Seminar will help police with mental health calls
Dozens of first responders and mental health professionals finished up a week of crisis intervention training today, where they learned how to efficiently and compassionately handle those with mental health issues when called to an emergency.
The training was organized by the Butler County-based Southwest Regional Crisis Intervention Team, as it has been each year since 2012.
The participants, who are mainly municipal and campus police officers, received 40 hours of training at Family Pathways on Brugh Avenue.
Sessions taught by experts during the five days of training included developmental disabilities, veterans panel PTSD, rights and civil commitment, suicide prevention, vicarious trauma, psychotropic medicines, and borderline and other personality disorders.
Attendees also participated in role-playing potential scenes involving mental health issues and toured a residential facility and the Grapevine Drop-In Center.
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