Your Support Services Network - Mental Health and Developmental Services - Short-Term Crisis Beds - Newmarket

A safe bed program intended to divert persons in a mental health and/or addictions crisis from incarceration, the justice system, and/or unnecessary hospitalization by providing them with voluntary community crisis accommodation and support. These service recipients should be considered unsuitable for hospital admission by medical professionals, and inappropriate for arrest and detention by police, but in need of supportive, short-term mental health residential placement. Individuals who are 16 years of age and older, with a mental disorder (diagnosis not required) who are in crisis with police involvement, are able to be safely supported in the community, are not at risk of harming themselves or others, and are voluntarily willing to abide by the requirements of the safe bed program.