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YWCA Knoxville, Tennessee Valley celebrate renovated YWCA building

Posted at 4:24 pm October 29, 2018
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The YWCA building is pictured above on Oak Ridge Turnpike. (Submitted photo)

The YWCA building is pictured above on Oak Ridge Turnpike. (Submitted photo)

 

YWCA Knoxville and the Tennessee Valley are celebrating the opening of the renovated YWCA building in Oak Ridge with a ribbon cutting and open house today (Monday, October 29).

The celebration is scheduled from 4:30-7 p.m. at the YWCA building at 1660 Oak Ridge Turnpike.

Assisted by the Oak Ridge Chamber of Commerce, the ribbon-cutting ceremony will begin promptly at 4:30 p.m. with brief remarks by District Attorney General Dave Clark, Pastor Derrick Hammond of Oak Valley Baptist Church, Ridgeview Behavioral Services Chief Executive Officer Brian Buuck, Katatra, a representative from Leadership Oak Ridge, class of 2018, and YWCA representatives, a press release said. Building tours will be offered following the ribbon cutting, and light refreshments will be served. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Community, Community, Slider Tagged With: Alizza Punzalan-Randle, Brian Buuck, CASA of the Tennessee Heartland, Dave Clark, Derrick Hammond, domestic violence, domestic violence services, Maggie McNally, open house, Prevent Child Abuse Tennessee, ribbon-cutting, Ridgeview Behavioral Services, Tennessee Valley, YWCA, YWCA Building, YWCA Knoxville

Crisis intervention training helps save life in Rocky Top

Posted at 2:08 pm April 5, 2017
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Twenty law enforcement personnel graduated from Crisis Intervention Team, or CIT, training on March 10, 2017. The graduates represented Anderson County Sheriff’s Department, Oak Ridge Police Department, Rocky Top Police Department, Anderson County Corrections Office, and Blount Memorial Security. (Submitted photo)

Twenty law enforcement personnel graduated from Crisis Intervention Team, or CIT, training on March 10, 2017. The graduates represented Anderson County Sheriff’s Department, Oak Ridge Police Department, Rocky Top Police Department, Anderson County Corrections Office, and Blount Memorial Security. (Submitted photo)

 

Twenty law enforcement personnel graduated from Crisis Intervention Team, or CIT, training on March 10. The graduates represented Anderson County Sheriff’s Department, Oak Ridge Police Department, Rocky Top Police Department, Anderson County Corrections Office, and Blount Memorial Security.

CIT is an innovative first-responder model of police-based crisis intervention with community, health care, and advocacy partnerships. CIT provides 40 hours of specialized training for problem solving and de-escalating crisis situations with individuals who have a mental illness. Studies show it also improves the safety of patrol officers, consumers, family members, and citizens within the community, a press release said.

“Thanks to the partnership between the Oak Ridge City Police Department, Anderson County Sheriff’s Department, Ridgeview Behavioral Health, NAMI Oak Ridge, the Mental Health Association of East Tennessee, and other community health advocates, our community has better equipped itself with first responders who have an effective set of communication and problem solving skills,” Oak Ridge Police Department Chief James Akagi said in his opening remarks.

So far, the East Tennessee Crisis Intervention Team has trained more than 180 law enforcement personnel, the press release said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Anderson County, Front Page News, Health, Oak Ridge, Police and Fire, Rocky Top, Top Stories Tagged With: Amy M. Purkey, Anderson County Corrections Office, Anderson County Sheriff's Department, Blount Memorial Security, Brian Buuck, Brittany Streetman, Charles R. Crothers, Chelsey Pickens, CIT, crisis intervention, Crisis Intervention Team, crisis situations, David Campbell, Gary Beaty, James Akagi, Jeremy R. Phillips, Joe Harrison, Jonathan P. Bailey, Kurt I. W. Lauen, Mark Whaley, Marty W. Fenton, mental illness, Michael Yates, NAMI-Oak Ridge, Oak Ridge Police Department, Philip Knight, Ray J. Green, Ridgeview Behavioral Health Services, Robert Collins, Rocky Top Police Department, Sam Cochran, Shain Vowell, Shawn L. Bannach, Thomas J. Hartsfield, Todd Johnston, Tyler A. Culver

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