Chris Roup

Chris Roup is the Director of Programs for Crisis Response Programs and Training, a corporation that provides technical assistance for crisis response systems and training at all crisis response intercept points. Recently, she was Director of Programs for CIT International. She has been involved with CIT, crisis intervention teams, programs for the past 10 years. She is currently a master instructor for Crisis Response and Intervention Training (CRIT): Train-the-Trainer, and Crisis Call Training for Emergency Communication Centers: Train-the-Trainer; both programs of CRPT.

As a Certified CIT Coordinator, Chris has participated in multiple Sequential Intercept Model mapping processes contributing as a key stakeholder for CIT Steering Committees. She has co-coordinated 30+ CIT training classes for law enforcement and other first responder agencies delivering of the Memphis Model CIT training for over 630 officers for 17 agencies throughout California. She was Executive Director of the NAMI Fresno, National Alliance on Mental Illness, for 8 years. Chris provides mental health education to various partners of criminal justice system, local school districts to teachers, administrators and students, and faith communities. Christina has 35+ years of community benefit organization leadership, serving as a board member and executive staff leadership.

Prior to executive leadership with NAMI Fresno, Chris spent over 20 years in the banking industry as a Vice President specializing in relationships with community benefit organizations. She is currently serving as President of California CIT Association and just recently completed serving as an executive board member of NAMI California. Prior to leaving California in 2023, Christina was an appointed as a commissioner for the Fresno County Juvenile Justice Commission. She is a certified instructor for Adult and Youth Mental Health First Aid. In addition, she is a leader for several NAMI signature programs: Family to Family, Family Support Groups, Peer to Peer, Connection Recovery Support Group, and a lead presenter for all Ending the Silence modules.

Brandon Behan

Middletown Police Department

Officer Behan has been a police officer with Middletown for 10 years. He has been a member of the Middletown Police Department CIT Team as well as Special Response Team. He is the proud father of a one year son. During his free time Officer Behan enjoys gardening, lifting weights, and hiking.

Anthony Grande

North Providence Police Department

Anthony Grande has been a police officer in North Providence since 2016. Prior to being an officer, he received a bachelors degree from Rhode Island College in psychology and later a Master's Degree from Salve Regina University in Administration of Justice. He began working at Butler Hospital as a mental health worker on the alcohol and drug inpatient unit and later transferred to the adult intensive treatment unit. Officer Grande decided at age 27 that he wanted to become a police officer. After becoming an officer, he began participating in trainings within the department to bridge the gap between his mental health background and his current police officer career. He attended a CRT instructor course, attended the CIT training, received his certificate from the FBI for hostage/crisis negotiations, is on the peer support team within department, a field training officer, and has assisted in teaching new recruits in the mental health portion at the Rhode Island Municipal Police Academy. Due to the increase of individuals in mental health crisis, he hopes to continue his career teaching new officers the role in the mental health field and ways to improve relations between officers and individuals with mental health disorders.  

Eli McGurie-Kreuger

Johnston Police Department

Prior to his time in law enforcement, he received a bachelor's degree in justice studies from Rhode Island College, then graduated from the Rhode Island Municipal Police academy in May of 2022. Upon completion of the academy, he was the recipient of the Commander Raymond J. Shannon Leadership Award. Ptlm. Eli McGuire-Krueger has been a member of the CIT program since his completion of the training in September of 2023.He is a strong believer that this training is imperative to law enforcement and helps to establish not only bonds and rapport with individuals in crisis, but also with the community as a whole. In his free time he enjoy spending time with his family, golfing, and fishing.

Craig Stanley

Chief - South Kingstown Emergency Medical Services

With over 38 years of experience in fire/EMS, Chief Craig E. Stanley is a highly accomplished and dedicated leader. Beginning his career with the Narragansett Fire Department as a call firefighter/EMT. Chief Stanley began his paramedic career in 1987 with Dekalb County EMS in Meto-Atlanta, Georgia. Chief Stanley retired as Assistant Chief with Gwinnett County Fire/EMS located in Metro-Atlanta, Georgia.

After retiring from the fire department, Chief Stanley has held leadership positions in the private sector overseeing EMS operations in Atlanta and implementing 911 operations in Dade County, Georgia, and Marion County, Tennessee. Chief Stanley has held paramedic instructor positions and is a legal consultant for several law firms in Atlanta, Georgia. Chief Stanley is currently the Chief of EMS for the Town of South Kingstown, Rhode Island.

Megan Clingham

Mental Health Advocate for State of Rhode Island

Meg Clingham graduated from Rhode Island College and Catholic University School of Law. She then started her career as an assistant Public Defender, where she worked for 16 years in Family, District and Superior Court. She then briefly worked at the Child Advocate’s office. Then, she was appointed as Mental Health Advocate by Governor Chaffee in 2012.  

Meg has been interested in and advocating for first responder training in mental health since her days as a Public Defender, and have been a proponent of the CIT model since she learned of it at the beginning of her tenure as Mental Health Advocate.

Alison Turner

The Providence Center

Alison earned her MS from Johnson & Wales University in 2018 and has accumulated eight years of experience in the mental health field. Her career spans various settings, including inpatient hospitals, partial hospital programs, and substance abuse outpatient treatment programs. However, her primary focus has been crisis intervention within the community.

For the past six years, she has served as an embedded crisis clinician with police departments in South County, RI. In this role, she has expanded the program and customized her approach to meet the needs of each community. Alison's position is unique as it is the first multijurisdictional role in The Providence Center’s history of collaboration with police departments.

During her tenure, she gained valuable insights into mental health symptoms identification by officers and built a strong level of trust within each department. Integrating a clinician into these departments has greatly enhanced the effectiveness of mental health education and intervention.