Community Emergency Services and Support Act (CESSA) Region 11 Advisory Committee
Meeting Minutes- 06/17/2024- 1:00 PM
Meeting Minutes - Approved by Members 09/16/24
Attendees Present: Eugene Humphrey, Dr. Eddie Markul, Matthew Fishback, Karah Kohler, Kelsey DiPirrro, Jennifer Scahher (attended for Sandra Heidt), Jessica Gimeno, Joseph Schuler
Absentees: Tiffany Patton- Burnside, Cosette Ayele, Jennifer McGowan-Tomke, Carla Orlandini, Pamela Esposito, Jenique Dean, Jonathan Zaentz , Peggy Flaherty
Matthew Tokarz, Nestor Flores
Agenda Items: Introduction, Roll Call, CESSA Update, Discussion & Public Comment.
Call to Order/Introductions:
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Meeting Discussion Highlights:
Roll call and Approval of previous meeting minutes for March Meeting
State updates from Brenda Hampton:
- Asaantewa has transitioned from her position with CESSA and Ms. Brenda Hampton will be in her place at this time.
- Forum on June 11 Orchestrated by the UIC crisis hub. The title of the form is the Behavior health Crisis Continuum in Illinois, Knowledge, innovation, Action We have the power to change our community. The whole impetus of the form is to provide information, innovation and evidence-based services to individuals experiencing behavioral health, crisis. They will have speakers from all over the country who are on the cutting edge of innovation and change, there will be different state of the art leaders nationally on alternative response models, different kind of response models on mobile crisis response teams and how they have been implemented in different areas of the country. Changes that we're going to encounter in the state of Illinois. It's a full day, it starts at 9a, there's going to be a continental breakfast that starts at 8:15a, then it's gonna end the day with a reception and networking.
Initiative Discussion:
- The state issued some draft training protocols for both 911 and 988 as well as 590 providers and they wanted to get our feedback and the feedback is due today.
- Going over the 988 Feedback for the proposed trainings such as provided the same quality of training across the board, making sure there is access to safety for each 988 callers, the need to be culturally responsive, and engaging in self-care as a crisis worker.
- Going over other provide feedback for the trainings before submission of feedback.
- Deciding on whether to have a May monthly meeting or to have meetings every other month. Decision was made based on the work to be done with the Hyperlocal model meetings would continue through June and decision to go every other month will be decided at the June meeting.
- While the city doesn't have rural communities, there are differences between the north side, the city, the south side, even within the north side of the city, it's not all homogenous. There's a different pocket of the city that have unique needs, so I think it'd be great to tease those out and make sure we're addressing them.
590 Crisis Care System /Mobile Crisis Response Teams:
- Self-care for the staff
- Trainings will take place and be provided to individuals that are going in high-risk areas and that they're getting a little bit more training in regards to de-escalation.
- Responsibility aspects of the training, more definitive information being provided, provided to 590 providers in regard to the training of the staff on the core courses, more details in regard to what exactly does that mean.
- Are the agency's going to be responsible for or how the agencies will be responsible for documenting the trainings and.
988 :
- Way to actively engage and promote connection with the callers and alternatives to suicide it's a great training for peer providers, but there are some concerns about non peer providers receiving this training without having a plan addressing education on the differences in self-disclosure for peer providers and crisis counselors.
- And knowledge of local community services and supports, developing community relationship training seems to be more appropriate for administrators of 988 centers as opposed to call takers. training for the crisis counselors would be most useful that spoke to the mental health and crisis system care in Illinois entry points, in how to communicate with certain providers when there's a universal SOP or standard operating procedure.
- Through resiliency training and practical strategies to use during shifts, other than just general self-secure strategies. It is important if you're taking these calls, you need to be able to really keep yourself grounded during your shift as well.
- Chat and text utilization if used, should be used in centers that have that ability.
- Trainings for cultural humility, implicit bias and identifying and responding to medical emergencies.
- Responding to individuals with trauma, human trafficking, motivational interviewing, a non-suicidal self-injury and familiar callers and the threats of harm, homicidal adiation.
Hyperlocal Level:
- The intent and purpose of the hyper local regional model is of course to look at preexisting, communities across the region and try to bring those together, be it, your PSAPs or EMS's
- You know, the fire department advocates could also be included, looking at smaller community mental health boards.
- So the breakdown and recommended implementation structure is as follow the RAC Co Chairs would be responsible for communicating out, in our case it would be the city model, that's of all of the different entities would break down their meetings so that they are, more localized and then communicate back up to the RAC so that we can share out, you within our regional committee and efforts and then also communicating them up to the statewide advisory committee.
- A few things come out of this model, one who has identified, who have we identified and will be looking to work with, as we try to pilot and utilize the hyper local model. And secondly, have we convened the team that we can recommend membership and participation? And finally, have we held any meetings or what else could we do to execute and begin to develop this model out if we so and choose to do, that this is the case in the direction that we want to go in.
Chicago CARE Pilot:
- No new updates at this time
Questions from the Committee:
Public Comment:
Next Steps:
- Next meeting May 20, 2024
Meeting adjourned at 1:55PM
