Unidentified speaker describes CIT training aimed at earlier intervention
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An unidentified speaker described learning about services and training intended to help people before they reach crisis, saying the aim of “CIT” is to intervene earlier.
The speaker said they are cataloging available supports to bring back to their department: “I start learning about all these things that we can offer people. I’m able to take these back and … deliver them to the department and say, we have all of these things at our fingertips.” They framed the work as a matter of connecting people to resources and asked how to operationalize those connections.
The speaker said the work also requires learning how to communicate with people in need: “And then, you know, it’s the questions and learning how to talk to somebody.” They added that the stated goal of “CIT” (the transcript uses the acronym but does not expand it) is rapid, pre-crisis intervention: “when you get to a run of somebody that’s in crisis, the goal is to bring them pre crisis as fast as we possibly can.”
The speaker cautioned that the goal cannot be met if staff or responders are themselves overwhelmed: “Well, we can’t do that if we’re also in crisis.” No formal motions, votes, or policy decisions were referenced in the recording.
The record contains only this brief, single-speaker discussion and does not identify the speaker, the department referenced, or any next steps.
The speaker said they are cataloging available supports to bring back to their department: “I start learning about all these things that we can offer people. I’m able to take these back and … deliver them to the department and say, we have all of these things at our fingertips.” They framed the work as a matter of connecting people to resources and asked how to operationalize those connections.
The speaker said the work also requires learning how to communicate with people in need: “And then, you know, it’s the questions and learning how to talk to somebody.” They added that the stated goal of “CIT” (the transcript uses the acronym but does not expand it) is rapid, pre-crisis intervention: “when you get to a run of somebody that’s in crisis, the goal is to bring them pre crisis as fast as we possibly can.”
The speaker cautioned that the goal cannot be met if staff or responders are themselves overwhelmed: “Well, we can’t do that if we’re also in crisis.” No formal motions, votes, or policy decisions were referenced in the recording.
The record contains only this brief, single-speaker discussion and does not identify the speaker, the department referenced, or any next steps.
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