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• Law Enforcement Subcommittee: In addition to
recognizing the Crisis Intervention Team training
milestone of 3,000 graduates (see photo, below),
created a series of workshops for law enforcement
officers in conjunction with the NAMI Ohio 2008
Annual Conference.
• Psychiatry & the Courts Subcommittee: Continued to
arrange site visits and presentations on mental health
courts for third- and fourth-year psychiatry residents at
Ohio medical schools.
Justice Stratton (above, center) and others celebrate
Ohio having trained 3,000 Crisis Intervention Team (CIT)
officers. The July event celebrated officers from 64
counties, representing 232 police departments and 48
sheriff departments, who received CIT training. Justice
Stratton chairs the Supreme Court Advisory Committee
on Mental Illness & the Courts.
We need to encourage
everyone to recognize
the real successes
of CIT. Every time
a person in crisis
receives appropriate
treatment in the
community ... Every
time a first responder
intervenes with a
person in crisis and
safely completes their
shift ... Every time
a friend or family
member calls and
asks for a CIT-trained
officer to assist
someone in need,
there is progress.
— Justice Evelyn
Lundberg Stratton
2008 Annual Report • The Supreme Court of Ohio
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