Crisis Mental Health Responses

Crisis mental health responses are emergency calls regarding fear of harm that a person poses to themselves or others due to episodic changes in behaviour commonly attributed to mental illness.

Share a crisis response model with us

​Efforts to change interventions require a close connection between key stakeholders (e.g., people with lived experience of mental illness and crisis intervention, mental health professionals, community organizations, police, policymakers).

We are conducting two scoping reviews* to explore and discover civilian and co-response models, and to build capacity and readiness to improve the crisis mental health response system in Canada. If you would like to share a response model, or your experience with crisis mental healthcare, please click the button below to share your contact information with Dr. Eaton.

*Scoping reviews are designed to synthesize knowledge by identifying key concepts and gaps in research, thus creating a model of extant knowledge that can inform policy and practice.