COMMUNITY WELLNESS AND SAFETY

Commitment 4.1.3 - We will enhance support to communities in crisis by providing appropriate responses to suicide, which includes:

• Establishing a support team of headquarters and regional staff, to form a crisis response network that can respond and provide support to communities.
• Providing specialized trauma informed training and critical incidence stress debriefing (CISD) training to the crisis response network.
• Building surge capacity so there is coverage for team members participating on the network.
• Utilizing the expertise of the crisis response network team members to promote enhanced suicide intervention activities.
• Develop a program monitoring framework

The Department will enhance the approach to suicide prevention with the development of a Territorial Suicide Prevention and Crisis Response Network. A comprehensive Territorial Suicide Prevention and Crisis Response Network (TSPCRN) will take a whole of community approach (involving all relevant community partners) and encompass a focus on prevention, intervention and postvention. In alignment with the Strategic Framework for Mental Health and Addictions Recovery, all activities and initiatives will be trauma informed recovery oriented and culturally relevant.