What is the Community-Led Crisis Response Team?
The Community-Led Crisis Response Team (CLCR), a peer-assisted care program, is a mobile crisis response team led by persons with lived/living experience and mental health professionals, who are able to de-escalate crises and develop community care plans with persons experiencing crisis.
The CLCR Team is an alternate approach to responding to someone in crisis that focuses on health, well-being and community support. Utilizing a community-based, client-centered, trauma-informed response, this service is an alternative to a police response.
CLCR is delivered by a team of AVI Staff and is funded by the Province of British Columbia and the BC branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association.
At present, the Community-Led Crisis Response Team has soft-launched to specific community, mental health and substance use related services in the Victoria community. At this time, the team is engaged in carefully providing crisis de-escalation and support services and are participating in community feedback to ensure an equitable, transparent and culturally safe service is provided.
We look forward to becoming a service available to the general public in the future.
For inquiries related to the CLCR Program Contact Lacey Mesley at lacey.mesley@avi.org.