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Volume 15, Issue 1
Barbara Schneider Foundations Hosts C.I.T. (Crisis Intervention Team) Training
The Barbara Schneider Foundation (BSF) and the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) have been working together to improve mental health crisis response since June 2000 when Barbara Schneider, who had bipolar disorder, died in a tragedy that they both vowed to never let happen again. To further this effort, the Barbara Schneider Foundation is sponsoring the First Annual Minnesota CIT (Crisis Intervention Team) Conference on Monday, February 27, at the Holiday Inn Select in Bloomington, Minnesota. This one-day conference is being organized in cooperation with the Burnsville Police Department and MPD's CIT Unit.
The conference will be an opportunity for law enforcement leadership and officers from around Minnesota to learn more about the CIT model. It will also be an opportunity for stakeholders in mental health crisis response from health care, mental health, courts, criminal justice, and corrections to learn more about CIT and have a chance to develop stronger relationships with law enforcement to improve the response to those in mental health crisis in their communities.
The one-day conference will include exciting speakers on CIT training, the overlap of mental health and public safety response, communication, and de-escalation skills. A highlight of the day will be a demonstration of role-playing by Crisis Company actors that simulate mental health crisis response scenarios and response techniques and strategies that are used in CIT training. This day-long conference will serve as the first day of a 40 Hour CIT Training that will continue Tuesday–Friday of the same week.
The fee for the First Annual Minnesota CIT Conference on February 27 is $75 and includes all presentations, lunch, afternoon snack, and free parking. The fee for the 40 Hour CIT Training is $400 and includes the Monday conference plus the Tuesday–Friday training, lunch all five days, free parking and all training materials and presentations. For more information, call Mark Anderson, Executive Director, Barbara Schneider Foundation at 612-801-8572, or call Officer Paul Gillies, Minneapolis PD CIT Coordinator at 612-673-5776.
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Saint Paul, MN 55102
Phone: 651-644-7333
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