This program is a community partnership of law enforcement, mental health and addiction professionals, individuals who live with mental illness and/or addiction disorders, their families, and other partners to improve community responses to mental health crises.
What is Crisis Intervention Team (CIT)?
This includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being.
What is Mental Health?
A condition commonly associated with feelings of sadness, hopelessness, pessimism, or emptiness. (Often associated with suicidal thoughts).
What is Depression?
Law which regulates the services, rights, and liabilities of recipients of mental health and developmental disabilities services in Illinois.
What is the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code (405 ILCS 5/1-100)?
This Chicago Professional Basketball team is known for hoops legend Michael "Air" Jordan
Who are The Chicago Bulls?
CIT originated in 1988 and is associated with this city.
What is Memphis, Tennessee (Memphis Model)?
Talking about being a burden to others, talking about feeling trapped or in unbearable pain, or increased usage of alcohol or drugs are signs of this.
What is Suicidal Thinking?
A symptom associated with seeing or hearing things that do not exist, such as a voice making commands.
What are Hallucinations?
This law prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in various areas including but not limited to employment, transportation, public accommodations, communications, and access to state and local government programs and services.
What is the American's with Disabilities Act?
This Chicago Professional football team started an undrafted division two quarterback this year.
Who are "Da Bears?"
Take steps to calm the situation. Where possible, eliminate emergency lights and sirens, disperse crowds and assume a quiet non-threatening manner when approaching or conversing with the individual. Be patient, polite, calm, courteous, and avoid overreacting. Where violence or destructive acts have not occurred, avoid physical contact, and take time to assess the situation.
What is APD Policy 41.2.25 RESPONDING TO PERSONS WITH MENTAL ILLNESS OR IN CRISIS?
A mental health provided embedded in Addison Police Department that offers case management, crisis intervention and counseling.
What is Northeast DuPage Family and Youth Services (NEDFYS).
A symptom associated with false beliefs that cannot be changed, even when presented with facts?
What are delusions?
Act that Directs 911, 311 and other emergency response centers to transfer calls seeking mental and behavioral health support to the State’s 988 number, unless there is ongoing criminal activity or a threat of violence.
What is Community Emergency Services and Support Act (CESSA) Stephen Edwards Watts ACT: 50 ILCS 754?
This Professional Chicago Hockey Team drafted 18 year-old rookie phenom Connor Bedard.
Who are the Chicago Blackhawks?
A person whose level of distress or mental health symptoms have exceeded the person’s internal ability to manage his/her behavior or emotions. Can be precipitated by any number of things, including an increase in the symptoms of mental illness despite treatment compliance; non-compliance with treatment, including a failure to take prescribed medications appropriately; or any other circumstance or event that causes the person to engage in erratic, disruptive or dangerous behavior that may be accompanied by impaired judgment.
What is a Person in Crisis?
These are the largest reported mental health providers in the United States.
What are Cook County Jail, Los Angeles County Jail, and Rikers Island?
A neurological and developmental disorder that affects how people interact with others, communicate, learn, and behave. Symptoms generally appear in the first 2 years of life.
What is Autism?
A law that makes available a free appropriate public education to eligible children with disabilities throughout the nation and ensures special education and related services to those children.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?
This professional quarterback was the host of Jeopardy and is currently sidelined from quarterbacking the New York Jets.
Who is Aaron Rodgers?
This local provider directly responds to calls using the 988 mental health line.
What is the DuPage County Health Department?
A collection of mental health condition where people have a lifelong pattern of seeing themselves and reacting to others in ways that cause problems. People with these disorders often have a hard time understanding emotions and tolerating distress.
What is a Personality Disorder?
This disorder is associated with the consequences of trauma following living through or seeing a traumatic event, such as war, a natural disaster, sexual assault, physical abuse, or a bad accident.
What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
This Illinois DHS form is utilized to detain an individual for psychiatric evaluation by a qualified examiner.
What is a petition?
This future hall of fame Kansas City Chiefs tight end has been constantly in the media spotlight for his association with music superstar Taylor Swift.
Who is Travis Kelce?