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A new initiative from Hotel-Dieu Grace Healthcare and the Windsor Police Service launched Monday that will assist Windsor residents in a mental health and addiction-related crisis. The Mobile Crisis Rapid Respond Team, or MCRRT, pairs a trained HDGH mental health social worker with a frontline police officer to provide a health response to a health problem in real-time. The MCRRT will be at the forefront of responding to mental health related calls from persons in crisis diverting from hospitals, primarily emergency departments as well as the justice system. “The Mobile Crisis Rapid Response Team will bring a compassionate response through an important partnership within two systems – healthcare and the justice system. When responding to a call, the focus will be on de-escalation, stabilization, providing counselling and then hopefully an ongoing connection to further community supports should the individual be willing,” said Dr. Sonja Grbevski, HDGH Vice President o ....
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