A new course teaches Ontario police recruits and the public how to defuse a mental health crisis.

Ontario now offers an 18-hour course that teaches police recruits how to deal with people suffering from a mental health crisis, marking the first time such training has been offered to the province's law enforcement cadets.  In addition to police receiving this training, Stay Safe has already started to provide this course entitled Public-Police Interactions Training to new industry trainers.

The course pulls on a combination of years of research, key recommendations from coroner's inquests as well as community consultations, according to Jennifer Lavoie, an associate professor of psychology and criminology at Wilfrid Laurier University and co-lead of the mental health crisis response training program

Today we speak to President of Stay Safe on this new course he is teaching that is being adopted by security instructors across Canada.

Is your organization ready for this new change?  Check out this episode and find out!

Ladies and Gentlemen – Steven Summerville

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