Congratulations to incoming Fiscal Officer Kody Gonzalez in being
honored at the annual Crime Prevention Breakfast and receiving the
Crisis Intervention Team Champion of the Year Award.
This was the first-year awards were given for crisis intervention
teams, which bring together law enforcement, mental health professional,
advocates, people living the mental illness and their families and
other partners to improve community response to people experiencing
mental health crises.
Fiscal Officer Kody Gonzalez was referred to as a “huge advocate”
for the crisis intervention teams in Stark County, James Knight, master
of ceremonies said.
Kody is the project manager for the Stark County Criminal Justice
Information System, a website for records of Stark County Common Pleas
Court and the municipal courts of Canton, Massillon and Alliance.
Kody embedded an electronic version of the crisis intervention team
form into the system that all county police departments can access.
Completed forms go to a mental health agency for client intervention and
stabilization.
“This has streamlined referrals between the law enforcement and
behavioral health system. It has also allowed information sharing
between police departments as they have access to other departments’,
Knight said.
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