West Shore RCMP and Island Health are providing an update on how their Mobile Integrated Crisis Response Team is helping people during mental health calls. As Kylie Stanton reports, the need for such teams is growing.Mobile Integrated Crisis Response Team is similar to the Car 87/88 in Vancouver and the Car 67 program in Surrey.
The program was approved last July and partially rolled out in February. As of April, it is fully staffed with one corporal, two constables and two nurses.“We have had a huge variety of different types of calls, anything from your obvious if someone is in crisis having suicidal thoughts, anything like that, paranoid people, youth calls, senior calls,” said Cpl. Lauren Ferguson, who heads the teams.
West Shore RCMP, which polices Langford, Colwood, View Royal, Metchosin, the District of Highlands and the Songees and Esquimalt First Nations, received $350,000 to get its program running.Psychiatric nurse Daniel Nguyen said he has wanted the opportunity to be on this type of team since he lived in Vancouver.
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