Stark County Mental Health Awareness Training (MHAT) Project - The Stark County Mental Health & Addiction Recovery (StarkMHAR) will lead a multi-organizational partnership to coordinate and implement several evidence-based training initiatives in correlation to the Stark County Mental Health Awareness Training (MHAT) Project. This undertaking requires the involvement and support of multiple organizations and key community stakeholders such as the Canton Police Department, Coleman Professional Services, the Regional Emergency Dispatch (RED) Center, Stark County Chiefs Association, Stark County Sheriff's Office, and The Center for Public Policy and Health (CPPH) at Kent State University. StarkMHAR anticipates holding the following evidence-based trainings: Crisis Intervention Team (CIT), CIT Advanced, CIT Fire/EMS, CIT Dispatcher, CIT Refresher, CIT-Advanced Dispatcher, Mental Health First Aid (MHFA), MHFA-Public Safety (PS), and Verbal Intervention (VI) trainings. Throughout the five-year grant, StarkMHAR plans to hold a total of 158 trainings, in addition to their already robust training calendar. Through these outlined offerings alone, an average of 775 individuals will be trained annually, or 3,876 individuals' total. These law enforcement, Fire/EMS, school staff, local business staff, court workers, 911-operaters, mobile crisis staff, and more will be equipped with the knowledge on how to identify individuals in the community who are experiencing a mental health crisis and assisting them to seek treatment.
