Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Mental Health and Police Project: Fact Sheet Series (Canada) This series from CMHA-British Columbia (called to our attention in CMHA-Ontario's newsletter Mental Health Notes) were developed as part of the Building Capacity: Mental Health and Police Project. The goal of the project is "to improve interactions between police, emergency services, and people with mental illness" and the fact sheets include Police and Mental Illness: Increased Interactions; Criminalization of Mental Illness; Violence and Mental Illness: Unpacking the Myths;  Police and Mental Illness: Models that Work;  Hallucinations and Delusions: How to Respond; Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders: Key Issues; and Suicidal Behaviour: How to Respond. The link above leads to a page indexing the individual fact sheets, and the full set is also available as an Adobe Acrobat document.