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GXC 2025 Online Virtual Conference - Mental Health Without Borders

Bridging Public Health & Policing: Diversion & Case Management Models

Tony Duffin 🇮🇪
Jason Kew 🇬🇧
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Description

This session explores how public health and policing collaborate to deliver effective diversion and case management responses for people with complex and multiple needs e.g. mental health issues, drug use, homelessness, street engaged individuals. etc. The session will explore systemic, operational, and cultural factors that enable successful collaboration between public health and policing, including leadership, data sharing, and community engagement. A 15-minute Q&A will follow the presentation, allowing participants to engage with the presenters and explore implementation strategies relevant to their own contexts.

Educational Goal

This presentation equips participants with the knowledge and practical strategies to strengthen collaboration between public health and policing in addressing the needs of individuals with complex challenges. By examining diversion and case management models, participants will enhance their ability to improve integrated service delivery and improve community health and public safety outcomes in their own settings.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

  • Describe two operational models that exemplify public health & policing collaboration in responding to complex needs and drug possession offenses.

  • Identify key enablers and barriers to building and sustaining effective interagency diversion and case management partnerships.

  • Analyze the application of harm reduction principles within policing and health-led interventions.

  • Apply lessons from these models to improve integrated service delivery and public safety outcomes in their own settings.

Target Audience

  • Addiction Professional
  • Counselor
  • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • Nurse
  • Physician
  • Psychologist
  • Social Worker

Presenters

Tony Duffin 🇮🇪
Tony Duffin is a social policy expert with over 30 years’ experience in public health and harm reduction. From 2005 to 2025, he was CEO of Ana Liffey Drug Project, Ireland’s first harm reduction service (est. 1982), where he led rights-based, person-centred responses to drug use and social support. Tony has worked across frontline outreach, policy reform, and international collaboration—always focused on reducing drug-related harm and improving access to services for people with complex needs. He now works independently with organisations across Europe and beyond. He is Chair of Correlation – European Harm Reduction Network, a Trustee of the Harm Reduction International Board, and an Adjunct Teaching Fellow at Trinity College Dublin.
Jason Kew 🇬🇧
Jason Kew is a former Senior Police Leader and Drug Strategy Lead in Thames Valley Police, and UK Home Office. With an extensive career in Policing and Health, he has led the development of pre-arrest drug diversion schemes. Now, with the Centre for Justice Innovation, he works with a variety of international organisations, and the UNODC, helping implement innovative harm reduction and social justice strategies. Jason is a guest lecturer at the University of South Wales and Queen Mary's St Bartholomew's.

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  • GXC Events - The Global Exchange Conference