More resources and supports for mental health coming via expansion of City of Toronto’s Toronto Community Crisis Service

Today, the City of Toronto held a job fair to kick-off recruitment for more than 100 new staff to scale up the Toronto Community Crisis Service (TCCS) in support of its city-wide expansion this year. Positions will sit across the service’s five partner agencies with positions for mental health and frontline crisis workers, office staff and more.

Held today, the job fair attracted more than 200 job seekers where all had the opportunity to connect with TCCS partners to learn about necessary skills and qualifications, as well as current employment opportunities. TCCS crisis workers led a panel discussion and attendees had the opportunity to ask questions and submit resumes.

More resources and supports for mental health coming via expansion of City of Toronto’s Toronto Community Crisis Service

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Recruitment remains underway with hiring opportunities available at each of the five community partner organizations, including:
•       Gerstein Crisis Centre
•       TAIBU Community Health Centre
•       Canadian Mental Health Association, Toronto Branch
•       2-Spirited People of the 1st Nations
•       Findhelp | 211 Central

Visit the City’s TCCS Community Partners webpage for more information on the hiring organizations and opportunities: www.toronto.ca/community-partners-toronto-community-crisis-service.

About the Toronto Community Crisis Service

The TCCS provides free, confidential, in-person mental health supports from mobile crisis worker teams to Toronto residents 16 years of age or older 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Launched as a pilot in early 2022, the service provides a non-police-led model of mental health crisis response that is community-based, client-centred and trauma informed. Mobile crisis teams are currently available in four areas of Toronto, and the service will expand city-wide by the end of 2024.

The expansion of the Toronto Community Crisis Service is one of the first-year priority actions in the SafeTO: Toronto’s Ten-Year Community Safety and Well-Being Plan. More information about SafeTO can be found on the City’s website: www.toronto.ca/community-safety-well-being-plan.

For more information on the TCCS, please visit the City’s Toronto Community Crisis Service webpage: www.toronto.ca/toronto-community-crisis-service.

SOURCE City of Toronto