Who should attend: Law Enforcement, Fire Department, EMTs, First Responders working in Stark County.
About this event:
Stark County Mental Health & Addiction Recovery supports the Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training of law enforcement professionals in our community. Crucial to reducing violence and ensuring successful intervention of mental health and substance use situations, officers are trained in proven and effective communication techniques.
The CIT model was first developed and implemented in 1988 by the Memphis, Tennessee Police Department. The Team was developed to address the special challenges to law enforcement posed by persons with mental illness and to better serve the community.
Local training is led by StarkMHAR and Law Enforcement Partners and involves area mental health/drug and alcohol service providers, NAMI of Stark County, and consumers of mental health/drug and alcohol services and their families. This specialized training has the following goals:
- To better prepare police officers to handle crises involving people with mental illness and substance use disorders
- To increase mental health/substance use consumer safety
- To increase law enforcement officer safety
- To increase the feeling of safety in the general community
- To make the mental health/drug and alcohol system more understandable, accessible and responsive to law enforcement to the greatest extent possible with community resources
- To divert persons with mental illness/substance use disorders to the mental health/substance use system, when appropriate, and not to incarceration
Since 2004, Stark County’s CIT Training program has certified hundreds of officers and first responders. Comprehensive 40-hour courses have been provided twice each calendar year. Law enforcement officers are selected by their Chiefs, Sheriff or their designers to attend this training. Participants should be volunteers and ideally should have good communication and interpersonal skills. The goal for all law enforcement agencies is to have, at a minimum, 25% of their first responders trained.
Location – Stark County Law Enforcement Training Center
Cost – This is a free training.
Education credits – Not Applicable.
Registration: Limited space, please register by November 1, 2021
Conference Line: +1 513-395-0022
Conference ID: 272 281 533#
Who should attend: Open.
About this event: The Cultural Competency Training (CCT) will cover topics that are fundamental to cultural competency and cultural humility, which will assist with the understanding of the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) and develop skills in understanding diverse communities. The CCT curriculum includes but is not limited to: Compelling Reasons for Cultural Competence, The Dynamics of Diversity, The Impact of Personal Culture on Communication, The Cultural Bumps, and Communicating Effectively through an Interpreter.
Learning Objectives:
- Define the concept of cultural competency and its relevance to your role and your organization’s mission.
- Establish a clear and shared understanding of the concepts of culture and healthy equity.
- Develop an awareness of the impact of culture on human development and dynamics.
- Develop an awareness of the impact of power on social, institutional, and individual relationships.
- Develop practical applications of the tools of cultural competency.
- Establish the importance and relevance of culturally and linguistically appropriate health care.
- Understanding and being able to apply Cultural Humility.
Cost: Free
Location: First Christian Church – Heritage Hall
Education Credits: Pending
Registration: Limited space. Please register by November 12, 2021.
The Opiate Task Force is a community based coalition with the purpose of reducing opiate use, abuse, overdose and deaths in Stark County. It is open to anyone interested in being a part of a group of people concerned about, and willing to address the epidemic of prescription drugs and specifically, opiates in the community and in the State of Ohio.
Conference Line: +1 513-395-0022
Conference ID:272 281 533#
Conference Line: +1 513-395-0022
Conference ID: 272 281 533#
StarkMHAR Conference call Board Meeting on Thursday, December 16, 2021 at 4 pm. All public, Board members and staff can participate via conference line.
Dial the following phone number: 1-513-395-0022
Conference ID: 349 798 766#
The Opiate Task Force is a community based coalition with the purpose of reducing opiate use, abuse, overdose and deaths in Stark County. It is open to anyone interested in being a part of a group of people concerned about, and willing to address the epidemic of prescription drugs and specifically, opiates in the community and in the State of Ohio.
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