Trainings & Events

Dial the following phone number: 1-513-395-0022

Conference ID: 985 479 492#

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Who should attend:
This training is exclusively for Fire and EMS professionals working in Stark County.

Description:
Stark County Mental Health & Addiction Recovery supports the Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training of Fire and EMS professionals in our community. Crucial to reducing violence and ensuring successful intervention of mental health and substance use situations, Fire and EMS personnel are trained in proven and effective communication and de-escalation techniques.

Executive Committee Conference call Meeting

Dial the following phone number: 1-513-395-0022

Conference ID:

840 667 289#

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Who should attend:
Open to the general public.

Description:
Join us for an interactive workshop including a presentation from guest speaker, Bryson Davis, followed by a moderated panel discussion. Audience questions are encouraged. This workshop will help participants gain insight of the challenges young adults encounter through their testimonials, inform and provide awareness of the available mental health and behavioral health resources for young adults, and explain how using their voices help navigate and improve our systems and services provided.

Cost
Free

Continuing Education Units
Not applicable

Registration
Limited space, please register by November 24, 2023

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Who should attend:
Any Stark County individual in the mental health, medical, and human service professions who engage families in safety planning during times of heightened suicide risk.

Description:
Suicide claims the lives of almost 50,000 Americans per year, with suicide rates climbing steadily over the past 25 years. Existing prevention programs have focused primarily on improving knowledge and attitudes about suicide and improving treatment access for at-risk individuals (Brent & Brown, 2015). Those efforts, while important, may be relatively ineffective in preventing deaths resulting from suicidal risk that develops very rapidly. Additionally, most existing suicide prevention programs do not consider the use of highly lethal methods such as firearms as a factor in the fatality of suicide attempts. Firearms account for 55% of suicides in the United States, and evidence suggests that ready access firearms is associated with higher rates of suicide fatalities. Given the ready access to firearms that is common in American homes, the more widespread use of means safety interventions may be a necessary tool to reverse the accelerating rates of suicide.

In response to these concerns, the Counseling on Access to Lethal Means (CALM) clinical workshop is a 3-hour training that aims to those in mental health, medical, and human service professions to counsel individuals and their families to temporarily reduce access to firearms and dangerous medications during times of heightened suicide risk. CALM clinical workshops feature four components. In part one, participants will be introduced to the means safety prevention framework, providing a rationale based on a large body of empirical evidence and demonstrating how it strengthens broader suicide prevention strategies. Participants will also explore how characteristics of suicidal processes often can be disrupted by reducing immediate access to lethal means. In part two, participants will learn how to incorporate means safety steps into existing risk assessment and crisis response protocols as well as the range of options for increasing means safety. Additionally, participants will learn how to utilize means safety approaches flexibly and creatively to reduce access to means other than firearms and medications that are related to a suicide plan. Part three focuses on effective communication around means safety. Participants will practice utilizing motivational interviewing techniques to have collaborative discussions around means safety planning, with an emphasis on temporariness and increasing the safety of the at-risk individual. Participants will also learn to employ culturally sensitive and technically accurate language around discussions of firearms. Finally, part four gives participants the opportunity to integrate the knowledge and skills discussed in the first three parts in a series of role plays based on actual cases seen clinical settings.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to list reasons why including means reduction strategies is a critical component of responding to suicide risk.
2. Participants will be able to competently discuss strategies for means reduction with individuals at risk for suicide and their families.
3. Participants will be able to incorporate means reduction strategies into existing evidence-based safety planning interventions.

Conference Line: +1 513-395-0022

Conference ID: ID: 229 423 612 523

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Who should attend:
Emergency Service Dispatchers currently working with any Stark County law enforcement agency.

Description:
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, dispatchers 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.
Emergency dispatchers are a critical link in the CIT program and may include call-takers, dispatchers and 911 operators. The success of CIT depends on their familiarity with the CIT program, knowledge of how to recognize a CIT call involving a behavioral crisis event, ability to solicit information that will help the community member and the responding CIT Officer, and appropriate dispatch of CIT Officers.

To join call:  Phone #: +1 513-395-0022    Conf. ID#: 952 910 455#

Team A members are expected to be present at the February and August meetings while Team B members are expected to be present at the May and November meetings. Committee members are welcome and encourage to attend all Steering Committee meetings.

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