The city of Dauphin will be presenting a resolution at the Association of Manitoiba Municipalities convention later this month.
Deputy City Manager Lisa Gaudet says the resolution asks AMM members to support a request by the city for the province to follow through on a promise to conduct a comprehensive review of Manitoba's Mental Health Act.
"The resolution calls for the province to review and modernize the Mental health act, with input from municipalities and front line partners. It also asks the province to fund and implement mobile crisis teams and mental health transport options, to reduce the burden on police who wait in hospital when those safety risks exist. And to use virtual psychiatric assessments to avoid unnecessary transfers, and to also expand crisis stabilization units and rural mental health care."
Gaudet says there needs to be a health-based response to mental health cases, not a law-based one.
She adds the more support this resolution gets from municipalities, the more impact it will have on the province.
