1919 Magazine’s Post

As part of the NHS England’s health and justice inclusive workforce programme, we developed the non-custodial career and competence framework. This framework is helping the health and justice workforce by providing clearly outlined roles and progression routes, allowing employers and individuals to understand how they contribute to service outcomes.   Non-custodial pathways support some very crucial elements of the justice sector: ✅ Supporting rehabilitation by making sure individuals get the healthcare they need, such as help with substance abuse or mental health ✅ Helping increase out-of-court resolutions and reducing the strain on custody and detention systems ✅ Safeguarding vulnerable people and helping prevent individuals entering the criminal justice system Read the full case study: https://ow.ly/ARww50SPcvK #Framework #Workforce #JusticeServices 

Happy Reframe Friday! What do you see when you look at this pair of shoes? A pair of navy slides? These are shoes from an Ontario provincial custody facility. They represent many things to The HUB team. The lack of support for those exiting provincial facilities is a gap in service that we see in real time on a frequent basis. Folks are discharged with limited resources, ranging from medical scripts to basic needs, sometimes released in summer clothes in the middle of winter. At The HUB, we know there needs to be better engagement with correctional facilities to make discharges more seamless, safe and supportive. This trust needs to begin when the client is inside custody, as trust requires time, space opportunity to build so that when wrap around supports are offered at the gate the client is trusting their system navigator can provide suitable pathways. Collaboration in this context means connection of healthcare providers, social workers inside custody facilities, outreach teams, family members and social services. No one agency can do it all, and we need each other to support community effectively! #collaboration #engagedinstitutions

Why police it, when you can prevent it – it’s the law! Many serious crimes and victimizations will be prevented before they need police response, if #Toronto City Council takes a lawful and scientific approach to #budget2024 to stop dire risks. @oliviachow knows this and she is not alone. "What has worked in the past? How could we expand those and then we track the results. Cities like Glasgow have done it.” https://lnkd.in/gviS96Bm . It is not just Glasgow that has proven you can reduce it by 50% by using the science. Those using the knowledge and tracking are preventing violence. It is #Boston. It is #Manchester. It is UK and even US national policy. Toronto needs to scale up youth outreach, mentoring, Thrive, SNAP to name but a few. bit.ly/2lygW58 The law in Ontario is now the #Community Safety and Police Act. This law recognizes that safety is more than more policing. It requires municipalities to reduce risk factors that contribute to crime, victimization, addiction, drug overdose and suicide. Toronto has started on this route with its first plan https://lnkd.in/ejvTaPgf Policing must champion this plan too. Smart, adequate and sustained investments following the science behind this plan could reduce serious crime significantly in the next 3 years and that is just one proven way to also reduce priority 911 calls and prevent dire risks. @wendygillis @smckean @_audreymonette @Jeffrey_Brad @DLeBlancNB @ChildrenON @MichaelParsa @SNAP_CDI @alexyeamanTO

Police officers are not social workers, counsellors or mental health nurses. This is an important conversation. Police are not given this sort of training, nor should they be expected to fill these roles. It is challenging to both enforce the law as well as provide intensive support to their communities. The police have not been resourced well to do so. Are we asking the real questions about why we have a poor retention rate? Do we know how we can boost training while also reducing attrition? What I don’t want to happen is redeployment of police resources to focussing only on enforcing the law. This will leaving a vacuum not able to be filled by our current overworked, underresourced and underapprecoated social and mental health support services. To reduce crime we have to support our police but we must act on the drivers of crime. We must do everything we can to create opportunities for people to choose productive and meaningful lives. We have to have a hard look at our society about what is causing our mental health epidemic. There are a lot of answers and proposals out there but it is hard to see many plans or action from this government so far. Crime, health, education, economy all require a whole of government, whole of society approach. The people understand it, I hope the government will too. #crime #police #justice #mentalhealth #nzpol #politics #aotearoa #newzealand

Great analysis of what has been learned about sending unarmed responders instead of police to select emergencies. 🌟 Why It Matters: Equity: Tailored responses address the unique needs of marginalized communities. Public Health: Experts handle crises with care, improving outcomes and reducing stress. Trust: Builds stronger community relationships with emergency services. While scaling these programs poses challenges, the positive results so far—like reduced crime and increased community trust—show great promise. #PublicSafety #CriminalJusticeReform #Equity #MentalHealth #CommunitySupport Curious about what my favorite 911 dispatcher Brooke Bylotas thinks about this!

It seems that, because things have got so bad, that bringing up the subject of public sector reform is finally an acceptable topic of conversation. Why has it taken over 2 decades is perhaps a question for later. For the next government, and leaders, the challenge they have is to understand what systemic change actually means, and then to begin that journey. As Adam Lent mentioned, we already know how to do that. Lets hope we focus on three horizons, missions, and purpose. Engaging systemic approaches for reform, and don't remain in the realm of short term knee jerk reactions to individual problems. Having said that, some short term actions will be necessary to simply stop the rot. We have the potential to reduce spiralling demand, by dealing with the complex causes and prevention activities. We have the ability to reduce the resources needed to do this, when we finally redesign the system underlying how we have designed and manage the public sector.

See how programs are working with social workers on the front lines - with BJA funding. Do you have a story to share about a successful program in your area?

Multifactoral - a great way to describe the challenges of staff retention in Special Care: now, what are the multiple responses to deal with same? It’s not only the two and half grand that needs to be addressed.

It’s been over 2 years since I spoke to the BBC about my and others’ concerns that organised crime groups are running terrible quality ‘supported accommodation’ for some of the most vulnerable people, including victims of abuse. I went to see some badly affected residential streets with the police, learning about how some rogue landlords (whether criminal or not) are profiting off misery, making problems like addictions and mental ill health worse and escalating crime in our communities. As Assistant Commissioner I was in dialogue with the National Crime Agency (NCA), West Midlands Police and Association of Police and Crime Commissioners, to try and ensure government take the organised crime element into account when drafting new regs for so called ‘exempt accommodation’. This work needs to continue - I’m worried government aren’t sufficiently awake to this element; ensuring the law makes it harder for organised criminals to have any economic interest or ties to supported housing. I’m also worried Birmingham’s problems will spread across the West Midlands. I’ll propose to the Police Commissioner and Mayor that they collaborate with local authorities to share best practice across the region on preventing low quality supported housing, and maintain dialogue to ensure the government’s new regs restrict organised criminals as much as possible. #housing #supportedhousing #poverty #landlords #regulation #organisedcrime #moneylaundering #partnerships #mentalhealth #domesticabuse #addiction

In light of the recent stabbing of a police officer in Toronto and other injured officers and EMS responders, we need not only support them, but press local politicians to improve protections for them. Defunding EMS resources over the past two decades has had an immeasurable impact on their ability to respond quickly, effectively, and safely. This impacts the safety and security of hardworking taxpaying residents. Listening to the rhetoric you only have to look for similar examples in Canada like downtown Vancouver and other cities in the Unites States where similar failed social experiments have left city cores desolate and uninhabitable for most families. Manhattan is a prime example. Once the model of security and safety that other cities emulated, Manhattan has fallen victim to this social experiment. It is no surprise to those on the front lines protecting you while you sleep that when you leave a void, criminal elements will naturally fill that void with their own view of the world. The question begs, "What kind of city to you want?" Look up the contact details of your local councillor at https://lnkd.in/dXyGdwHr. Do you part by sending an email asking your local councillor, "What's your plan to improve support and protection of our front line EMS workers?" Lastly, when you see an EMS front line worker or caregiver, thank them for their service. It will mean the world to them.