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Needham CCIT team presents quarterly data: mental‑health contacts, hospital transports and outreach
Summary
Needham’s Community Crisis Intervention Team (CCIT) team reviewed quarterly outreach and response data, reporting dozens of mental‑health calls with a substantial share resulting in hospital transport and ongoing follow‑up work by social‑work staff and Riverside mobile crisis.
The Needham Board of Health received a quarterly briefing on the Community Crisis Intervention Team (CCIT) and associated outreach, hospital transports and follow‑up work across town.
Carol (public‑health staff) and Jessica “Jess” Moss, assistant director at the Council on Aging, outlined the program’s history and partnerships. Carol said the CCIT model began in Needham in 2015 as a multi‑disciplinary effort among public‑health staff, police and fire to intervene earlier in high‑risk cases and coordinate services. She said the program later expanded with a drug‑prevention grant and a memorandum of understanding to embed an emergency‑services social worker from Riverside, who can access clinical records and arrange…
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