A posting on the Canadian Mental Health Association, Ontario's website:
July 23, 2009
The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police recently launched a new Canadian Police/Mental Health Liaison Information website in recognition of the key role that police services play in ensuring that individuals living with mental illnesses are not inappropriately criminalized. This website provides a broad range of resources targeted at police service personnel, mental health service providers as well as program developers, policy makers and researchers from within both disciplines.
Front-line workers can access basic information about mental illness and tips for responding. For communities involved in implementing or managing a collaborative police/mental health response initiative, this site offers program and policy development guidelines and sample agreements and memorandums of understanding. Researchers will find a comprehensive bibliography as well as relevant research reports. Finally, there are educational resources available for police who are assuming a leadership role in this area of mental health.
For more information about the Canadian Police/Mental Health Liaison activities, contact Dr. Dorothy Cotton or Terry Coleman by email at info@pmhl.ca.
See Canadian Police/Mental Health Liaison Information website, at www.pmhl.ca.
Note: The Police and Mental Health Research Reading List posted on the Canadian Police/Mental Health Liaison Information website has not been updated since May 31st, 2007.
