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Trainers and survivors warn that abrupt DMH takeover of Team 2 risks losing relationships and lived-experience component
Summary
Kristen, the creator of Team 2, told the committee Vermont Care Partners was not informed of a Department of Mental Health plan to assume the program; trainers and people with lived experience urged the committee to secure a transition plan to preserve regional instructor networks and peer involvement.
Kristen, who created Team 2 and coordinates the training under a contract held by Vermont Care Partners, told the House Health Care committee that Team 2 is a 12-year-old, scenario-based, multidisciplinary training that brings EMTs, police, mental-health clinicians, dispatchers and other first responders together for regionally delivered sessions.
"This is a voluntary training in Vermont…we run through three scenarios during the day," Kristen said, describing the program’s regional delivery, a steering committee of state and local partners, and the central role of people with lived experience in those sessions.
Kristen told lawmakers she learned the Department of Mental Health plans to take…
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