If you or a loved one are experience a mental health crisis and need to call 911, you can ask the dispatcher to send a CIT officer. All CIT trained officers should be wearing their CIT pins.
If you have had a positive and impactful interaction with an officer, dispatcher, or fire/ems personnel, visit namiwoodcounty.org/crisis-intervention-team/
to nominate them by April 5th for recognition.
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Our office will close at 1 pm today, Friday, March 29th, in observance of Good Friday. We will return to regular business hours on Monday, April 1st.
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While the training of police officers is the most visible component of CIT programs, it is only one piece of a multi-level collaborative community effort. Nonetheless, the importance of the effective training of police officers cannot be underestimated. An important concept to emphasize to officers at the very beginning of the CIT training is that it is not meant to replace anything they have learned as officers. Police officers are always officers first. CIT training is meant to give officers additional tools to use when they are in the field interacting with individuals who may be in crisis.
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There's still time to get your NW Ohio Coffee Trail! bit.ly/NWOHIOCOFFEETRAIL
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NAMI Wood County's Peer and Family Support Group is cancelled for this evening, Thursday, March 28, 2024. The group will meet again on Thursday, April 11, 2024. Please visit our website to stay up to date on all of our programs. www.namiwoodcounty.org
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Join us for Nite Out with NAMI Book Club! We will be discussing the book, "Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself" by Kristin Neff, PhD. This book that offers exercises and action plans for dealing with every emotionally debilitating struggle, be it parenting, weight loss, or any of the numerous trials of everyday living.
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