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Article: Ontario plans additional mental health services to treat offenders.(Health)
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- Community Action
- Article date:
- January 24, 2005
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The government announced plans to spend $27.5 million annually in community mental health agencies across the province that will provide services to an additional 12,000 people which will treat non-violent offenders. The plan includes:
* crisis response and outreach, to provide access to a range of services and supports on a 24/7 basis to individuals experiencing a mental health crisis:
* short-term residential crisis support beds, or "safe beds," that can be used as an alternative to custody or hospital beds;
* support services, located in the courts, to assist with cases involving the mentally ill;
* intensive case management, to ...