On December 1, we celebrated the inaugural TRI-CIT Awards. This event honors the Northland Crisis Intervention Team (CIT), a community partnership of law enforcement, mental health providers, individuals who live with mental illness and/or substance use disorders, their families, treatment courts and other community stakeholders. Thank you to our own Peggy Gorenflo, Mental Health chair of Tri-CIT, and all others who put on this incredible event recognizing those who take steps every day to improve community responses to mental health crises.
Congratulations to those who were recognized this year:
CIT Instructor of the Year
David Strother
Community Partner of the Year
Amy Ashelford
Consumer of the Year
Elizabeth Wilson
Telecommunicator of the Year
Communications Supervisor Jerry Clark, Liberty Police Department
Peer Supporter of the Year
Sergeant Jeff Harman, Clay County Sheriff’s Office
Detention Personnel of the Year
Lieutenant Tracy Wade, Clay County Sheriff’s Office
CIT Coordinator of the Year
Sergeant Jim Morgan, Smithville Police Department
Youth CIT Officer of the Year
Corporal Bear McCulley, Clay County Sheriff’s Office
CIT Officer of the Year
Sergeant Cassie Cramer, Excelsior Springs Police Department
Ray County CIT Officer of the Year
Sheriff Scott Childers, Ray County Sheriff’s Office
Platte County CIT Officer of the Year
Officer Aimee DiGeronimo, Riverside Police Department
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