Real Time Crisis

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.

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

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

Death on the tracks: How bad is Toronto transit’s su***de problem? 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

Majority of police calls linked to mental health crisis, reveals... Police are facing growing pressure to respond to people in mental health crisis. Chloe Farand �finds out more.

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

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 post on social media might help prevent su***de What you share online may help researchers understand and solve one of our most urgent public health epidemics: su***de.

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

Facebook offers tools for those who fear a friend may be suicidal The social network has introduced a process allowing people to flag posts that raise concern about su***de or self-harm

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

Woodstock, Ont., in 'crisis' after string of youth su***des The southwestern Ontario community of
Woodstock, Ont., is facing a youth
su***de

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

'Sometimes she forgets to take her medicine' STOCKTON — Two tiny girls sat on a queen-sized mattress in an unkempt living room, hugging and crying and wrapped up together in a

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

Courts seek new approach to mental illness 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...

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

‘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...

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

New Windsor police, hospital agreement to lower officers' wait times in ER The Windsor Police Service and Windsor Regional Hospital have entered into an agreement that will help shorten the time police and mental health...