Summary
"The Victoria Integrated Community Outreach Team officially commenced operations on 01 January 2007. This team was established through the cooperation of senior managers from the Vancouver Island Health Authority, Ministry of Employment and Income Assistance (now Ministry of Housing and Social Development), Community Corrections Branch of the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General and the Victoria Police Department. VICOT’s mandate is to: Provide integrated service delivery to mentally disordered/concurrent disordered individuals in the downtown Victoria area who are not accessing service on a consistent basis; Enhance protection of the public through the provision of supervision services to mutual clients; Integrate case management focusing on needs related to: addictions, physical and mental health; access and retention in mental health services; housing access/retention; access to financial supports; offending and incarceration; providing the mechanisms of service deliver directly and not broker services through other parties."--VICOT annual report 2008.