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Experiences of mental health issues
Recommendation 11:
Develop an alternative model for recognizing and responding to prisoners with mental health disabilities in crisis, in partnership with the Provincial Health Services Authority (including the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital) and people with lived experience. This includes prisoners in emotional distress (such as prisoners who are self-harming) as well as prisoners who are experiencing behavioural emergencies connected with their disabilities. These responses should be supportive and trauma-informed rather than punitive.
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Recommendation 55:
Develop an alternative model for identifying and responding to prisoners with mental health disabilities in crisis in partnership with mental health experts (including experts in forensic psychiatry) and people with lived experience. This includes prisoners in emotional distress (such as prisoners who are self-harming) as well as prisoners who are experiencing behavioural emergencies connected with their disabilities. These responses should be supportive and traumainformed rather than punitive.
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Recommendation 2:
Develop a Métis Mental Health and Wellness Action Plan to improve mental wellness, reduce problematic substance use, and address the harmful effects of colonialism, assimilation attempts, and the residential school system.
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Recommendation 33:
Develop a “no wrong door” policy by ensuring all organizations know what resources are available and what youth need supports to ensure no youth falls through the cracks. Mental health organizations should partner with non-profits to provide youth with clinical supports and workshops. There should be one referral document for all services such as the Wrapforce program in Kamloops and the One Door initiative in Kelowna.
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Recommendation 204:
Declare the opioid crisis a national public health emergency that disproportionately impacts Indigenous women, and expand funding for immediate health-based solutions for the opioid crisis that focus on the specific needs of Indigenous women. This includes:
- Full spectrum of recovery supports including immediate access to Indigenous women’s detox-on-demand and treatment centres.
- Indigenous-run treatment centres that use culture as treatment with Indigenous healing methods and land-based practices.
- More indoor overdose prevention sites and consumption sites, including culturally safe sites for Indigenous women only.
- Decriminalization and access to safer drug supply.
- Opioid-assisted therapy programs and full spectrum of substitution treatment options.
- Longer-term funding for range of culturally safe treatment programs.
- Provincial regulation and oversight over all recovery programs and facilities.
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Recommendation 3:
Currently “Specialized Service Agreements” under Part 2, Section 4(3) are focused on criminal investigation services, traffic enforcement services, police communication services, and forensic services. If the Ministry wished to ensure behavioral health and crisis response supports were coordinated with policing within designated service areas, this section could be amended to include such supports, with regulations in place to limit the role of police officers in mental health response while providing access to alternative service agreements to support coordinated, community-based crisis response.
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Recommendation 10:
Create specialized officer-nurse teams to respond to situations involving emotional or medical distress using joint decision-making. This could follow models in the community that pair specially trained police with psychiatric nurses to respond to emergencies involving people with mental health issues.
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Recommendation 54:
Create specialized officer-nurse teams at treatment centres and maximum and medium institutions to respond to situations involving emotional or medical distress using joint decision-making. This could follow models in the community that pair specially trained police with psychiatric nurses to respond to emergencies involving people with mental health issues.
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Recommendation 207:
Create legislative standards regulating the use of isolation in mental health facilities and the use of physical, mechanical, environmental, and chemical restraints against mental health patients to ensure compliance with Charter rights.
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Recommendation 31:
Create and ensure a positive and constructive organizational and workplace culture that is safe and respectful of multiple diversities of their employees, including Muslim employees.
Islamophobia at Work: Challenges and Opportunities
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Canadian Labour Congress
Canadian Labour Congress
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2019
2019
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