New Challenge Set up To Teach Law Enforcement on Substance Use Ailment

Ocean County, NJ – Ocean County Prosecutor Brillhimer has announced the creation of the Michael Camillus Job.  The Job, named for St. Michael, the patron saint of law enforcement and St. Camillus, patron saint of the sick, aims to teach associates of the regulation enforcement community about compound abuse condition.  Through the Challenge, pupil/officers receive a certificate of completion in dependancy reports from Ocean County University.  The eighteen-credit score certificate of completion enables the college student/officers to sit for a state board test and carry out clinical hrs in buy to receive their Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CADC) designation. The Michael Camillus Task has been made doable by a partnership with Ocean County College or university via grant funding by means of the New Jersey Place of work of the Attorney General’s Procedure Aiding Hand. The target of this  Project is to instill regulation enforcement officers with a significant stage knowledge about dependancy so they can bring this details back again to their departments and to use it constructively when encountering people today with substance abuse diseases in their communities.  We have been performing carefully with Ocean County Faculty to put together this initial group of pupils/officers for an revolutionary educational knowledge that is the first of its variety for regulation enforcement in New Jersey,” Prosecutor Billhimer mentioned.

Michael Camillus Challenge inaugural course is comprised of fourteen scholar/officers representing five various legislation enforcement businesses in Ocean County.  The Job features university student/officers towards the beginning, middle and ends of their occupations.  This Job will permit these scholar/officers to begin properly battling addiction related stigma inside their personal companies and generate property the great importance of early intervention with regard to substance use disorder,” Billhimer said. Roseann Bar, Dean, College of Organization and Social Sciences at Ocean County Higher education remarked, “I’ve been psyched about this partnership with the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office environment from working day just one.  These folks have an exceptional skillset and now we have the ability to boost legislation enforcement instruction so they can do even a lot more to serve their local community.

Prosecutor Billhimer commends Supervising Assistant Prosecutor Renee White, the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Place of work Specific Offenders Device, Ocean County College and Ocean Mental Health Solutions for their collaborative efforts relative to Michael Camillus’s results and for doing the job tirelessly to ensure that associates of legislation enforcement have dependancy certain education and instruction to keep on the battle towards stigma with regard to substance use ailment.