in three studies [ 14 , 18 , 31 ], whilst one study found an overall reduction in hospitalisation due to fewer police detentions [ 24 ]. Three studies found an increase of psychiatric hospitalisation following the introduction of street triage [ 16 , 23 , 29 ]. One study compared a co-responding team to a usual response and found that whilst the co-response model was more likely to lead to escort to an emergency department, these were less likely to be involuntary escorts [ 35 ], whilst another study found that once participants were involuntarily hospitaised, participants reported better percieved procedural justice but no difference in percieved coercion from the admission event [ 34 ].…”

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“…Nine studies reported on the service providers’ views of the co-responder models: three surveys, two qualitative studies, and four mixed-method designs [ 11 , 13 , 14 , 16 , 17 , 25 , 26 , 28 , 30 ]. Service providers found the service helpful and valued the service [ 11 , 25 , 26 , 28 ], and reported improved coordination and collaboration between police, mental health services, and emergency departments [ 25 , 28 , 30 ].…”

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“…Service providers found the service helpful and valued the service [ 11 , 25 , 26 , 28 ], and reported improved coordination and collaboration between police, mental health services, and emergency departments [ 25 , 28 , 30 ]. They also reported improved speed and clarity of pathways to treatment for those seen by the triage teams [ 14 , 16 , 26 , 28 , 30 ]. The main criticism was the availability of the units, due to either limited operational hours or limited capacity [ 26 , 28 ].…”

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A systematic review of co-responder models of police mental health ‘street’ triage

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BackgroundPolice mental health street triage is an increasingly common intervention when dealing with police incidents in which there is a suspected mental health component. We conducted a systematic review of street triage interventions with three aims. First, to identify papers reporting on models of co-response police mental health street triage. Second, to identify the characteristics of service users who come in to contact with these triage services. Third, to evaluate the effectiveness of co-response triage services.MethodsWe conducted a systematic review. We searched the following databases: Ovid MEDLINE, Embase, PsycINFO, EBSCO CINAHL, Scopus, Thompson Reuters Web of Science Core Collection, The Cochrane Library, ProQuest National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, EThoS, and OpenGrey. We searched reference and citation lists. We also searched for other grey literature through Google, screening the first 100 PDFs of each of our search terms. We performed a narrative synthesis of our results.ResultsOur search identified 11,553 studies. After screening, 26 were eligible. Over two-thirds (69%) had been published within the last 3 years. We did not identify any randomised control trials. Results indicated that street triage might reduce the number of people taken to a place of safety under S136 of the Mental Health Act where that power exists, or reduce the use of police custody in other jurisdictions.ConclusionsThere remains a lack of evidence to evaluate the effectiveness of street triage and the characteristics, experience, and outcomes of service users. There is also wide variation in the implementation of the co-response model, with differences in hours of operation, staffing, and incident response.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (10.1186/s12888-018-1836-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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“…In Halifax, Kisley et al (2010) (Fahim, Semovski, and Younger 2016). Uniquely, however, the MCRRT is a primary, frontline response, which departs from the status quo of CRTs being a secondary response.…”

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“…Uniquely, however, the MCRRT is a primary, frontline response, which departs from the status quo of CRTs being a secondary response. Findings on the MCRRT suggest that it has been effective at diverting PwPMI to community-based services and reducing unnecessary transfers to hospital by 49% (Fahim et al 2016).…”

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Policing Mental Health: The Composition and Perceived Challenges of Co-Response Teams and Crisis Intervention Teams in the Canadian Context

Koziarski

O’Connor

Frederick

2020

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Due to an increase in interactions between the police and persons with perceived mental illness (PwPMI), police services have begun deploying specialized crisis responses to more adequately address these calls. One such response is a Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) that is comprised of frontline officers who are specially trained on mental health; another is a Co-Response Team (CRT) where an officer is paired with a mental health practitioner. With police services presumably shifting scarce resources to deploy these responses, it is paramount to understand the challenges they may endure. With little Canadian research on these responses to-date, the purpose of this paper is to document which Canadian police services deploy these responses and how their composition varies by jurisdiction, as well as their perceived challenges. Through a mixed methodological approach, the results indicate that most of the participating services deploy varying compositions of a CIT and/or CRT, but are perceived to endure a variety of challenges which may impede the overall success of these responses. A call for future research is made which may assist Canadian police services in addressing some of the identified challenges.

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Koziarski

2022

Policing Mental Health

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The Hamilton Mobile Crisis Rapid Response Team: A First-Responder Mental Health Service

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A systematic review of co-responder models of police mental health ‘street’ triage

A systematic review of co-responder models of police mental health ‘street’ triage

Policing Mental Health: The Composition and Perceived Challenges of Co-Response Teams and Crisis Intervention Teams in the Canadian Context

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