Stories of Experience

We as CIT regularly deal with calls that are (initially) not intended for us. Of course, we try to refer whoever we have on the phone to the appropriate agency as best we can. What we encounter like this? I will take a sample of our files: And surely more examples can be named. CIT […]

It is a relatively quiet Tuesday night when, around 8 p.m., the CIT receives a panicked call from Lena. Lena is 17 and reports being in crisis. She says she has been staying with a friend for some time, but now has to leave there. Then Lena says (read screams) that the CIT needs to

On a rainy Wednesday afternoon at the end of the day, the phone rings at the Crisis Intervention Team (CIT). It is the police who ask for consultation; they have received several reports of a woman wandering, using drugs and causing a nuisance. Although they have found her in several places in the Netherlands in

On a weekday morning, I am just stepping into the building. The smell of coffee can be smelled as I walk past the coffee machine. I set my stuff down by the computer where I think I’ll take a seat that day. I still had plenty of administrative things to do for my side duties

It is Friday night around 10 p.m. when the Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) is called for a “together in acute” by the police. The CIT’s role is to address acute insecurity related to violence in dependency relationships and strives to stop violence and create client support for the use of assistance. This involves a joint

Monday night, 9:30 p.m. I receive a call from the police. There is a crisis situation. A boy hit his father. Father filed a police report. We visit the police station cell complex, where we engage in conversation with the juvenile. We’ll call him Dennis in this story. Dennis lives with his father. He has

A father calls in the middle of the night at 2 a.m. upset. They are at their wit’s end and near despair. He and his partner have been with their autistic son for over 4 hours. He just won’t go to sleep. After dinner, there was an argument over gaming. This got so high that,

Police contact CIT. It’s about an 11-year-old boy. He has been living in foster care for 10 years. For years there was minimal contact between him and his mother. After secretly having had contact, the choice was made to reestablish contact. Unfortunately, this has not gone well recently so he has not been able to

A mother called the police. They are on their way, but not yet on site. Things get out of hand between a mother and daughter (age 10). Daughter is angry and does not calm down. The mother now calls Sietske from the CIT, as this has been advised to her by the social services involved.

It’s Christmas Day when the police call CIT. Nicole and Sietske have evening shifts together. Police are at the scene of a family where a mother is angry and at a loss for words. During the day, the father, took her infant son (5 years old) without permission. She kicks a door and threatens to