The Open Doors outreach services vary from employment and school support, transportation, referral to doctors, mental health therapist and counsellors, and other community agencies and organizations
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The Crisis Intervention Resource Team staff will provide person centered, trauma informed support to Mental Health crisis calls within the community.
Crisis intervention The CIRT staff will support the client to intervene in and subsequently reduce crisis including, but not limited to support with de-escalations and interventions within the community. This would reduce the impact of trauma, suicide ideation, de-escalate before force or weapons are involved, and model the de-escalation process to the clients and community thereby creating capacity.
Connection to resources The CIRT staff would communicate with the Youth and Adult Navigators to collaborate should the client already be on the Navigators case load, or should they require being on the caseload.
Interagency Participation/ Collaboration The CIRT staff will participate in interagency meetings. Through triaging and navigating, the CIRT staff will appropriately create dialogue with service providers and provide the overarching case management. This will reduce pressure on other resources (mental health, RCMP), allowing for cohesive responses to prevention and intervention to occur.
Allow those who have lost a loved one to share their struggles with others who have experienced a similar loss. The Open Doors Bereavement Support Groups are “peer” groups, made up of people who have the same experiences. Led by an Open Doors Crisis Intervention Resource Team member with support from Elders in the community.