I would say you're right. Initially, to contain things is a good idea, but that SWAT team, or whatever, mental crisis team, is going to leave eventually, and that's not going to solve any problems. If there's a suicide, if there's fear of contagion and so on, it might contain that, but it's not a long-term solution.
I know the government has invested heavily just recently in the mental wellness teams, which hold more potential, if there are enough of them. But the idea there is you have a sustainable, community-based team that can provide this ongoing support. The difficulty is we have 600-and-some first nations alone, and then there are the Métis communities and Inuit communities, so one team is never going to have the local knowledge. At best, I think there were about a dozen that were based on already existing sorts of community projects that were pretty successful, based on the evaluation I read. But again, they struggled with human resources, with how to maintain those workers, some of whom didn't have much training; and once they had it they went off and found better jobs, full-time jobs. For others, burnout occurred.
Logistically, I just can't see bringing in outside people. No matter how many teams you have they're never going to have local knowledge because, at best, they're going to be representing 10 different communities, or trying to provide services to 10 or 20, whatever the math is. I just can't see how it's going to work. The needs from community to community vary so much.