Résumé
"The Building Capacity: Mental Health and Police Project (BC:MHAPP) was initiated in February 2005 with a mandate of developing a process to address emergency response to people with mental illness in six communities in the province of BC (Cranbrook, Delta,Nanaimo, Richmond, Vancouver and Williams Lake). The initial project was funded by the BC Mental Health and Addiction Services, Provincial Health Services Authority and the Vancouver Foundation and the BC Mental Health and Addiction Services PHSA funded the evaluation. Each community was supported to establish a steering committee of relevant representatives from the sectors that work most closely with mentally ill people when they are in crisis (e.g., police/RCMP, mental health service providers, consumers, family members, hospitals, ambulance and other first response services). The steering committee was meant to come together regularly over a six month period to discuss what currently happens in their community when a mentally ill person is in crisis and to develop an action plan to address identified problems."--Executive Summary