Winnipeg Is Designing a Different Answer to Mental Health 911 Calls

City council agreed to begin developing the Winnipeg Community Crisis Response Model, a service aimed at better helping people who call 911 with mental health and addictions concerns, according to Global News Canada. A crisis call is not always a police matter, and a response system built for emergencies of one kind has quietly been carrying the other. Voting to design the model is the easy half; the harder question is what actually shows up when someone dials.