Crisis Intervention Team Training Marks 500th-Plus Graduation (Joseph Trolian)

March 16, 2019

Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training began in fall of 2006 in Richland County. Building on a collaboration between National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) of Richland County, Richland County Mental Health and Recovery Services Board, Mansfield Police Department and Richland County Sheriff’s Department. According to Executive Director of the Richland County Mental Health and Recovery Services Board, Joseph Trolian. When the CIT program first started in 2006, Joe Trolian employed as the Clinical Services Director of the Board. This critical program was a joint collaborative of professionals from treatment agencies, county departments and some out-of-county help. Fast forward to 2019 and the CIT program has now trained over five hundred first responders.

As Executive Director of the Mental Health and Recovery Services Board, Joe Trolian states the program runs like a well-oiled machine with many seasoned presenters, and collaborating with seasoned actors and volunteers from the Mansfield Playhouse for the role plays. Christ Ellis-Trolian stated that as an instructor for Criminal Justice, she is excited to see what is taught in class being reinforced in a program like this. Trolian enjoys participating throughout the week and seeing how officers realize the practicality of looking at interactions with people with mental illness differently.

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