Real Time Crisis

03/25/2021

Nice to see in Ontario's Action Plan-Protecting People's Health and Our Economy a section for assisting people through a crisis call diversion program in OPP Provincial Call Centre. Would be nice to add professional social media interventions.

06/28/2020

This is the most comprehensive article to date explaining how the concept of professional interventions on social media by police collaborating with nurses or social workers could work to save lives. Published in the RCMP Gazette in 2014. https://rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/gazette/real-time-response-suicidal-tweets

12/16/2016

Death on the tracks: How bad is Toronto transit’s su***de problem? - The Globe and Mail

Su***de by transit is a human tragedy and a pernicious public-health challenge – and Toronto has costly decisions to make about how to prevent it

09/23/2016

Police are facing growing pressure to respond to people in mental health crisis. Chloe Farand �finds out more.

09/23/2016

The average amount of time police officers spend dealing with mental health calls has declined compared to last year, but those calls remain a...

07/11/2016

Read Mashable article on su***de prevention and social media quoting Dr April Foreman via Dr Katy Kamkar CAMH - Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

What you share online may help researchers understand and solve one of our most urgent public health epidemics: su***de.

06/16/2016

Facebook offers tools for those who fear a friend may be suicidal. Shared via Dr. Katy Kamkar CAMH - Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

The social network has introduced a process allowing people to flag posts that raise concern about su***de or self-harm

06/06/2016

Need for professioal crisis intervention on social media evident as citizen creates Facebook help group for youth in crisis YOUTH Su***de Prevention in Woodstock Ontario ***de

The southwestern Ontario community of
Woodstock, Ont., is facing a youth
su***de

05/01/2016

Stockton Police Department help people experiencing challenges 'Sometimes she forgets to take her medicine' http://ow.ly/4niJKb

STOCKTON — Two tiny girls sat on a queen-sized mattress in an unkempt living room, hugging and crying and wrapped up together in a

05/01/2016

Courts seek new approach to mental illness as cases rise highest ever | Duluth News Tribune http://ow.ly/4niKem

On Sept. 16, 2014, 71-year-old Mary Mosqueda was found dead in her Lincoln Park home, the victim of multiple stab wounds. Duluth police said they...

05/01/2016

‘We trusted the police with Jack. I wish I’d never called them’

Jack Susianta died after police failed to go into a river to save him. His mother and brother tell how five institutions tried to pin the blame on...

04/19/2016

New agreement will keep mental health patients, police out of Emergency Room - Windsor - CBC News

The Windsor Police Service and Windsor Regional Hospital have entered into an agreement that will help shorten the time police and mental health...