NAMI TENNESSEE

The crisis intervention team (cit) in tennessee program is made possible through the state of tennessee via the tennessee department of mental health and substance abuse services. The grant funds help position nami tennessee as a convenor to ensure that a cross-sector, inter-agency approach is taken to expanding cit across the state. This includes maintaining a quarterly statewide cit task force, hosting cit train the trainer trainings in each region and providing training to cit community coalitions. Nami tennessee held 69 cit informational meetings, trained 43 first responders as trainers, and trained nearly 600 first responders in cit. - continued on schedule o