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http://www.mentalhealthcrisis.org/

Mental

Health

Crisis

Response

Institute

A Program of the

Barbara Schneider Foundation

2419 Nicollet Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55404

Phone: 612.801.8572 | Fax: 612.871.0432

admin@mentalhealthcrisis.org

The Mental Health Crisis Response Institute, MHCRI, brings all the Barbara Schneider Foundation’s training programs together to strengthen the overarching themes of our trainings. MHCRI grows BSF’s training mission by partnering with expert trainers and local agencies to address the concrete needs of those who encounter individuals struggling with a mental illness.

"Your efforts have improved the lives of people with mental illness and helped others better understand the challenges of mental illness so all people can be treated equally, with dignity and respect.”

Richard W. Stanek, Hennepin County Sheriff

“We appreciate BSF’s training approach and support their efforts to encourage collaboration between criminal justice and mental health in mental health crisis response.”

Virginia K. Lane, Executive Director
School of Law Enforcement & Criminal Justice Metropolitan State University

Register online below or contact us to learn about other trainings.
Bring us to your agency for a customized training.

Crisis Intervention Team/Mental Health
Response for jail staff

November, 2010
Hennepin County Public Safety Facility, 401 South 4th Av, Minneapolis, 55415

Subtitle
This 4 day CIT-style training for jail staff and sheriff deputies will be provided by the Barbara Schneider Foundation and hosted by the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office.
See detailed description.

Registration fees are $360.00 per person

For future training information, please complete the Training Request Form,
or call BSF Executive Director, Mark Anderson, (612) 801-8572 for further information.

Barbara Schneider Foundation Training Partners

Patti Kressly, MA, Counseling Psychology, BA Psychology, Associate’s Degree in Law Enforcement,

Owner, Pro-Crisis LLC. Retired police officer, 13 years with South St. Paul PD in patrol, investigation, taught DARE, Dakota County Drug Task Force. In 2006, was trained in Crisis Intervention by the Minneapolis Police Department and has led many trainings with law enforcement officers, EMS and detention deputies around Minnesota. Has practical provider experience with individuals who have severe persistent mental illness’, developmentally delayed individuals with mental illness’ and developmentally delayed individuals who were convicted sex offenders. Member of the MN CIT Officers Association, President, Metro Critical Incident Stress Management Team and MCIS peer counselor and executive board member.

Jonathan Bundt, MA, LMFT, owner, MASA Consulting. A skilled and licensed mental health professional trainer. Has board certification in traumatic stress and crisis response. He has worked in the mental health and law enforcement field for 25 years and has run his own consultation company since 1995. His broad experience includes: inpatient mental health settings with Fairview Child/Adolescent/Adult Crisis Units; outpatient chemical dependency treatment programs, and in many outpatient mental health clinics; active member of the Minneapolis Police-SWAT team,trainer and on-scene support advisor where he specializes in training crisis/hostage negotiators; consulting and training with local, regional and national police and fire departments, Department of Corrections and Health, Emergency Managers, Northwestern University Center for Public

Safety and the FBI.

Crisis Company specializes in training their professional role players to be experts in the accurate portrayal of adults and children in crisis and/or suffering from mood, thought or personality disorders.
15 years of experience with the Police and Sheriff’s Departments in New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, Oregon, Minnesota and Arizona in training for Crisis Intervention Teams, Cadets, SWAT Teams, Hostage Negotiators and Dispatchers, EMS, Nurses, Detention and Corrections, US Department of Energy, basic and advanced hostage negotiation exercises, US Department of State’s Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program to lend training support in their VIP Security, Weapons of Mass Destruction and Mass Casualty Programs.