The program is being expanded to all 10 provincial facilities, including the Vancouver Island Correctional Centre in Saanich.
More people leaving B.C.’s jails will have access to a transition team to help them get the mental health and substance support they need when returning to their communities.
The expanded teams will connect people to services such as mental health and substance use treatment, after-hours crisis response and psychiatric clinical, social supports, according to the ministry. “We know also that without proper mental health and substance use support, people are much more likely to re-offend,” Malcolmson said. “That’s bad for communities and bad for people that have been caught in a cycle of reincarnation.”
Asked where people would be sent for treatment, given stretched resources and reports of long waits to get into facilities, Malcolmson didn’t directly answer the question.
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