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Ontario invests over $4 million for additional mental health and addictions crisis workers

A local police department is getting over $168,000 in provincial funding to up their capacity to respond to mental health and addiction calls.

North Bay OPP is one of 28 Ontario police departments getting a share of the province’s $4 million in funding to expand Mobile Crisis Response Teams (MCRT). Those teams consist of police officers and crisis workers working together to respond to complex situations where mental health or addictions may be a factor.

Jones says MCRTs are best positioned to respond to people experiencing a mental health or addictions crisis and to de-escalate situations that could pose a risk to public safety.

“At a time when police are increasingly confronted with the need to assist vulnerable people in acute crisis situations, this new grant program will expand their ability to deliver appropriate services and underlines our government’s commitment to public safety,” she says.

The 28 police services will be using the money to add mental health and addictions crisis workers to existing MCRTs.

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