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Mental health and substance use
Recommendation 15:
Select officers who excel at conflict resolution and empathy to work as Mental Health Liaison Officers and on therapeutic units, and involve the Provincial Health Services Authority in their training.
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Recommendation 17:
Revise the Coping Kit, a support handbook for families struggling with addiction, and create two condensed versions in partnership with From Grief to Action and the Canadian Mental Health Association – BC.
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Recommendation 50:
Restrict the use of force in response to self-harm to circumstances where there is an imminent risk of grievous bodily harm.
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Recommendation 53:
Require advanced training in working with people with mental health disabilities for all staff working on mental health units, in treatment centres, in segregation/SIUs, and as members of Emergency Response Teams as a prerequisite for performing these roles. Require regular refresher courses.
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Recommendation 9:
Require advanced training in working with people with mental health disabilities for all Mental Health Liaison Officers as well as staff working on mental health and no-violence units, in segregation, and as members of ERTs as a prerequisite for performing these roles. Require regular refresher courses.
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Recommendation 206:
Replace the deemed consent provisions of the Mental Health Act and the consent override provisions of the Healthcare (Consent) and Care Facility (Admission) Act and the Representation Agreement Act with a legislative mechanism that protects and respects the patient’s autonomy in making healthcare decisions and allows the patient to include trusted family members and friends in their treatment and recovery process.
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Recommendation 4:
Relevant public bodies should continue to build additional affordable housing that offers a flexible and progressive range of supports, specifically designed for people with mental health or substance userelated disabilities. For example, a person should have the option to move from a group home with onsite staff to an apartment managed by a local mental health non-profit as their health and if they chose to do so.
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Recommendation 187:
Reframe mental health and addictions services so they mirror Indigenous women’s social and economic realities and aspirations towards healing.
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Recommendation 155:
Reform the drug treatment court process so as to not require a guilty plea to access the program.
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Recommendation 134:
Redirect growing municipal, provincial, and federal police and prison budgets towards solutions that increase safety for Indigenous women such as more housing, child care, income, healthcare, mental health and addictions services, and healing supports.
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