Community Veterans Engagement Board (CVEB)

March 21, 2018

10:30 AM to 12:30 PM

Shenandoah University

Room 118, Brandt Student Center

703 University Drive, Winchester VA 22601

Welcome & Introductions

• Pledge of Allegiance
• Presentation:  (SLIDES WILL BE SHARED)
  Crisis Intervention Training (CIT) Program Overview

• Donna Trillio CITAC/CIT Supervisor NWCSB - 

• CIT - week long training program - education program to train law enforcement and others how to de escalate and avert from going to the hospital if possible.  
• NWC Service Board - 4 counties and cities within them  President Kennedy in office - deinstitutionalize mental illness - move people out of institutions and back into the community (“drugs” came out to medicate and help those to life normal lives)  - 40 Service Boards in Virginia.
• Up to the service board as to what they do and do not provide  --- to a certain extent. However there are certain things they HAVE to provide like Mental health care management.
• NWC - specializes in Substance abuse and Veterans
• Hampton Roads - has a HUGE focus on Veterans
• Federally MANDATED - but NOT Federally Funded
• TDO transportation - HUGE “issue” for local issue - only ONE state facility on the other side of Richmond. Takes 2 officers out of commision for 2 hours.  (what is TDO)
• “Mental Health Courts” -- Wonderful in Trillows opinion - Loudoun County has just put them into place
• Winchester has just put into place a “Drug Court”  
• 1. Safety Plan - not suicidal, no harm to self or someone else (involve multiple people
• 2. Volunteer to stay - seek
• 3. State step in - magistrate steps in and says they have to stay and get help - they are not able to make that decision on their own
• Liaison for 23 law enforcement agencies.  
• CIT is NOT just law enforcement and Mental Health - Andre Miller comes to give a 90 minute block how to interact with a Veteran. Also a close relationship with the Hospital and other local community partners.
• Jails and Prisons are becoming the new mental institutions in America - This is NOT a good thing! CIT can help divert that issue.
• There HAVE been serious crimes committed when they were mentally ill - “just because they take them to the hospital first does NOT mean they wont get charged also!” - no different than if a bank robber is shot. He needs to have the wound taken care of first and then booked.
• Don and Herman are CIT and CIT trainers
• CIT training objectives: (included in slides)
• One day in Western State Hospital - $800.00
• Program came from Baltimore - kids would come to the program from the the court system  - get 2 hours of education being kicked out of school. Same call - same kid - turned out to be Metal health issues. (Kid kept doing bad things so the nice cop would come see him)
• PACT - are the “most ill” - they do not respond to the traditional treatments - they go to where the people are!!! Psychiatric Doctor will go out to a parking lot if that is what it takes - 6 or 7 people that work as a team. Can have as many as 80 clients
• Takes about 1 ½ years and these people can get on their feet with the consistent help of PACT

• Old Business
• Nominations and voting for vacancies

• Media and Outreach Coordinator - Al Milgivery - Background in journalism - Broadcasting - forcibly retired - radio, TV, public affairs, print journalism, social media?  - wife and kids say I spend too much time on FB - some web design 

• Nate - 1st
• Discussion  - None
• Sherry - 2nd

• Historian -

• Nate - Motion to table  
• Bruce - 2nd

• Vote to amend bylaws (Slides being sent out)

• First Change - Adding Membership
• Second Change - wording in Article II Section I
• Third Change - **Clause was added** -- Add into the description of the treasurer that they HAVE to be able to the bank account and be a signatory - will be the members of the executive board.
• Have the people bonded? Look into this

• March 12th Recap

• 21 businesses attended
• TOV Chamber
• Tim Cook, Lee Becker, Richard Kennedy were in attendance.
• Board has already seen growth as a result of this event

•  New Business

• CVEB Website - need to purchase new domain - NSCVEB.ORG is WRONG - NSVCVEB.org needs to be purchased. (will be talking to Nate offline)
• Empowerment Night Events Proposed Partnership:

• Mind Bender
• Date tentative - 5/18 and 6-8 is location is TBD

• VETS CORNER - Newspapers/VSOs/Newsletter - Womens Round

• Open Discussion / Announcements

• Walk/Run with Team Rubicon
• Operation Tohidu
• Many Upcoming Events - (see newsletter)
• Veteran that Needs help -AmVets - disabled - Husband just went back to work with FedEx, also disabled- behind $3,800.00 … landlord doesn't want to evict so Danielle can not help. Ccap - DAV - SSVS - Andre - Steve Hummer Peer Support Specialists (Jim Vinnable) -
• Team Rubicon just got flooring down for a vietnam war veteran!  
• Needs help with funding for materials to get a railing put up for a veteran - $350 to $400
• Salvation Army - 100th  - April 11th 6-8 - $60 - Speaker Chad Williams.