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Public Safety committee  I can certainly speak to that, being a stigma researcher. I think you raise a really important point. The fact that someone has a mental illness does not mean they're stigmatized. They're perhaps diagnosed with a stigmatizing condition, but the literature reveals there's a range:

October 29th, 2009Committee meeting

James Livingston

Public Safety committee  In the utopia you've built, I'd also like to see health literacy, as people might not know they're experiencing symptoms of mental illness. That's a separate issue from stigma. So it's a matter of having people, the inmate population, being more mental health literate about what'

October 29th, 2009Committee meeting

James Livingston

Public Safety committee  I would just echo that as well. We're focusing on mental health and substance use, and that's what my report does, but this is within a holistic environment where people have HIV/AIDS and other forms of diseases, dental diseases and what not. So considering mental health and addi

October 29th, 2009Committee meeting

James Livingston

Public Safety committee  There are two streams here. There's training available for correctional officers, but clinical staff also provide mental health services. Your statement not to move forward until we know the training of correctional officers is blurring the issue, with respect. You can still de

October 29th, 2009Committee meeting

James Livingston

Public Safety committee  Yes, no problem.

October 29th, 2009Committee meeting

James Livingston

Public Safety committee  Thank you for the question. The problem that this particular “solution” addresses is a system-level problem with creating parallel correctional mental health services with other community-based services. Who pays for it? Who's responsible for it? This solution places the onus an

October 29th, 2009Committee meeting

James Livingston

October 29th, 2009Committee meeting

James Livingston

Public Safety committee  Yes, and maybe I can provide you with a little bit of context around that statement. Like I said, I've been researching stigma for people who are legally mandated to attend treatment services in the community throughout B.C. and more specifically in Vancouver, including the downt

October 29th, 2009Committee meeting

James Livingston

Public Safety committee  I follow two groups of people. One of them is in the general population. They are a civil mental health population who are on what some people call a community treatment order; in B.C., it's an extended leave. They are civilly committed to hospital and discharged to the community

October 29th, 2009Committee meeting

James Livingston

Public Safety committee  I wouldn't say so specifically about my population, because once again, it's not an offender population, but is placing people in a correctional institution an alternative? Yes, it's an alternative. There are other alternatives as well. I don't think it's the only alternative.

October 29th, 2009Committee meeting

James Livingston

Public Safety committee  It is, most definitely. Incarceration and a correctional system exist to protect the public, as well as to respect human rights and for general purposes of deterrence. There are a lot of sentencing principles in play here. One of them has to be that there is that sort of alternat

October 29th, 2009Committee meeting

James Livingston

Public Safety committee  Yes, they could be. My report just outlines them. They could be already applied. And it might be of interest to the committee that I'm aware that a recent federal-territorial-provincial committee on prisons and mental health has had a look at my report and has built it into a s

October 29th, 2009Committee meeting

James Livingston

Public Safety committee  No. As I said, I'm a novice in terms of what's happening on the ground, and I'm not an expert. I'm an expert on very little, especially having to do with the operations of corrections.

October 29th, 2009Committee meeting

James Livingston

Public Safety committee  I'll talk just generally about that as well. This is also related to stigma, and health professionals feel the stigma. I work in the Forensic Psychiatric Services Commission in B.C., and the stigma inherent among forensic psychologists and forensic nurses dealing with this partic

October 29th, 2009Committee meeting

James Livingston

Public Safety committee  I can't say specifically, but I can tell you that delivering treatment to people who want to be treated is easier than delivering treatment to people who don't want to be treated. That's certainly a factor as well.

October 29th, 2009Committee meeting

James Livingston