Twenty law enforcement officers and medical professionals in Sussex County are now better equipped to deal with emergency situations relating to mental health thanks to their completion of Crisis Intervention…
What does it mean to listen? Is it the passive process of taking in sound waves? What about absorbing the context of words and the feelings behind them? Listening has…
On December 14, 2012, Mary Joy Sherlach, school psychologist at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, gave her life to protect the students she served. Her family and friends created…
Miriam Heyman, one of the co-authors of the study, said the numbers of suicide are extremely under-reported, while other more high-profile deaths make headlines. There were 46 officers who died…
Tell your friends and join CIT-NJ Middlesex County for Autism Awareness On April 22, 2018 from 11:00am to 3:00pm Please come out and see the Middlesex Prosecutor’s Office Command Post,…
Officer Alaric Tucker of the Englewood Police Department remembers the call. It was for a person with mental illness who refused to take his medication and the situation was escalating….
Life is not always easy. It has a way of pulling the rug out from under our feet and leaving us feeling traumatized, lost and sometimes very isolated. Though…
Join CIT-NJ members from around the state of New Jersey December 12th, 2017 to learn, share, and explore solutions for a better response to mental health crisis. Make plans now…
It takes courage to ask simply and directly, ‘are you OK?’, if concerned about someone’s mental health. What if they’re actually fine? Will they be offended? And what do you…