CANTON – Stark Mental Health & Addiction Recovery has produced a video at the Stark County Sheriff s Office to inform other law enforcement agencies about StarkMHAR s crisis-prevention services.
In particular, the agency offers Crisis Intervention Training (CIT) for law enforcement officers and other first responders in partnership with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), and Mobile Response Teams through Coleman Professional Services.
A recent attack on a Canton police officer and the fatal shooting of a fast-food manager in Cuyahoga Falls by men with histories of mental illness underscore the need for more services and crisis training for law enforcement officers, who often are the first people on the scene.