Wednesday, 17th November 2010CCT supports the Crisis Intervention Team
By CCT supports the Crisis Intervention Team by generously providing free emergency cellular phones with service
CCT supports the Crisis Intervention Team by generously providing emergency cellular phones.
A small ceremony took place at the CCT Global Communications' (CCT) main office in Road Town on Tuesday, 9th November 2010. Key stakeholders at the event were, Director of the Mental Health Centre, Dr. Virginia Rubaine and General Manager (CCT) Mr. Jose Luis Fernandez, along with Public Relations Managers Mrs. Tamara Archibald-Gill (BVIHSA), and Mrs. Derecia Scatliffe-Thomas (CCT).
During her remarks, Dr. Virginia Rubaine said that she was excited about the kind gesture of CCT to supply cellular phones and service to the volunteers of the Crisis Intervention Team for the next three years. She said. "This support is greatly appreciated as we continue to assist persons in times of tragedy and disaster."
Dr. Rubaine also expressed her sincere gratitude to CCT for their continued support over the last decade. "The eight lines provided by CCT allow us to dispatch, plan and coordinate our response to crises in the Virgin Islands including our far-flung sister islands." Dr. Rubaine said.
On behalf of CCT, General Manager Mr. Jose Luis Fernandez said that this is just one of the many community service outreach initiatives that CCT has fostered for many years by providing free handsets and free local service to vital non-profit services that impact our community. Over the years, CCT has been a tireless advocate of being a community partner that supports not only the Crisis Intervention Team, but other community based groups such as VISAR and the HIV/AIDS Foundation.
The Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) under the auspices of the BVI Health Services Authority via the Community Mental Health Center is a non-profit, open membership group. It is made up of a group of volunteers within the community who have been trained in providing crisis counseling and debriefing for victims and families, witnesses and first responders of any traumatic event.
The CIT responds to events that are typically sudden and intensely distressing; which may be outside of the realm of normal human experience. Such traumatic events will have a strong emotional effect on people whether trained or untrained. Therefore, the sudden unusualness of the incident will have a strong emotional effect and requires intervention. For example, the team may be called to respond to events such as transportation accidents or deaths, industrial accidents or deaths, house fires, acts of terrorism, physical assaults; sudden death of any age, suicides, domestic violence, rapes, murders, and natural disasters.