Basis Crisis Intervention Course
Mon, Nov 27
|Karen Preservati Training Center
Trigon is conducting a 40 hour basic Crisis Intervention Training. This event is not open for public registration and is being hosted Southern Highlands Community Mental Health Center.
Time & Location
Nov 27, 2023, 8:00 AM – Dec 01, 2023, 6:00 AM
Karen Preservati Training Center , 704 Maple St, Princeton, WV 24740, USA
About the event
The Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Program is the premier police-based, mental health crisis response initiative in the nation. CIT is an interdisciplinary, collaborative, community program that enhances law enforcement capability to respond to situations involving individuals with symptomatic behavioral health issues. CIT creates a coalition of local stakeholders, including law enforcement, emergency dispatchers, mental health treatment providers, consumers of mental health services and others (such as hospitals, emergency medical care facilities, non-law enforcement first responders, and family advocates) to oversee and guide the program.
The program provides 40 hours of advanced training for law enforcement first responders and other team members, enhances coordination between the local criminal justice and behavioral health systems and improves access to services for persons with behavioral health concerns who come into contact with law enforcement.
In the course of their regular duties, law enforcement and other first responders or corrections and jail personnel often interact…