5/20/2025 - 1 PM EST / 12 PM CST

Team Safety: A Shared Responsibility

In co-response and crisis response, everyone plays a vital role in team safety. This month's conversation amongst peers will explore safety considerations, protocols, and training. Please come prepared to discuss the gaps you're seeing or the questions you have. We'll leverage our collective strength to learn from each other.

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4/17/2025 - 2 PM EST / 1 PM CST

Working with Adult Protective Services

Co-responder teams regularly respond to calls involving older adults in a behavioral health crisis and turn to adult protective services (APS) for assistance, with varying degrees of success. Similarly, APS turns to behavioral health for assistance with meeting client needs. In this Coffee Break, you will learn from an expert about what APS is, its limitations, and how to build relationships. Come prepared to ask questions you have about APS and elder abuse generally.

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3/19/2025 - 1 PM EST / 12 PM CST

The Co-Response Lane: Navigating Expectations and Setting Scope

External organizations like schools, colleges, healthcare facilities, and even strong neighborhood and community groups often have expectations of what a co-responder can or should provide. In this conversation amongst peers, we’ll discuss the importance of building relationships with these stakeholders to navigate their expectations and communicate scope of service for co-responders.

Come ready to discuss:

• Your considerations for scope of service for co-responders
• Policies and procedures to guide co-responders within scope
• How you engage stakeholders to set expectations and clearly communicate.

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2/18/2025 - 1 PM EST / 12 PM CST

Co-Responder Training: Adapting the FTO Program for Clinicians

Whether you have one co-responder or 20, quality training is essential to creating and maintaining a successful program. Johnson County (KS) Mental Health Center’s Co-Responder Supervisors, Jen Melby and Morgan Knight, will share how they have adapted the original co-responder training processes to mirror a Field Training Officer (FTO) program.

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12/10/2024 - 2 PM EST / 1 PM CST

Olanzapine in the Field: A New Method of Diversion

In some cases, the Round Rock Fire Department administers a low dose of the antipsychotic Olanzapine in the field to avoid hospitalization and begin early treatment for psychosis. We’ll discuss implementation and early outcomes of the protocol along with assessment, de-escalation techniques, treatment, safety planning, and case studies.

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11/14/2024 - 12 PM EST / 11 AM CST

Microaggressions and Cultural Competence in Co-Response

We'll discuss the ways microaggressions can subtly undermine effective co-response, and the importance of cultural competence in addressing these challenges. We'll cover everything from co-response team dynamics to interactions with clients. Our goal is to share practical strategies you can use to foster inclusivity and build respect.

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10/22/2024 - 1 PM EST / 12 PM CST

Threat Assessment & Management

We’ll talk about the role of co-response in threat assessment and management. We hope you’ll walk away with an idea of how your co-responder team can be a key part of the assessment process and ongoing management of people of concern.

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9/10/2024 - 1 PM EST / 12 PM CST

Suicide Prevention

September is Suicide Prevention Month and on World Suicide Prevention Day, we’ll discuss specialized responses to suicidal crisis, suicide screening, and safety planning. We hope you’ll walk away with ways to support your team after a critical incident related to suicide.

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8/1/2024 - 1 PM EST / 12 PM CST

Co-Responder Resilience & Self Care

This month, we’ll host a conversation amongst peers to discuss strategies to support co-responders in the field and to avoid burnout. Come prepared to share your self-care strategies and the ways you build resilience within your roles. We hope you’ll take away some new self-care practices.

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7/17/2024 - 1 PM EST / 12 PM CST

First Responder Culture Trainings

This month's webinar will give an overview of how Sergeant Robert McKeirnan of Olathe (KS) Police Department collaborated with his co-responders to develop a “Cop Culture” presentation in effort to cross-train the local mental health center staff on working with officers to help understand each other and build stronger partnerships. This webinar is applicable for all first responders and co-responders to learn key components of this training and how to take it back to your community.

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6/20/2024 - 1 PM EST / 12 PM CST

Four Layers of Collaborative Response

Dr. Margie Balfour will explain four layers of collaborative response and how this way of thinking can enhance your team's crisis response. Dr. Balfour's presentation is in partnership with Tucson Police Sgt. Jason Winsky, who will join to describe the "second responder" initiatives his mental health support team is leading.

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5/7/2024 - 12 PM EST / 11 AM CST

School-Based Youth Crisis Response

This month, we'll host a webinar to give ICRA members an in-depth look at a school-based youth crisis response team. The Larimer County Sheriff's Office will share how this model works, what the agency has learned, and how you can start thinking about this area of co-response.

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4/15/2024 - 3 PM EST / 2 PM CST

Planning for National Co-Responder and Crisis Responder Week

In April, we'll host a conversation amongst peers to give ICRA members an early opportunity to discuss ways to celebrate National Co-Responder and Crisis Responder Week, which begins on September 16, 2024.

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3/19/2024 - 4 PM EST / 3 PM CST

Co-Response & Liability

This month, we'll focus on the liability at stake during co-response. Listen to one clinician’s story about the intersections of liability coverage and multi-agency engagement. The clinician will share how this became a case study in program development and policy, so that you can take new ideas back to your team.

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2/15/2024 - 2 PM EST / 1 PM CST

Diversion Programs

Join us for a conversation amongst peers! We’ll talk about how programs focus on diverting people from the criminal justice system, jail, and emergency rooms. Come prepared to share what sets your program apart and what you’d like to learn from others!

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