Switch on Globalnews.ca tomorrow morning to watch Asante Haughton expand on Toronto’s 2021 Vital Signs Report @torontofdn Read & watch more here: torontofoundation.ca/vitalsigns2021/

In February 2021, Toronto City Council promised to embed the Community Crisis Support Service citywide through 4 new pilots and redirected interventions for vulnerable people. Let’s hold City Council accountable! Read more and take action at the link in our bio.

Join us in holding the City of Toronto accountable to funding and developing non-police mental health crisis programs! Head to reachouttoronto.ca/take-action

Join our virtual phone zap⚡️This Thursday Dec 2 at 7pm, hop on a zoom call with us and use our pre-drafted scripts to remind Toronto City Council that they need to create and deliver the mental health crisis response systems that we need. fb.me/e/1oOHYEQzV

Last year, City Council committed to developing new non-police initiatives. On January 20th, help us remind City Council that new budget investments should focus on non-police interventions, not more policing. Join us: fb.me/e/bjY1vnFLy

Let’s make sure the Toronto City Councillors develop and fund the new programs they promised, and take the policing out of health care. Join us for a phone zap this week, on Thursday Jan 20th at 6PM, a week before City Councillors meet to discuss budget: fb.me/e/bjY1vnFLy

Join us for our third community phone zap on Wednesday February 9! We have two times available, at 3:00 & 6:00 PM Just join, dial, and read out our pre-drafted script! Sign up for our event here: fb.me/e/39nQ7qSeU

The Reach Out Response Network is holding its 2022 Annual General Meeting on November 9th at 6:30pm to report back on the past year and chart a new path forward. Join us and help shape the future of RORN! Register now: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

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RORN Looks ahead to 2023 - mailchi.mp/reachouttoront…

Kudos to Dianne Saxe - Toronto City Council Ward 11, UR for tough questions about public safety budget. Where are we on Auditor General TO report saying non-police response is better for people in crisis & cheaper overall? torontoauditor.ca/report/review-… Why spend $48M on police rather than expanding crisis response? #TOpoli

Good point @ChrisMoiseTO Until recently, the City reported the Police budget as a stand-alone item, as it's the single largest cost. Now it's rolled ups with other public safety costs like Fire and EMS - why the change? #TOpoli

Thanks Alejandra Bravo for asking one of the big questions of the budget - why not invest more in services that support people in crisis? If there is $48M for enforcement, why only $9M for shelter, $1M to cover shortfall on the CURRENT non-police crisis response pilots #TOpoli

Trying to avoid the scrutiny of residents who would be shocked by how much of their taxes goes into paying cops.

Let John Tory know Toronto needs balance in community safety budgets. His plan, w/ $48 million for policing & no funds for expanding highly successful mental health pilots is more expensive & less effective #topoli #Police Wrtie to the Mayor now at bit.ly/BalanceSafety

Toronto is on the brink of a big step forward, a City-wide rollout of non-police response to mental health Crises. Lear more at bit.ly/RORNcity-wide

ICYMI @mayoroliviachow & Staffer Denise Andrea Campbell take @cityofto ExecCtte through material on Non-police responses to #mentalhealth crises - Cttee then votes to expand service over WHOLE CITY! Big win for vulnerable people and something Reach Out Response Network has worked hard for

ICYMI - Non-police interventions for mental earth crisis goes City-wide! Learn more at: mailchi.mp/reachouttoront…

Catch our year-end newsletter as we get closer to a CITY-WIDE crisis response for mental health. Bit.ly/RORN2023YearEnd A great time to make a year0end donation to RORN - just visit Bit.ly/FundRORN

Join the City budget conversation to press for full funding for non-police mental health crisis support get details at mailchi.mp/reachouttoront…