On your worst day, Fiona Stevenson hopes she’ll be called to your side.
Stevenson is a member of Interior Health’s Integrated Crisis Response Team, which was introduced this year and pairs front-line workers with local police when responding to mental health calls. Four clinicians were placed in Nelson, Trail, Cranbrook and Williams Lake.
Whereas previously an officer might answer a call for help on their own, now they have a trained health-care worker next to them.
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