03
April
9:00 am — 5:00 pm
Paramus Life Safety Building
Paramus Life Safety Building, 1 Carlough Dr., Paramus, NJ, 07652, United States
$125
Loading Events

CIT-NJ is offering a 8hr course for Telecommunicators April 3, 2025 in Bergen County, NJ. This is approved by CIT staff & the State of NJ 9-1-1 Office of Emergency Telecommunications for 8 CTE’S.

The course is an effort to improve collaboration within the CIT-NJ program and build partnerships with police, mental health, & family members who’s loved one experiences a mental health crisis. COST is $125

(We accept purchase orders, check or cash payments)

If paying via purchase order email CIT-NJ Director Edward Dobleman

[email protected]

This course will give a Telecommunicators the essential tools and education needed to help a caller in crisis or that may have a mental illness or disability.

After this course you will have a better understanding of how to handle crisis situations and be able to decipher a call and the caller’s needs by knowing the correct questions to ask and how to best communicate with first responders, and mental health professionals and families/individuals in crisis.

EXPECTED OUTCOMES OF THIS TRAINING:

* Introduced to the CIT-NJ Program

* Learn about State/County resources

* Gain new active listening skills

* Recognize a mental health crisis

* Dispatch the proper resources

* Learn about mental illness

* Verbally de-escalate callers

* Certification and 8 CTE’s

Register before February 26, 2025 and

Receive a free CIT-NJ Bergen County Dispatcher Shirt.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.

Details

Date:
April 3
Time:
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Cost:
$125
Organizer:
CIT-NJ Center of Excellence Program
Phone:
856 938-9918
Email:
edobleman@legacytreatment.org
Organizer Website:
View Organizer Website