NEWS RELEASE
November 6, 2025
For immediate release
Media contact: Cara Scarola Hansen
Center for Child Counseling Public Relations Counsel
cara@yourmissionmarketing.com
Center for Child Counseling Named Crisis Intervention Team Community Partner of the Year by PBSO
The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office (PBSO) recently recognized Center for Child Counseling (CFCC) as its Crisis Intervention Team Community Partner of Year at the 2025 PBC Crisis Intervention Team Annual Luncheon.
For more than 10 years, CFCC has helped train PBSO’s law enforcement officers, corrections deputies, communications officers, sponsored recruits, and school resource officers. Each month, CFCC’s staff of mental health providers present on ACEs (adverse childhood experiences), PCEs (positive childhood experiences), and HOPE (healthy outcomes from positive experiences). The team also facilitates the brain architecture game. As a training partner, CFCC is one part of the 40-hour Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training.
“At Center for Child Counseling, we are building trauma-informed communities. When we create trauma-aware adults who understand how trauma versus positive experiences affect a person, we are promoting a culture that provides optimal support for staff. In turn, that promotes the resilience and well-being of children that comes from healthy child-caregiver relationships. We are committed to our partnership with PBSO and training the adults in all organizations on trauma-informed care and the HOPE framework, because we want to give them meaningful tools to build healthier families, schools, and communities,” said Renée Layman, CEO of CFCC.
CIT is an effective law enforcement response program designed for first responders who handle crisis calls involving people with mental illness including those with co-occurring substance use disorders. CIT training emphasizes a partnership between law enforcement, the mental health and substance abuse treatment system, mental health advocacy groups, and consumers of mental health services and their families. CIT is both a training program, and a collaborative effort that builds community partnerships with mental health service providers. This training ensures that deputies are able to safely assess and interact with persons with mental illness in a crisis situation.
Since the start of 2025, CFCC has trained more than 500 PBSO officers.
CFCC provides an array of live and online trauma-informed training options for schools and organizations. For more information, visit: centerforchildcounseling.org/traumainformedcare.
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