Community Mental Health of Ottawa County partners with people with mental illness, developmental disabilities and substance use disorders and the broader community to improve lives and be a premier mental health agency in Michigan.
Resilience is the ability to recover from or adjust to misfortune or change. Certainly, the last two years of dealing with the pandemic have pushed the limits of our resiliency and yet we continue to cope, find solutions, and be hopeful. Our staff have demonstrated amazing resiliency as they work to adapt to the use of tele-health practices, adjusting work locations, and addressing staffing shortages. Our providers have persevered despite unprecedented labor shortages and management of quarantines and vaccines.
The people we serve have continued to succeed, prosper, and grow in the midst of stress and uncertainty. And we know it’s not over yet. Resiliency can be learned and developed. There are many commonsense things you can do to build your resilience; stay connected to family and friends, keep things in perspective, participate in activities that you enjoy and find relaxing.
If you need help, reach out and talk about your concerns or call us at 1-877-588-4357. In our 2021 Annual Report you will find many examples of how the people we serve, staff, and contractual providers work together to build resiliency and live better lives.
Thank you to the CMH Board, our partners, and this community for allowing us to do this great work.
The Crisis Intervention Team is a community-based program in partnership with local law enforcement agencies, central dispatch, and other stakeholders. The CIT is comprised of a steering committee which oversees the work of a coordinator, two CMH mental health clinicians, and assigned officers from the Holland Police Department, Zeeland Police Department, and Ottawa County Sheriff’s Department. All team members complete a 40-hour training in the CIT model which is nationally recognized for enhancing crisis response in the community.
The CIT model began in Memphis in the 1980s and recommends 25% of a community’s law enforcement complete specialized training in: mental health and substance use disorders, crisis de-escalation, and community-specific services and resources. Ottawa County implemented co-response using the CIT model in the Fall 2021, co-response partners a mental health clinician with a CIT officer to provide more intensive interventions to what are often complex cases.
These interventions include connecting people in a mental health crisis to needed resources and offering mental health assessments and evaluation in order to prevent people being incarcerated or hospitalized. The CIT Steering Committee plans to have additional officers trained in the model in 2022.
Community Mental Health of Ottawa County partners with people with mental illness, developmental disabilities and substance use disorders and the broader community to improve lives and be a premier mental health agency in Michigan.
Resilience is the ability to recover from or adjust to misfortune or change. Certainly, the last two years of dealing with the pandemic have pushed the limits of our resiliency and yet we continue to cope, find solutions, and be hopeful. Our staff have demonstrated amazing resiliency as they work to adapt to the use of tele-health practices, adjusting work locations, and addressing staffing shortages. Our providers have persevered despite unprecedented labor shortages and management of quarantines and vaccines.
The people we serve have continued to succeed, prosper, and grow in the midst of stress and uncertainty. And we know it’s not over yet. Resiliency can be learned and developed. There are many commonsense things you can do to build your resilience; stay connected to family and friends, keep things in perspective, participate in activities that you enjoy and find relaxing.
If you need help, reach out and talk about your concerns or call us at 1-877-588-4357. In our 2021 Annual Report you will find many examples of how the people we serve, staff, and contractual providers work together to build resiliency and live better lives.
Thank you to the CMH Board, our partners, and this community for allowing us to do this great work.
The Crisis Intervention Team is a community-based program in partnership with local law enforcement agencies, central dispatch, and other stakeholders. The CIT is comprised of a steering committee which oversees the work of a coordinator, two CMH mental health clinicians, and assigned officers from the Holland Police Department, Zeeland Police Department, and Ottawa County Sheriff’s Department. All team members complete a 40-hour training in the CIT model which is nationally recognized for enhancing crisis response in the community.
The CIT model began in Memphis in the 1980s and recommends 25% of a community’s law enforcement complete specialized training in: mental health and substance use disorders, crisis de-escalation, and community-specific services and resources. Ottawa County implemented co-response using the CIT model in the Fall 2021, co-response partners a mental health clinician with a CIT officer to provide more intensive interventions to what are often complex cases.
These interventions include connecting people in a mental health crisis to needed resources and offering mental health assessments and evaluation in order to prevent people being incarcerated or hospitalized. The CIT Steering Committee plans to have additional officers trained in the model in 2022.
Community Mental Health of Ottawa County partners with people with mental illness, developmental disabilities and substance use disorders and the broader community to improve lives and be a premier mental health agency in Michigan.
Resilience is the ability to recover from or adjust to misfortune or change. Certainly, the last two years of dealing with the pandemic have pushed the limits of our resiliency and yet we continue to cope, find solutions, and be hopeful. Our staff have demonstrated amazing resiliency as they work to adapt to the use of tele-health practices, adjusting work locations, and addressing staffing shortages. Our providers have persevered despite unprecedented labor shortages and management of quarantines and vaccines.
The people we serve have continued to succeed, prosper, and grow in the midst of stress and uncertainty. And we know it’s not over yet. Resiliency can be learned and developed. There are many commonsense things you can do to build your resilience; stay connected to family and friends, keep things in perspective, participate in activities that you enjoy and find relaxing.
If you need help, reach out and talk about your concerns or call us at 1-877-588-4357. In our 2021 Annual Report you will find many examples of how the people we serve, staff, and contractual providers work together to build resiliency and live better lives.
Thank you to the CMH Board, our partners, and this community for allowing us to do this great work.
The Crisis Intervention Team is a community-based program in partnership with local law enforcement agencies, central dispatch, and other stakeholders. The CIT is comprised of a steering committee which oversees the work of a coordinator, two CMH mental health clinicians, and assigned officers from the Holland Police Department, Zeeland Police Department, and Ottawa County Sheriff’s Department. All team members complete a 40-hour training in the CIT model which is nationally recognized for enhancing crisis response in the community.
The CIT model began in Memphis in the 1980s and recommends 25% of a community’s law enforcement complete specialized training in: mental health and substance use disorders, crisis de-escalation, and community-specific services and resources. Ottawa County implemented co-response using the CIT model in the Fall 2021, co-response partners a mental health clinician with a CIT officer to provide more intensive interventions to what are often complex cases.
These interventions include connecting people in a mental health crisis to needed resources and offering mental health assessments and evaluation in order to prevent people being incarcerated or hospitalized. The CIT Steering Committee plans to have additional officers trained in the model in 2022.