A collaborative model of a county crisis intervention team: the Lake County experience.

A model is introduced for the classification of crisis intervention and disaster services as being clinic-based, ad hoc, school-oriented, disaster service based and integrative. An example is presented of an integrative-collaborative model that was developed in Lake County, Ohio to cope with situations of suicide, accidental death or natural disaster when they occur in rural areas and small towns. The Community Crisis Intervention Team (CCIT) was developed with characteristics specific to a collaborative model. The distinctive qualities of the CCIT are identified and discussed within the context of a case study of a postvention in a school setting following adolescent suicide.